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"Pinterest has made good on CEO Ben Silbermann's promise earlier this week to redesign profiles on the site.\nNew Pinterest profile pages rolled out Friday morning. The new pages boast a cleaner, more streamlined design that evokes Facebook's Timeline.\nFor comparison's sake, here's top user Jane Wang's old Pinterest profile page:\n\nAnd here's her new one:\n\nIn this grab, there four centered columns vs. the former five, although if you stretch your browser's window, you can accommodate more. The tab on the left detailing who is following you and who has recently repinned your photos and videos is gone. Instead, a horizontal bar on the top of the page details that information. You'll also note that there's more blank space on the side and top, giving the page a less cluttered look. In another change, the default for the profile page shows recent pins, rather than Pinboards. \nThe vertically oriented photos and the space for a large rectangular photo on top also resemble Facebook's new Timeline profiles. \nPinterest could not be reached for comment on the redesign. Speaking at SXSW in Austin earlier this week, Silbermann drew a distinction between the new pages and Timeline. \n\u201CI\u2019m so excited about it,\" he said. \"We wanted to make it more beautiful \u2026 to make your profile different in kind than the profile you have on Facebook.\u201D\nSilbermann also discussed the old design: \u201CWe labored over that grid,\u201D he said. \u201CThere were literally dozens of that which were fully coded. We felt like, if your collections didn\u2019t look awesome, if they weren\u2019t beautiful, why would anyone spend the time to build them?\u201D\n\nSEE ALSO: What Do You Think of the New Pinterest Profile Pages? [POLL]\nWhat do you think of the new Pinterest profiles? Sound off in the comments.\nA Pinterest Timeline\n\n\nPinterest's Rise to The Top\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 2010: Pinterest Launched\nPinterest is launched to a closed beta. Later it will move to the email invite system it currently employs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAugust, 2011: Pinterest on Time Magazine\nPinterest made the list of Top 50 Most Interesting Websites of 2011, according to Time magazine.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOct. 8, 2011: Funding\n\nPinterest receives $27 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, which then valued them at $200 million.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, chieferu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctober, 2011: Page Views Soar\nIn October, the site surpassed 421 million pageviews, which means that each of its 3 million users spent a lot of time browsing Pinterest. That would be an average of 140 pageviews per user.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDec. 22: Top Ten\nPinterest is now in the top 10 websites in traffic in the category of social networking, which adds up to 40 times the number of visits it had six months before.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan. 19: Good Morning America Covers Pinterest\nPinterest has picked up mainstream media coverage as it gains popularity. Mashable\u2019s Community Manager Meghan Peters even appeared on GMA to explain it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan. 29: Pinterest Biggest Retail Traffic Driver\n\nTraffic Pinterest sent elsewhere has risen dramatically, making it a top five referrer for several apparel retailers, according to internal data from Monetate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeb. 1: Pinterest Beating Other Social Networks\n\n\nPinterest beat YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic in January, according to a Shareaholic study. Pinterest accounted for 3.6% of referral traffic, while Twitter just barely edged ahead of the newcomer, accounting for 3.61% of referral traffic. In July 2011, Pinterest accounted for just 0.17% of referral traffic.\nImage courtesy of Shareaholic.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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