Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster?
by mindslight on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:32PM
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Somebody who's been pinned one too many times? Somebody who's not been pinned and feels left out? Somebody who's normally used to being the only one doing any kind of forceful pinning in this town? The male-dominated Silicon Valley insiders looking to repress the fledgling feminine curation site? The Paypal Mafia?
My personal bet would be just the media echo chamber ("They have a story about X? We need a story about X!") combined with a persistent lawyer who's stuck in the uncanny valley of abstraction - well past common sense but still not knowing when you're suffering from Gödel's curse, but who knows.
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The last time I thought this, though, the stories were being planted by Facebook PR to slam Google+.
Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster?
by mindslight on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @03:28PM
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Sorry, I wasn't really trying to strongly disagree. I just started writing and it became more of a commentary on the media and people who think they're righting the world, but are really trapped in Blub.
It could actually totally could be Facebook again, especially given how the narrative is all about individual users being at risk. It seems like interaction on Pinterest would diminish a segment of mass-market Facebook usage. Spread some FUD to make people think using new 'untested' social sites could possibly subject one to liabilities, meanwhile attempt to fill the demand for Pinterest-style interaction with new features.
Actually, now that I think about it more, isn't Pinterest directly monetizing what Facebook has always claimed to be able to monetize sometime in the future?