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Pinterest’s APIs let developers embed pins directly on their websites (updated)

Pinterest's APIs let developers embed and search for pins directly on their websites

A lot of people use Pinterest to keep track of stuff they'd like to buy, places they want to go and food they want to eat, but there's always been separation between Pinterest and the actual sources of those desires -- you only had the option to click a Pinterest button on a site to pin the content in question to your board of choice. No longer.

Pinterest has taken another step to strengthen its partnerships with third-party websites with the release of its APIs today. The tools allow web developers to embed recent, trending and most-clicked pins (that update regularly according to what folks are pinning), and even implement a Pinterest search surface that surfaces pins of items from your domain surface custom search results on their pages, too. Folks will also now be able to pin stuff directly from websites, so as to not interrupt the retail experience with a detour to Pinterest proper. To illustrate these newly bestowed powers, Pinterest has partnered up with a slew of well-known sites, including Zappos, Target, Walmart, BuzzFeed, and Better Homes And Garden -- and if you'd like the full list and further description of how to use the new APIs, hit the source below.

Update: Our earlier version of this story mistakenly indicated that the new APIs enabled searching Pinterest on third party sites. In fact, the APIs only allow devs to create a custom keyword search and embed those search results on a webpage.

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Source: Pinterest blog

Twitter adds related story links to embedded tweets, but won’t say how they’re curated

Twitter adds related story links to embedded tweets, but won't say how they're curated

In a bid to cement itself as the definitive real-time news commentary engine of the modern universe, Twitter has (smartly) decided to add a bit of context to embedded tweets. Increasingly, blogs and news sources are embedding tweets that relate to a story they're composing, but to date, those tweets have largely sat on their own island. Starting today, embedded tweets will include a "Related headlines" section beneath the original tweet, where you'll be able to view the tweet's permalink page as well as lists and links to websites where the tweet was embedded. All in all, it seems like a wise move for the company, but curiously, it's not clear how the shown links are chosen. Something tells us every news organization on the planet will be pleading to be first for inclusion, though.

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Source: Twitter Blog

Twitter briefly showed which sites were embedding which tweets

Twitter briefly showed which sites were embedding which tweets

It's been possible for Twitter fans to embed posts and whole timelines for some time, but authors almost wouldn't know it when they aren't told that the sharing takes place. Users may not be in the dark for much longer -- F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen noticed this weekend that Twitter was briefly listing the sites embedding a given tweet. We've asked Twitter for more details, but the quick disappearance of the feature suggests that the company was conducting field tests. If the addition becomes permanent, it would be consistent with Twitter's desire to track major events -- we'd know just which tweets get the web community buzzing.

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Via: The Verge

Source: Mikko Hypponen (Twitter)

Vine enables video embeds, keeps web viewers in the loop

Vine switches on video embeds, keeps web viewers in the loop

Vine video posts have had an ephemeral quality when there's been few ways to show them off outside of catching a web link the moment it appears. There's a better way to make those six seconds last an eternity now that the Twitter-run service offers support for embedding its loops on the web. As long as you have access to an existing web link or share a clip through an updated iOS app, you can get HTML code to embed a video in two styles and three different sizes. While it's not quite the expanded platform support that some are hoping for, embedded viewing does make it easier to see what Vine is about -- and potentially delight (or annoy) blog readers who'd have otherwise missed your ultra-short movie projects.

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Source: App Store, Vine