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MarketingBliss by Kurt Frenier aka TheRedHotMarketingBlender
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Social media is a source of endless discussion. With the advent of new tools and / or platforms every day, keep up has become a challenge. But some among the many are the undisputed leaders and decide largely on what will be the future. This slide presentation may give us interesting information on the trends and what might we expect in 2012 and beyond. [note Martin Gysler]
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Breaking news that Pinterest is changing user submitted pins to make money. Are they now one of the biggest affiliates on the Internet?... That's the question [note MG]
I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations seems to be covering them.
If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t have any disclosure of this link modification on their site, and so far, while it has been written about, no major news outlet has picked up on the practice or its implications.
Pinterest doing this is big news in my opinion for two reasons:
Read more: http://llsocial.com/2012/02/pinterest-modifying-user-submitted-pins/ Via Martin Gysler
Carey Leahy's comment,
February 17, 2012 5:44 PM
Well spotted Martin! We do do need to be informed. I'm not huge on metadata - but I should know if someone is using my online interests to make money! Keep up the good work Martin.
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