TMG's blog just wrapped up an interview with my VP, Ed Knudson about all the good stuff we're doing to make magazines "Pinteresting."

Our friends and innovators at House Beautiful have done it again! On Monday, they launched the world’s first Pinterest-enabled publication. That’s right, you read that correctly. House Beautiful has the world’s first Pinterest-enabled publication!

While you process this information, let’s take a refresher course for those who haven’t heard of Pinterest. Pinterest is not just a pinboard style social networking site, but it’s the third largest social networking site behind Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest hit 10 Million unique users faster than any standalone website... ever! Pinterest recently raised 100 Million and has valuation at 1.5 billion. So yeah, Pinterest is pretty huge.

In the June issue of House Beautiful, readers can use House Beautiful’s HB connect app (or the Digimarc Discover app) and re-pin photos from the House Beautiful Kitchen of the Month pinboard to their personal pinboard. Readers can now repin photos immediately, without needing to track down the photos online. Digimarc’s Print-to-Pin solution enables magazines, advertisers, retailers and others to drive Pinterest fanatics from printed materials to their Pinterest pinboards.  

Ladies and gentlemen... this is just the beginning. Pretty soon you’ll be able to repin images anywhere using Digimarc Discover. Buckle up publishers, advertisers, celebrities, brands, and retailers. This is about to get Pinteresting!

A while back I posted about an 8th grader who won first place at a regional science fair. Patrick's project incorporated digital watemarking as a means to help deliver dosage information for OTC drugs. If you missed it, you can read it here. Well, that young man was invited to the state science fair and I'm very happy to say that he got 1st place again. Even better, he received an award for the "Best in Category" for Behavior Science which included over 200 projects.

Congratulations young man! Digimarc is very proud of your acomplishments. He's now entered his science fair project in the 3M/Discover Channel contest. Best of luck! A future entrepreneur or scientist is certainly among us.

He told us that the judges asked him why it's not happening today... We agree! Someone get a move on it!

Digimarc for Images is committed to the photography community, especially travel photographers! We like to live vicariously through all the adventures and exotic journeys they get to go on — all in the name of "work." To highlight our committment, we are a proud sponsor of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) contest, "The premier travel photography awards and your showcase to the world."

The following banners were provided to Digimarc to help by TPOTY to help showcase our involvement. Can anyone tell us what kind of whale/dolphin that is???