Dropbox is integrated directly into Facebook

After conducting Dropbox hired former Facebook executive director of the company management, the two companies immediately launched a new partnership that allows users to integrate right into your Dropbox Facebook.
 

 
This means that users can select the Dropbox file share with friends and colleagues through an integrated platform that Facebook recently made. The sharing will take place right inside Dropbox via a new tool that allows users to authenticate your Facebook account and then select the name or who you want to share files with them.
 
This is considered a new impulse from Dropbox to attract users after witnessing a series of rival cloud released recently. The iCloud Apple growing strongly, while Amazon also offers a cloud storage solution convenient for users, while Google is planning to launch an initiative to provide cloud storage is great.
Known month, Dropbox has updated Automator platform for its services, increase the ability to connect with Google +. This suggests that Dropbox feel social integration is the way to enhance competition in the field of cloud storage.

Learn magic growth of Pinterest

With an average of 1.36 million user hits per day, Pinterest social networking is becoming the focus of intense networking community. In fact, many people are "emboldened" that would threaten Pinterest dominance of Facebook.

However, the company that analyzes Internet speed RJ Metrics remarked, "the growth rate of Pinterest rocketing" and said "this is the most attractive young sites currently on the Internet". Therefore, do not know about the story usurped the throne into the real Facebook.

Pinterest What?

According to the statement of the development team Pinterest then this is your social network will "connect people around the world based on style and their own interests." Users can upload and share your own photos captured or collected somewhere, sort them by customizing the "table" theme preferences. Everything can be shared and "attached" to Pinterest.
 
But according to the interpretation of the mass media and market research organizations, this is a social network for attractive women or, more likely the majority women. Pinterest viewed as a center for women looking for fashion trends, recipes and strengthen family happiness.
 
Survey results show that the page Modea, 68.2% on Pinterest members are women, while a member with XY chromosomes accounted for only 31.8%. Number of children who have joined the social networking accounting for 50% of the total members. 97% of fans Pinterest largest social network Facebook planet are women.
 
According to a survey by the company Ignite Social Media, the main object is used Pinterest women aged 25-54, the vast majority of college graduates and the average income 25,000 to 75,000 USD / year . The content relating to women's fashion clothing is concerned, and share the most.
February this year, research firm AppData also give a result similar studies: 97% of the total membership of 10.4 million registered users Pinterest women.
 
According to writer Martha C. White from Time magazine that the economy shrinking, people have less money for the bill unnecessary. Many people find it necessary to spend less. This is an appropriate interpretation services for social media increases, allowing people to "hunt" and "reap" the product without cost. Women love that.

Who founded Pinterest?

Ben Silbermann, former Google employees, is the founder Pinterest. In 2008, Ben co-founded Silbermann Cold Brew Labs Inc. company and then create Pinterest, only products of this company.
 
The project is USD 37.5 million investment from venture investors. In May 12-2011, Pinterest attracted 7 million members, a jump away from the number 1.68 million members in August 9-2011.
 
In January / 2012, Pinterest the jump in the number of members and traffic. According to published market research firm comScore, during this time, traffic Pinterest with total access to the leading websites such as Google +, YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Reddit combined.
In February, the company has been Pinterest Stats Hitwise put into groups of five top social network in the world today through traffic continues to surge. The company's value increased 5 times, current estimated value of $ 200 million.
 
And although the members and such a huge traffic, but the people running the Pinterest just a small group working in an office in Palo Alto, the Silicon Valley. Only about a dozen technicians who runs the social networking site.
 
Blog Business Insider economic well-known that Google should prepare a large sum of money to buy social networking site Facebook and crushed, since even the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is also proved Pinterest favorites. Zuckerberg has joined more than 2,500 people Pinterest and "followers".
Pinterest not currently for sale, but Google is possible to convince them. MySpace acquisition, who made many social investors feel dizzy, but Pinterest is another story. Pinterest 37.5 million investment to develop and now its value has more than a dozen times, worth the venture.

Pinterest how to make money?

Revenue from advertising and making money on content posted by members is how to make money primarily by social networks and Pinterest is no exception. Especially when this nascent social network, are subject to be followers of fashion, every performance ... targeted.
 
For advertisers fashionable clothes, jewelry Pinterest is obviously a gold mine, while a recent report in January said the rate on retail Web sites from all three Pinterest bigger social network big LinkedIn, Google + Youtube and video sharing sites combined.
Pinterest was established only in 2010 so this is obviously a great success. The famous brand seeking to generate Pinterest poured into the official account, besides the collection of images available from the fashion show clothes blogger known as Martinez or Calypso.
 
Kerry Sauriol Blogger comment: "The amount of free advertising that the brand receives on Pinterest is unbelievable." "There are many brands of clothing, appliances, electronics Pinterest not yet have an account, so that that their products are still admired by Pinterest users to post photos and share with each other," she comment.
 
However, according to blogger Josh Davis, Pinterest search revenue by using affiliate link. Every time the user posted an image of a product / service to Pinterest certain that this product is available in the advertising program, Pinterest will insert the path to it. When someone click on the link, Pinterest% will be paid on the value of products sold.
 
To put it more simply, by blogger Hungld you register as "sales agent" for the vendor product, service, you will get aff link, or ID itself, your task is hit the links all over the place, to as many people know how to and buying through your aff link as possible. You will receive a% commission from these sales.

And the risk of fraud

Recently, security firm Symantec has an article on its blog, a meticulous description of a series of fraud on Pinterest method. Most are related to entice users to participate in surveys, register for the subscription service, disclosure of personal information and even install unwanted applications.
 
Some phishing tactics will cause users to be involved in the operation network pays (cost-per-action network based) that each successful transaction will bring fraudsters from 1 to 64 USD .
 
These types of scams have been popular on other social networking sites and new sites are Pinterest be utilized for missions online fraud.
"The scammers would love to put the sexy link inside the forums, and commentary on social networks. They called on users to participate in the survey that gift promises to be electronics or gift cards for free, "Symantec said.

Google + "jump" after opening wide

Only a short time after the official opening allows subscribers broad, social networking, Google + has witnessed rapid growth, with traffic up to 1269% and immediately entered the top 10 social networking sites most world.
Introduced in July, but Google just officially opened wide social network + Google last week, while introducing a few new features on social networks. Since then, Google + has quickly become a "star" when traffic shot up incredibly, more than 1,269% compared to the past, in which more than 15 million visitors from the U.S., compared with of only 1.1 million visitors compared to last week.

The chart shows the jump in traffic to Google +

According to service data traffic statistics website Experian Hitwise, Google + ranked 8 out of 10 major social networks in the world. Only a week ago, Google + is ranked 54 in the Hitwise list.
Hitwise also predicts the number of Google users has increased by 30% + after the service is open to the public. The number of Google users in the 43 + million.
However, the number of Google + is still far less than the statistics of Facebook, a social network of today. Even Google is still classified as + social networks have been considered expired, MySpace.

10 largest social network now according to statistics from Hitwise

To make the dream of their own social networks, Google will probably still have to do a lot. The biggest advantage of Google's the time when Google + appeared not long ago and Google was able to gain experience from their own failures on the field of social networks in the past.

+ Google officially opened to the community

After 3 months of trial and limited users, social networking, Google + was officially open to all registered participants.
Wrote on its official blog, Vic Gundotra, vice president of Google's social, said: "We have tested 99 different features in the original Google + social networks. Now the first 100 features are matched: open to everyone. "
In addition to opening for public subscription, Google + also improve the chat feature video Hangouts (features were rated as outstanding and the "trump card" in the battle with Facebook), allowing users to use this feature on devices running the Android operating system (version 2.3 or higher).
Google + also incorporates additional search capabilities, allowing searches on content sharing and social networking sites across the Internet. "Just type in what you need to search in the search box of Google +, we will return results that other users have uploaded as well as popular content on the website" - Gundotra wrote.

Hangout on the phone features Android

Although Google + limited number of users involved in the testing process, only those who received invitations were allowed to register and participate in social networks, within the first month of release, Google + was quickly reached be 20 million users.
But since then, social networks seem to lose their heat, as some users tend to be slow, and activities of members is not too exciting as what Google has planned.
One of the main reasons that this happens is that Google has shut down its social network for too long, while many people are eager to test new things. Now, with the opening of the Google + community, Google has started to accept "the game", and if Google + else fails, perhaps no longer any reason to quibble over this failure of Google.
You can access https://plus.google.com/ to register and join Google social networking +.