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.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?They’re all here… well, sort of. Relatively speaking, they’re fucking endless, performing new tricks, baffling feats, and next to nothing new. What we really need is a Pinterest of Pinterests (oh wait: that actually already exists). Here, at least, are a few of our favorites:“What will you Bolt?”Imagine Stumbleupon’s curiosity with some comedy-quenching imagery, with still a bit of what those girls are writing on their bathroom stalls: gorgeous studio photography of a pineapple, juxtaposed with handcrafted models of the millenium falcon; an infographic on why people use Yelp next to a picture of Sofia Loren being hot. Having a little more humility than to attract the innate narcissism of pinboards for housewives to collaborate on new home interiors and bridesmaid dresses, I feel this site will attract people that I’d rather bump into on the Internet.
“Interesting. Man. Things.”Exactly what you expect: the SpikeTV of Pinterest clones. Sexy women in bikinis, extreme sports, pictures of the most elaborate man caves, and a bacon cheeseburger with a donut for a bun. If you don’t feel like pouring an entire bottle of AXE spray on yourself, try Tapiture, bro.
“Find lovely cat and pin it onto Pinterest” (sic)Also found under Internet in Merriam-Webster. It’s a classic, constant game of cats chasing mouse-clicks on the net. Even Google has set up 16,000 processors to go through thousands of cat videos on Youtube so their computer can learn to recognize them. Besides, human facial-recognition is a bore of the past, and always beckons those claims of intruded privacy. Nine lives later, what will we be doing with our ourselves?
“Discover, collect and share your inspirations”The end all, a Pinterest for Pinterest, like that trippy recursive effect you get from standing between two mirrors in an elaborate dressing room. An aggregator aggregating an aggregator. Not to create a competing site, nah, just a site that highlights Pinterest-user favorites (which is how Pinterest works?).
“Over 20 million tracks to discover, listen to and share!”Stop here for a moment, this is actually something worthwhile. The fastest, most ADHD way to find your next favorite track. Simply hover above the album covers and a snippet of the track begins playing. One thing that’s been irking media streamers that have adapted from the older ways of radio tuning and channel surfing is flipping through snippets of media that are already in progress; rather than waiting for buffer and load times; or viewing and listening to everything from its beginning.
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