The chart below, made by Statista from Shareaholic research, shows Facebook is king of the traffic referrals among Shareaholic's user base.
Pinterest comes in second, way out in front of much older Twitter.
We think Pinterest is just getting started as a commercial traffic driver, so this doesn't surprise us.
The Shareaholic article covers the rest of the pack too-...
Posted: November 4, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
Meg Whitman recently made some strong statements about 3D printing for HP in Bangkok. I dunno about you, but when Meg Whitman swings her lady-business around, I take it seriously.
Also, HP Labs has a project called RAGNAROK (Research on Advancing Glass & Non-organic Applications to Recreate Objects & Kinetics)!!!!! You can read an interesting abstract on the project's work...
Posted: October 28, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
British startup Satago is a crowdseeded app to get freelancers and small businesses paid on time.
We don't know how it'll do, but from a marketing standpoint, this image (via TechCrunch) is pure gold. Anyone who has ever been self-employed or run a small business knows exactly what young Scottish CEO Steven Renwick's t-shirt feels like. It's been expressed by every creative who...
When Pinterest was valued at 2.5 billion in February, there was a lot of uproar on tech sites, and there were those who said it was a ridiculous valuation.
We weren't among them- it's our contention that Pinterest is pure, golden genius for sellin stuff. On September 19, Pinterest announced its first serious monetization strategy, Promoted Pins. On October 9th, they began testing. Oddly...
Posted: October 21, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
Does food delivery need to be disrupted?
Can technology make it possible for busy families to eat healthy, affordable meals? Some people think so.
Anson Tsui and Steven Hsiao are a couple of smarty-pants Cal grads, already known as the kings of late-night food delivery for UC Berkeley.
After graduating in 2009, they started what can only be described as an empire of "late...
Google recently announced the launch of an entirely new algorithm called Hummingbird.
Hummingbird isn't an update, like Panda and Penguin, but a whole search new tech, focused on "semantic search". It's mobile-first, conversational, and fast, and it seems to be working remarkably well. How can we tell it's performing well? Because the internet isn't on fire. When Google...
Posted: October 7, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
It's Instagram-Getty. We'd like to see this succeed. Anything that makes content creators money is a good thing, and this seems so incredibly obvious. Why doesn't AP Images have this?
Imagine a microlabor force of flash-snap-crowds, a new generation of stringers who gather at news-worthy events and joust for the best image, then instantly sell it.
(And perhaps gang up to...
Posted: September 19, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
Today Ben Silbermann, CEO and co-founder of Pinterest, announced to users that Pinterest is launching ads. Promoted Pins, to be precise.
But we love Pinterest so much, and believe in its value to businesses so much, that we don't even mind. As users, Pinterest has proved itself to an incredible tool for surfacing things that are Relevant to Our Interests, and it's actually possible...