New App Turns Site Text into an Image So You Can Pin It

Quotes are popular on Pinterest. Very popular. 

Now you can make you own quote images to pin just out of plain old text on a website. Pin a Quote is a new app that lets you highlight and pin any text you find worthy.

All you have to do is place their bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar, highlight the text you want to pin, click on the bookmarklet and pin away.

Here are a couple of screenshots from a sample quote I just pinned:

Try it out and happy pinning!

New App Tells You the Monetary Value of Your Pinterest Pins

Once Pinterest started getting the type of publicity it has over the past few months, it was only a matter of time before adventurous developers began trying to measure activity and influence. First came PinClout and now The Next Web brings us a second Pinterest analytic app. 

Now You Can Measure Your Pinterest Clout

For those of you that have been pinning like crazy over the past few weeks and would like see how you measure up against other users, Pinterest now has its own version of the popular social media influence measuring tool Klout.

PinClout is a new app that measures your Pinterest influence based on your activity on the site and allows you to share it on Twitter.

No doubt that there will be better and more comprehensive ways to measure Pinterest influence as the network matures, but at least brands and users have a way to measure basic activity.

So what's your PinClout score???

Follow the Oscars on Pinterest!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences recently launched a Pinterest page to celebrate tonight's Oscars show (7pm, ET, ABC).

The Oscars page is currently somewhat sparsely populated, but they have been pinning behind-the-scenes pics from the show today and it will be interesting to see how they incorporate Pinterest into the event.

Will they update their boards as winners are announced? 


Will they be pinning red carpet pics for the Pinterest fashionistas to repin?

Time will tell what they have in mind for the page.

A Few Ways Men Can Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]

I stumbled across this infographic on visual.ly today and thought it might be helpful to all the male pinners out there:

Infographic credit: Jake M.Block

This Week's Top Pinterest News- Intellectual Property, New App, Ann Romney & Brand Squatting

Its been a crazy week so far for Pinterest. The momentum has not slowed down a bit and the media is more interested than ever in the site.

Here are a few of the this week's Pinterest highlights:

• First and foremost, the biggest news was that Pinterest introduced code for companies that don't want their site's content pinned;
• Pinspriation, a Windows Phone 7.5 Pinterest-connected app, was released;
• Ann Romney, wife of GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, joined Pinterest;
• We found out that 'brand squatting' is a big problem on Pinterest.

There, now you are up to speed on this week's developments. Time to go back to pinning!

WWJLP: What Would Jeremy Lin Pin???

New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is the hottest thing to hit social media since Tim Tebow. 

Lin has already conquered Twitter and now Facebook and we wonder what's next?