Pinterest also a victim of Russia-linked political posts
Russia’s involvement in last year’s US presidential election is becoming clearer by the day. Earlier in the week, Google revealed that Kremlin bought some ads worth about $100,000 from YouTube, Gmail and Google Search to influence the election won by Donald Trump. Visual bookmarking site, Pinterest has also come out to explain how its website was used by Russia to influence the election. Apparently Pinterest had inadvertently helped...
Pinterest rolls out ability to zoom inside Pins
Pinterest is going the Instagram way by launching a feature that will let you pinch a photo to zoom in and out on various Pins. Instagram, among several other online services have almost similar features—and will continue the company’s goal of keeping its service competitive. The plan here is to make its platform one of the most attractive for high-quality photos and videos with emphasis on products. It has increasingly developed into...
Pinterest adds Lens to home feed
Pinterest is forging ahead with plans to make it easier for you to search and discover your favorite pins. The world’s catalogue of ideas on Monday added Lens to its home field. By adding Lens, a search and visual discovery tool to home field, you can now search for pins through the new search bar at the top of your home feeds or tap the Lens camera to launch visual field. For now, the update is only available to iOS users, but there...
Pinterest Updates Lens To Recommend Outfit Ideas
Have you seen Clueless? It’s a 1995 teen comedy movie starring Alicia Silverstone. There was a scene in it that Alicia picked out an outfit of the day from her collection through a nifty software. Although it’s a useful software for fashionistas, it’s proven to be difficult to copy in the real world. However, Pinterest stated that it’s getting closer to it. The app launches an update to its Lens, which is a visual search program....
Pinterest adds autoplay video ads to Home Feed
Pinterest is taking its drive to earn more revenue from ads this year by adding autoplay video ads to Home Feed. You know what that means; more revenue for the company, and more opportunities to “catch up” with a few other social media companies that have adopted similar feature or method of revenue generation to their services. The autoplay video ads will run in few places like the user search results, and the home feeds, Recode...