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Pinterests for the DisPinterested

Pinterest clones are all over the Internet; time to test drive a couple.

In the shift from an informative Web 2.0 era to the personalization fundamentals of Web 3.0, the ever present task of making the web more about helping people shop better, and to see self-reflections in an eye-baking retina display has kept developers and designers busy. Michelle Obama is on Pinterest, dissecting the description from Barack’s twitter — posts she authors are her signed -mo. Otherwise, Obama 2012 campaigners are running it.

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Where is the manly equivalent? The dolphin-lover equivalent? A site in which you can post more than just beautiful flowers you found on the sidewalk and new fabric swatches, but quotes and gorgeous infographics and strange stock images and old maps of Central Asian subway lines? Where is the Pinterest that aggregates recipes for homeless dumpster divers?

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