Pinterest — News Aggregation on Steroids
Blog PostsWhat is it about Pinterest that has more people using it than Twitter, Google+ and YouTube combined? Honestly, I didn’t get it at first. I thought it was right up there with Groupon: short on functionality, long on hype. But now I think I have it figured out: It’s information aggregation on steroids.
Going a few years back, I was a daily user of the free NewsGator aggregator, using their tool to build out a site that collected information and stories from various sources that I plugged in via RSS. The themes and stories, of course, were defined by the editors for the sites and news agencies that fed them, which limited how much control I could have over the data I consumed (other than by ignoring the content or removing the feeds).
