So, you want to deal with the enterprise? Or be B2B2C? Brace yourselves.
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Pinterest’s most-followed users (averaging 800,000 followers apiece) prefer to pin from tablets. 58% surveyed by HelloSociety said they did the majority of pinning from a tablet, followed by mobile (30%), and then a desktop/notebook (12%). OK so what does that mean for ecommerce companies, media companies and anyone else who wants to spread content to the site’s 30 million monthly visitors?
In short, make sure your tablet site doesn’t suck.
"The problem is that we have setup an implicit class system. Those that can afford to work for free readily accept unpaid internships that advance their future career because they have the financial backing to pursue such opportunities. Those that cannot work for free (and most likely accruing significant college loan debt) take whatever job pays. As the number of high quality and relevant paid internships is few, the result is they work in jobs that do little to advance their prospects. It is a two-tier system that locks people into tracks not of their own making and chipping away at our meritocracy.
Even worse is the fact that we are creating an implicit expectation that working for free is okay and an acceptable business practice. We couch this in talking about the valuable “experience” gained and that this is some “rite of passage”. Interns should feel “privileged” for the opportunity to work for these great companies for nothing. The undercurrent however is that we are essentially devaluing people, their talent, and their work. We are devaluing individuals over institutions.
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(via Bionic Mannequins Spy on Shoppers to Boost Luxury Sales - Bloomberg)
Just look at that graph. On the one hand, you have all the social networks that you know. They’re about 43.5 percent of our social traffic. On the other, you have this previously unmeasured darknet that’s delivering 56.5 percent of people to individual stories. This is not a niche phenomenon! It’s more than 2.5x Facebook’s impact on the site.This post. It is brilliant.
Day after day, this continues to be true, though the individual numbers vary a lot, say, during a Reddit spike or if one of our stories gets sent out on a very big email list or what have you. Day after day, though, dark social is nearly always our top referral source.
(via Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Technology - The Atlantic)
