Pinterest Moves Into Pocket and Instapaper Territory with New Article Pins

By: Laura Hazard Owen | GigaOM

It looks as if a lot of people are using Pinterest not just as an image-sharing-and-saving site, but also as a place to save text-based content. In fact, Pinterest says that over 5 million articles are pinned every day — so on Tuesday, it rolled out new “Article Pins” that include more information about the contents of those articles.