Thursday, March 29, 2012

Virtual pinboard

the above picture was taken somewhere in new york, i think in the visitor center on times square. i mostly liked the colors and different shapes.
it also is a reason to write about my newest addiction; a virtual pinboard. ever since i use the internet, i never bothered to bookmark sites. so whenever i find an interesting site that i dont want to forget,i just leave the tab open. and then another tab, and another. and suddenly i have 3 or 4 windows each with too many tabs to count.... until my computer crashes and i loose them all. this week i joined "pinterest", a virtual pinboard where i hope to store all sites i find interesting (currently mostly recipe-blogs). it all looks so pretty with the pictures (as you can see here)! you can sign up "by invitation", or without, as i did, but then you have to wait a day or so before you can start pinning, because you are on some "waiting list" (which i found very annoying).
of course, there is a wikipedia about pinterest. the site launched in 2010, and is growing pretty fast recently. apparently, in the us, 83% of the users are female, and around 35-44 years old. probably posting recipes, just like me.... ;) they have some trouble with copyright, i believe, and some sites wont allow "pinning", like for example flickr. ah well. i hope it will be useful to me, and not a mere distraction from more important things.... (and i hope to stop those endless numbers of open tabs).

4 comments:

biebkriebels said...

I once learnt this at a computer course at work, but am to lazy to organise and put things in my favourites...

Anonymous said...

ouch!

Tim said...

soit heureux!

Kay said...

I like the colors and shapes too.

I got carried away with bookmarking. Now I have bookmarks for things I don't need marked anymore. I clean them out from time to time and then feel self satisfied.

And I subscribed to recipes for a while, then got overwhelmed with onces I knew I'd never use. Now I think first I should finish exploring all my cookbooks.