Tapping on a pin's image loads the pin in a new view with a full-width image, a description, a list of who liked or "re-pinned" it, as well as comments users have added. Version 2.0 uses a two-column view the smaller images allow you to flick through recent pins much faster. The previous iPhone-only mobile app had a single column, which made it tedious to browse if you follow more than a few people. (Delicious, by contrast, was essentially a text-based list of links.) When you log in to its website or its latest mobile apps, you're presented with columns of images from the people you follow.īrowsing pins (left), and getting a closer look (right). The burgeoning site recently stopped requiring invitations to join, opening registration to all users.īecause of its reliance on images, Pinterest is highly visual. Pinterest has experienced explosive growth recently, becoming the third largest social network according to Experian Marketing Services. For instance, I have pinboards for Apple, photography, typography, vegetarian recipes, and crafts. Your "pins" can be organized onto various "pinboards," which can be organized by a certain topic, event, or whatever you want. It aggregates links to various items on the Web, using an image as the primary indicator. Pinterest is a social network that is a sort of like Delicious or Pinboard, but with pictures. Heavy Pinterest users, however, will prefer the iPad version, with its built-in browser and pinning features. We took the apps (yes, all of them) for a spin and found the iPhone version in particular to be a marked improvement over the previous, nearly useless app. The company also released a version for Android devices as well, adding identical functionality to the iPhone version. Pinterest announced on Wednesday morning that its iOS app received a major upgrade to version 2.0, for the first time creating a universal application with iPad support. Pinterest really shines on the iPad, making browsing large collections of visual bookmarks fluid and fun.
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