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Starting today Pinterest is going to roll out its new look for all users. Back in January Pinterest had offered a select group of pinners to test out the new look they were developing. Now the new Pinterest look is going to be rolled out to all users and they should expect to receive an invitation soon. There are new discovery features aimed at making it easier for users to discover things that they love but don’t know about, apart from a handful of other changes. (more…)

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Twitter was launched in 2006 by a group of guys, one of which is Jack Dorsey, who is currently executive chairman of the social network, as well as the CEO of Square, a new mobile payment company that launched in 2010. However, Dorsey’s next adventure is to one day become the mayor of New York City, a city with over 9 million residents.

In an interview that aired last night during 60 Minutes on CBS, Dorsey says that he’s “serious” about running for mayor of New York City. While he didn’t say when he would be running for mayor, Dorsey says that he wants to move to the city some day and try to gain access to the mayor’s seat. He says that he feels safe in New York City, and compares it to being in a car during a thunderstorm, where there’s chaos going on outside, but you feel safe inside the car.

Of course, it helps if you’re rich if you want to run for mayor in the most-populous city in the US, and Dorsey ranked 392nd in a list of the 400 wealthiest Americans — a list that requires $1.2 billion in net worth in order to make it. Current NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg ranks 10th with a net worth of $25 billion.

Again, Dorsey didn’t talk much about his intentions to run for mayor of NYC, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be running for the seat anytime soon, especially not after Mayor Bloomberg’s exit that will happen on January 1, 2014. Dorsey currently lives in San Francisco, California and is originally from Illinois.

[via CBS News]

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wants to run for NYC mayor is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’re familiar with celebrities tipping their toes in the social media
waters. A number of actors now have their a number of pet projects. Some
like Ashton Kutcher actually head up social media marketing firm like
the Katalyst Network or Ian Somerhalder and his news activist site in beta called "Ryot," or Justin Timberlakes’ current attempt at welcoming defectors back to MySpace. 
But up till now, there’s been no political figures actively involved in
a social media enterprise. That was, until Cory Booker created
#waywire.

Twitter is apparently looking to bring some music into its service. The company is getting ready to use We Are Hunted, a music discovery service it had acquired 6 months ago, to help build itself a standalone music app. The app will give personalized music recommendations to users based on the musical artists the user follows, and the musical artists the user’s followers follow. The service, while less personalized, will still be usable for those without a Twitter account.

The app will stream music via SoundCloud. It will feature 4 tabs. The “Suggested” tab recommends you songs based on the musical artists you follow. The “#NowPlaying” tab lists links to songs tweeted by your followers who tweet using the #NowPlaying hashtag. The “Popular” tab lists the songs that are currently trending on the music app, and the “Emerging” tab lists a bunch of up-and-coming artists featured on We Are Hunted.

The app will display artists and songs in a grid design. Clicking on an artist’s panel will cause it to expand displaying a short bio on the artist, as well as links to songs the artist has on SoundCloud, or on iTunes. Users can tap the play button to begin streaming music from the artist. Users will also be able to follow artists directly from Twitter’s “Twitter Music” page.

iOS users are said to have first dibs on the Twitter Music service, just like Twitter’s video sharing app, Vine. The Twitter Music service is speculated to be released to iOS devices by the end of this month. Twitter hopes that by integrating music into its network, it can attract more new users to its service. It will, however, have a hard time prying users away from popular music services like Pandora and Spotify.

[via CNET]

Twitter to launch standalone music app is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The "Fourth Wall’ is a theatrical term for the imaginary wall that
exists between actors and their audiences. Originating from Ancient
Greek theater, while the open-box arena of a theater stage makes up
three walls, theater-goers are seen as the fourth wall. "Breaking the
fourth wall" is considered a technique of metafiction, as it penetrates the boundaries normally set up by works of fiction by reaching out to the audience.