Pinterest, the Most Driving Traffic Referral Site

Why having a Pinterest account is a big deal? Because Pinterest has become more active in driving more traffic referral into a site. Despite its being novice with a period of 2 years existence in the social networking arena, Pinterest has now a share of 3.6 percent among its rival, just next to Twitter.



As of January 2012, the service of Pinterest has overtake Google +, Reddit, Youtube and Linkedin. The progress of Pinterest is a live explanation of this blog because when I opened Philippine Technology, I immediately integrates this with Pinterest. And I saw some traffics of unique visitors linking my site.

The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members can use Pinterest’s “Pin It” bookmarklet tool and iPhone app to save things they see online and offline, and explore and repin the images their friends collect via their personal newsfeeds. The website is especially popular among women, who account for 58% of Pinterest’s traffic, according to Experian Hitwise.

Pinterest account can't be acquire with just a simple sign-up. You need an invitation, and if ever you may have you may have to wait for many days after the approval of your account.


Here's how this social networking site works for progress:

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Ecwid, The Free E-commerce Widget for Webpage

I was looking for an organic items in Facebook when it happen also that I encountered this site name Ecwid via an online shopping store. They are using the service that Ecwid offer to the users. At first, I thought this was a kind of paid services that whenever you use it you have pay for annually.

The best thing about this service, it's available for free. Easy to set-up and you don't need to go to other sites just to check your online store. It can be directly install to your Facebook account and let your friends of your friends buy your products.

No transaction fees. No setup fees. Forever free plan.

No hosting required All stores are hosted on our secure Amazon servers. So, you don't need to have hosting and purchase an SSL certificate to set up any online store. We take care about this.	We do all the boring things You don't need to worry about upgrades, security, server configuration and Facebook changes either. You sell, we do the rest.
37+ storefront translations Your international customers will appreciate the fact they can check out using their native language.	Install and set up in a few clicks We've concentrated our 10-year experience in store builder platform design to make installing and managing an Ecwid store easy as pie.
Several payment methods supported Ecwid supports a lot of payment gateways to accept orders from your customers, so you can select the most suitable for you ones.	Synced with your main store instantly You can use the same Ecwid storefront on your FB page and site simultaneously. And you can manage it all from a single control panel – changes are mirrored instantly across your storefronts.

Furthermore, when I visited their website this was the the data that I gathered about their background:

Ecwid is a product of Creative Development DBA Qualiteam. Our company has made e-commerce software since 2001. Our main focus is on commercial open source PHP shopping cart software. Our products are: F-Cart, X-Cart and LiteCommerce. Started with just three employees, our company has grown to over 140 people. Over 50,000 web stores are based on solutions designed by Creative Development.

The mission of our company is to make the web both convenient and effective business environment, for us, our clients and the clients of our clients.

Ecwid is our attempt to bring an entirely new approach to creating an online store: SaaS-based, compatible with your existing site, hassle-free and lightning-fast.

From this information, I may say that this company is fully established and their products are credible to use.

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NBI Website, Nowhere to Find

As of the moment when this article is written, the official website of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of the Philippines was still down for accessing the main page. It is suspected that a local hacking group was the culprit. A couple of days ago, some websites in America were attacked by hackers.

From the Facebook page of the Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines, the group have posted some links and photos of the NBI hacked website. Even PrivateX who was responsible on the recent attacked website of National Commission for Culture and the Arts has commented on the said post.

It is still not verified if this incident has in connection from the following attacked of different website all over the world. The NBI has not yet restored their website which started to fail at around 9:55PM, Monday, January 23, 2012 (Manila time)

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Photo Editing Site, Picnik will be Closing

Recently, I have noticed that some of the products of Google are syndicated with the online photo editing site, Picnik. It's a bit peculiar for me but beneficial because I would not be opening Adobe Photoshop just to give judgement to my images for uploading online.



Officially, this coming April 19, 2012 the integration of Picnik will take effect after they joined the search engine powerhouse Google in 2010.

Still, after the said merge, Picnik will continuously cater live photo editing in a more improved and awsome way. This will also opening another door because Google+ will be using Picnik.

Premium members of the said site will also be receiving their membership fee refund or money back in full amount.

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