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Pinterest Developers, After Years Of Waiting, Can Take Hope
Jun 18th
The developer community has a message for Pinterest: what’s taking so long?
Ever since March 2012, the image-sharing network has promised developers an API. And it’s in demand – according to ProgrammableWeb, the Pinterest API profile is the most frequently viewed page on the site, revealing the community’s anticipation for the feature.
Whatever the reason, the lack of API access from Pinterest is not sitting well with the developer community.
Promises But Little Progress
An API, or application programming interface, is a group of requirements that permit one device to talk to another. They’re essential for developers who want to build applications on top of an existing site’s functionalities.
Most social networks have wised up to how vital APIs can be for innovative features. After Twitter launched in March 2006, it only took the company six months to release a public API. Facebook’s came less than a year later, in May 2007.
As it approaches its fourth anniversary, Pinterest is no longer the newest social network on the block, and still no API. Any particular reason?
A Pinterest spokesperson told ReadWrite the company is being “thoughtful” about the release. That’s no less vague than the comment a spokesperson gave me when I visited Pinterest HQ last September, that the API was “in the works.”
That’s not to say, however, that there hasn’t been any progress at all. In May, Pinterest launched a Developer Site as a resource for site owners and developers who are building with existing Pinterest tools, like the Pin It button and rich pins. The week of the launch the site even had a pinboard for API documentation, a pinboard that now leads to a 404.
There’s also a Google form developers can fill out to become the first to know about updates to the Pinterest API. However, since signing up on this form after the first announcement in March 2012, I haven’t heard a peep.
Why We Need It Now
Without a public API, there’s only one way to create applications that work on top of Pinterest – data scraping, the automated gathering of data through a site’s interface. This is exactly what existing Pinterest applications are doing now.
Repinly, a Pinterest statistics and ranking site, is one example. According to founder Rami Madi, the lack of an API has forced him to get creative.
“Since we don’t use an API, we crawl Pinterest and we index the information of top pinners, popular boards and trending pins,” Madi said in an email.
But without an API, Madi’s data is only accurate up to a point. While an API would allow Repinly to communicate with Pinterest in real time; data scraping only updates his resources hourly. The top pins on Repinly will not be up-to-the-minute. And no matter how much Madi perfects the tool, there’s no way to really improve without an API. That’s to say nothing of how labor-intensive and time-consuming data scraping makes Madi’s job.
Centered around window shopping, Pinterest is an exceptionally lucrative social network and there’s no shortage of developers who want to build applications for it. But even the best developers will have accuracy problems until the API is released.
How Much Longer?
One of Pinterest’s newest hires may be a sign that the API could finally be on the way. In June, the company hired John Yi to head “Marketing Developer Partnerships.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Yi spent the last four years at Facebook, where he appears to have been heavily involved in API integration. If that’s the case, it could be that Pinterest has hired him to do the same thing.
Once again, Pinterest has got developers excited about its API. Hopefully they won’t be let down this time.
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Seall Seo – New Gaelic dramas take to the stage – Stornoway Gazette
Jun 14th
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Seall Seo – New Gaelic dramas take to the stage
Stornoway Gazette The Seall Seo series, produced by Pròiseact nan Ealan and supported by CnES and Bòrd na Gàidhlig aims to heighten the performance skills of the pupils involved at all levels by securing the services of local professionals who engage with and encourage … |
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Seo In Guk to take a break from ‘I Live Alone’ – allkpop
Jun 12th
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Seo In Guk to take a break from 'I Live Alone'
allkpop Another representative commented, "Seo In Guk has a lot of affection for the show, so instead of leaving, he'll be taking a temporary leave of absence." Seo In Guk gained a lot of love from viewers for his honest portrayal of a man in his twenties … |
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Google To Take Waze Out Of Play For $1.3 Billion
Jun 10th
After months of acquisition speculation, it appears that mapping company Waze may actually be, really and truly, getting bought. And the lucky winner? One of the few companies on the planet that probably doesn’t need Waze at all: Google.
Israeli business publication Globes is reporting that Google will acquire the Ra’anana-based Waze for $1.3 billion. Naturally, neither party in this reported deal is confirming the details, no doubt until their ghostwriters can get the corporate blogs ready to post.
If this deal does go through, it essentially knocks a major mapping-data resource off the board. Waze’s social-oriented traffic app has generated a lot of map data, independent of vendors Google, TomTom, NAVTEQ and the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap Project.
The fact that there have been so few collections of geographic data out there for commercial use has made Waze very attractive to anyone looking to build a mobile platform without relying on Google Maps. When Apple decided to discontinue using Google Maps data in its own Apple Map app for iOS, Waze and TomTom were used for map data.
It was likely this association that helped create rumors earlier this spring that Apple was courting. Apple CEO recently publicly denied ever having made a bid for Waze.
Facebook, on the other hand, was very much in the hunt for Waze, with rumors that the social media company was throwing around billion-dollar checks to pick Waze up. Facebook reportedly backed off when it learned that Waze, unlike other Facebook acquisitions, wanted to remain open and maintain its offices in Israel.
(See also: Facebook Rumored To Purchase Traffic App Waze For $1 Billion)
It is not clear what Waze’s role within Google will be when all is said and done, though early reports indicate the company will remain independent. Likely, a scenario like Google’s 2010 acquisition of travel vendor ITA Software will unfold. Today, ITA is still a separate entity, and its passenger and airline reservation systems software powers travel apps like Kayak and Hipmunk.
While Waze data would be superfluous to Google’s mapping data, the social aspects of the Waze app, which enables users to report traffic conditions in real time, could be folded into Google’s mapping system, which would increase the accuracy and robustness of Google’s existing traffic-reporting systems.
However Google opts to use Waze, one thing is for sure: Waze and its data would now be out of reach for any company that needs mapping data without going through Google. This puts Apple and Facebook in a particular bind.
Which may have been the whole $1.3-billion point.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.
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Yandex’s New Interactive Snippets Allow Users to Take Actions From Search Results
Jun 7th
Russian-based Yandex has introduced a revolutionary way for users to interact with search results by letting them pay bills, buy movie tickets and much more right in the SERPs without ever having to click through to the website.
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Matt Cutts’ Take On SEOs After New Update by @smorgs13
Jun 3rd
How’s everyone doing post Penguin 2.0? This update only affected 2.3% of search queries, yet some of our users said the following about the new update: “It is working..now i can see lots of variations in ranking.” “I just checked my ranking. some sites are down and some sites are up.” “I [...]
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Take Your Business to the Next Level with Innovative SEO Packages – PR Web (press release)
Jun 2nd
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Take Your Business to the Next Level with Innovative SEO Packages
PR Web (press release) Think Big, Australia's leading SEO firm, has recently announced several attractive SEO packages for companies that want to experience the benefits of organic traffic at pocket friendly rates. Effectively competing online and generating sufficient … |
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Is it Time to Take a Machete to Your SEO Strategy?
Jun 1st
Has your site been subject to a steady decline in organic search traffic? Or even hit by a penalty? Either of these are likely signals that something is wrong in how Google perceives your site. It’s time to get clean and let go of bad SEO practices.
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Is it Time to Take a Machete to Your SEO Strategy? – Search Engine Watch
Jun 1st
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Is it Time to Take a Machete to Your SEO Strategy?
Search Engine Watch Disclaimer: This column contains ideas that advocate radical changes to the SEO strategy for many web publishers. This may or may not be the best thing for you to consider for your website. You need to evaluate that risk for yourself, and neither the … Legalsophia President George Magalios Announces SEO Promotion for Law … |
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Blekko’s New Search Results Aim to Take the Guesswork Out of Intent
May 29th
Blekko says the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query, rather than scanning through a list of blue links. The new results aim to give users choices, whether they are researching a topic or a product to buy.
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