From: Online Universities Blog

Traffic is boosting

The picture-bookmarking site is rapidly gaining followers and therefore is becoming more relevant for publishers. Shareaholic, a tool to easily distribute links throughout different social networks, released a very interesting study on Pinterest. The authors claim the outbound traffic from Pinteres has reached the level of Google and Twitter and therefore beats the aggregated traffic of Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn.

The report relies on on the aggregated data of more than 200’000 publishers with a total of 260 million unique users per month. Pinterest is at the fifth place for traffic with 3.6 percent, which is the fifth place behind Google (3.62 percent) and Twitter (3.61 percent).  Unchallenged Facebook holds the lead with a fat 26.4 percent. Second place we find StumbleUpon with 5.07 percent.

If you look at the numbers of the December, it’s pretty clear that Pinterest is on a winning streak. From 2.5 to 3.6 in just one month is quite impressive. Only Facebook had a larger growth rate.

 

Unfortunately there’s no data to the integrated publishers, but since SumbleUpon is at the top, it can be assumed that the data is only valid for the American market. Nevertheless the German speaking market can count a large growth rate and Pinterest will for sure be one of the top players soon.

How to use Pinterest

Pinterest is a picture bookmarking site. Good pictures that are optically nice usually leave a good impression and are “repined”. The same seems to be valid for infographics. There seem to be a ton of infografic boards up there already. Technical and new Gadgets seem to spark interest as well. And of course cat pictures. Cute. Even videos can be pinned, (and should contain a good intro picture such as womens butt checks or crazy skiing action).

Publishers therefore should  be sure to enhance the quality of their pictures and use the potential of Pinterest has as traffic source. If you want to pin something you can use the official Pinteres-Button.

So long and Pin this Post

It is a low-cost, peripheral device that looks like a desk lamp, and just like a lamp lights up a surface at which it is pointed, IllumiShare shares a surface. To do this, IllumiShare uses a camera-projector pair where the camera captures video of the local workspace and sends it to the remote space and the projector projects video of the remote workspace onto the local space. With IllumiShare, people can sketch together using real ink and paper, remote meeting attendees can interact with conference room whiteboards, and children can have remote play dates in which they play with real toys.

PONK is an experimental project started in 2011 by Jonathan Da Costa and Florence Rampin.
We hope to take the concept further by creating other games using the same installation. This initiative represents a self-oriented work to explore new ways of interactions through innovation.

So, to make life more enjoyable and tolerable for all the people living in Hornstull, we decided to use the downsides with a construction site and turn it into something positive.

In a construction tunnel we installed projectors, speakers and kinect sensors. We created a digital artwork designed as a virtual, interactive forest. The sensors registered the people passing the projection surfaces, which made the forest grow and change. Via a main screen, the visitors were given the possibility to interact directly with the installation and to help the forest grow.

Even Facebook, Twitter and Google+ acted as inflows to the forest to create content. To enhance the experience of the installation we also developed a sound design, adapted to the daily parts.

This great graphic by Online Education takes a closer look at this recent study and reveals some pretty interesting stats about Facebook’s actual effects on students and their studying habits. In conclusion, it really isn’t all that evil as the media makes it out to be.

Via: OnlineEducation.net