Pinterest's company blog announces product changes, ads, design choices, growth figures, and diversity plans for the image-sharing service.
HN links it for company announcements, such as the logo design notes, the "nopin" meta tag for content creators, and the move toward ads.
Interesting how both Instagram and Pinterest are starting this transition at pretty much the same time with a very similar approach (http://blog.pinterest.com/post/61688351103/planning-for-the-future). Tumblr is already down the exact same path of inserting native-looking content with a small "sponsored" label.
I'm sure big, sexy brands will have no problem creating some nice-looking visuals that will fit right in. Questions is for me whether this will ever work for the long tail of advertising that is currently tweaking their keywords on AdWords. Anybody have any insight or experience with this?
The logos of Path and Pinterest are very similar.
Pinterest was actually designed by Mike Deal and fontographer Juan Carlos Pagan. The letter P looks like a needle & thread (i.e. a pin).
http://blog.pinterest.com/post/31465690453/new-logo-design-notes-from-michael-carlos
Path... is a font.
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/32786/path-logo-font
Didn't Pinterest address this to a certain degree? At least from the content creators - http://blog.pinterest.com/post/17949261591/growing-up says that you can add a meta tag marking your content as not pinnable.
We changed the url to that from http://blog.pinterest.com/post/110786995184/install-the-best-new-iphone-and-ipad-apps-from because it is more informative.
And then you combine it with your software skills to do: https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest