Follow Your Interest on Pinterest Because it is your online Pinboard

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These days a new website named Pinterest.com is hugely popular between Americans, and it is one of the top website of the web. Website is not so old, the domain was registered on 26 November 2009. It was launched in march 2010. But seeing its unstoppable growth it seems a Juggernaut.

If something goes popular there are no specific reasons for it however design and features are killer. At first it looks like a visual bookmarking service like new delicious.com. But what people are doing here? They are simply doing what they do on Flickr. So it is an online photo sharing site. You can upload your photos to share online on Pinterest but most of the photos are shared likes, repin and following that are already uploaded.

If you are a member you can like ant shared item as you like it on Facebook, you can repin any item as you retweet on Twitter, you also can comment on any item. However you can add a pin using a URL of picture or video or it is simply upload via URL. You can direct upload a pin as a picture.

So if you want to add a pin you can pin any picture you like (adult content not allowed) as women, nature, food adventures, clothes, accessories, gadgets, life style etc.

Pinterest has no direct signup, so you need to request an invite or you can get an invite by any of your friend he she is on Pinterest, you can comment on any item. Users can create their own boards and let users follow your board, you need to keep updated your board with interesting stuff.

It has a section for videos as well and all the videos are cool and interesting.

For specific interest you can browse categories. You also can start a good discussion on Pins.

Pinterest also has a gift section in different range as 1 to 20 dollars, 20 dollars to 50 dollars and above 500 dollars. You can send a gift to someone as a book, bracelet, clothes, watches, toys etc, via etsy like shopping sites.

If you are a website owner you can add pinit button so users can share your interesting items on Pinterest.