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September 24, 2013 08:00 pm GMT

Pinterest Update Expands Your Article Pins

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Pinterest is expanding its set of "rich pins" to include more details about pinned articles, the company announced Tuesday. Now, when users pin a story or article to a board, the pin will also contain other relevant information such as the author's name, the article title, a brief description and a larger link

Previously, articles pinned on Pinterest only contained photos from the article with a link at the bottom. (Users who wanted to include the article title or description had to add it manually.)

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"We’re always looking for ways to make pins more useful so that when you discover and pin something great, it’s easy to act on it, whether that’s cooking a dish, watching a movie, buying a new gadget or reading an article," Jon Parise, a software engineer at Pinterest, wrote on the company's blog. Read more...

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