Source: http://www.quora.com/Pinterest-Acquisition-Offers-Interest
How to slow Pinsanity.
Nothing gets tech bloggers more hot and bothered than the next new social media thing, and right now that thing is Pinterest.
The digital scrapbooking startup has all the right ingredients: Rapid user adoption (11 million unique visitors last month), big-name VC backers (Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, etc.) and
Apple could be more social. How successful is Ping. They could afford it. Imagine Pinterest integration direct into iPhone / iPad. And Apple Pin TV!
This is a follow on question to: Facebook-Instagram Acquisition (April 2012)
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Clearly Facebook has ongoing conversations with any successful social service. Given Facebook's failure to become a social commerce juggernaut (Zuckerberg has gone on record claiming social commerce on Facebook would be huge), Pinterest's growing success in this arena, and Facebook's recent $1B p...
