Sometimes, when you see something cool and innovative, do you feel that ‘you had thought about it first!!” oh this happens to me a lot. I’m not lying, I can swear on all my shoes (oh yeah, that’s a big thing for me), but I had an idea about online pin board couple of years back. While exploring the world of web, I used to think that there has to be one place where I can keep all my favorite links! Your web browser ‘Favorites’ is not enough!
What did I do about it? Well, nothing. I waited for someone else to do that and here came
Pinterest! Its an online pinboard! Stats show that its competing with social media big shots like facebook and twitter. Now if I go out and say that ‘you know, I had this online pinboard idea first’ you’ll say ‘oh yeah’
. So instead I signed-in to Pinterest and started pinning! And man I love it!! I’ve created my own boards and pinned a L.O.T of things I want to do/see/create/remember and what not!
Obviously its not free from common social media site drawbacks. Such as some stranger stalking you online and ‘LIKE’ing everything you do on web or some people pouring over emotions on a picture of a kitten or someone just sharing everything about their personal life..seriously, everything.. But since Pinterest invitation is on request, the other nonsense is controlled. All you get is organized listings of all awesome things on web ready for you to pin on your own board! If you are like me, who loves pretty, organized, user friendly sites, you should checkout Pinterest for sure!
You’ll say Pinterest has been there for a while, so why am I writing this today? Because today, one of my friends introduced me to his site, and I thought, ‘Man I had thought about this first!!’ Turns out it’s not the person who thinks about it first, but the person who actually ‘does’ it matters! So what we (actually I, not worthy of using honorary plural form today) learned from this? “Waste is the idea which was not implemented!!!” Or as Mr. Twain says,
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
Mark Twain
