pinboard

[′pin‚bȯrd]

(computer science)

A board or panel containing an array of uniform holes into which pins may be inserted to control the operation of equipment.

Pinboard

(1) (pinboard.in) A social bookmarking site developed by Maciej Ceglowski in 2009. In 2017, Pinboard acquired Delicious, another bookmarking site that was taken offline two years later pending changes. See social bookmarking site.

(2) (pinboard.com) A weekly email newsletter sent to members of a group or school. Founded in 2011 in London, Pinboard was designed as an electronic equivalent of messages pinned to a cork board that hangs on a wall in the hallway of a school or community center. Users may sign up with an existing Pinboard or create a new one from scratch.

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In 2009, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp left their jobs to begin working on a new website: Pinterest, a visually oriented-Social media sharing site where users follow"pinners" with similar interests and who are encouraged to create their own "pinboards" on various topics "Pins" are simply links to other Web content (articles, blogposts, pages, photographs, videos, etc.).

Time to 'PIN' your bank? Pinterest was the hottest social networking platform of 2012. Some bank marketers have experimented with this new media, but only a limited number have found success so far. We offer some suggestions to help turn 'pinning' into a winning strategy

Online test prep company Grockit has described its new pinboard education site, Learnist, as the "Pinterest for educators and students." The site lets users create custom lessons in sequential steps using images, videos, and websites.

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A service designed to let people "discover, share and collect inspiration" (their words, not ours, we hasten to add), Pinterest is basically designed to let you 'pin' items that interest you to a vast digital pinboard in the form of pictures.

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The site, billed as an online pinboard, allows users to post their ideas, recipes, photographs and more.

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But though it might be easy to label Pinterest--a virtual pinboard on which users "pin," or post, images and share them with others--as just another social media site, companies are seeing it as an integral part of their brand building, as well as a means to convert consumers to purchasers.

Pining to pin: consumers, retailers and vendors swarm to Pinterest

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