Pinterest

I keep hearing about this service called Pinterest, and I am starting to see little "pin it" links on article for popular sites, but I really didn't have clue what the service actually you know did up until I read this post by Lifehacker. I think that the reason that I haven't heard of it is that I already have several strategies for managing the information that Pinterest was developed to manage.  For one I blog, when I find an interesting link I start a new post here and save the link.  Eventually I might post about it, but if I don't well I have it.  Then there are actual bookmarks and bookmark syncing systems.   I have moved away from this a little bit because my bookmarking hierarchies are retarded and get way way too deep and the nesting is out of hand.  Another strategy that I use for managing information overload is I remember broad strokes very vividly and then with a little google tomfoolery I can generally get to what it was that I was on about within a few minutes.  This strategy is a little hit and miss and really subject to my cognitive state when I'm searching and when I reading so the results have been mixed at best.  With enough interest I usually get there, unless the internet has borked and the thing I was thinking about has fallen off the internet (happens often for interesting things).

I may end up giving Pinterest a longer look and decide how they manage the backend, if they capture a snippet of the content on the end of the pin and keep it on their servers this could be really useful but if it is just a "bookmark" service that just pulls info via webscraping everytime you look this will be useless really quickly for my purposes.  I have an idea for testing, but because it's in invite only so I'll see if I get one.