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Pearltrees for iphone launch. Pearltrees lance son application iPhone. Lancé il y a deux ans et demi, Pearltrees sort aujourd’hui son application iPhone. Le service de curation permet de concentrer et suivre une multitude de sujets par centres d’intérêts, sous forme de perles, à toucher du bout du doigt. L’application iPhone permet notamment de partager des notes et des photos. Pearltrees revendique plus d’un million et demi de VU/mois, une grande majorité des utilisateurs sont anglophones : le continent américain reste le premier marché du « curateur » français. Pearltrees avait d’abord lancé son site web et une application iPad, qui recueille aujourd’hui 5 étoiles. On se souvient que Pearltrees avait levé 5 millions en février dernier. Un tour qui lui permet d’envisager plus concrètement la monétisation de son service sur un modèle freemium : l’application restera gratuite, mais certaines fonctionnalités seront payantes à partir de l’automne prochain.

Entretien avec Patrice Lamothe, co-fondateur de Pearltrees. Say Hello To Pearltrees For iPhone, A Place To Collect, Organize And Share Everything You Like. Pearltrees, the social library that lets people have at hand everything they like, announced the availability of the company’s iPhone app. Now, everything that interests you can be stored in your pocket. First launched on iPad in October, the free Pearltrees for iOS app is now universal. With it, users can collect and share Web pages, photos, and notes into themed groups. From there, you may organize all of your interests into linked droplets that when put together are called “pearltrees.”

With Pearltrees on your iPhone, you have everything you like at hand, easy to retrieve and even accessible offline. About Pearltrees for iPhone [caption id="attachment_322894" align="aligncenter" width="667"] Pearltrees for iPhone[/caption] For those new to Pearltrees, it’s important to know that the iOS app is another arm of the entire Pearltrees system, which first arrived on the Web in 2009.

Adding content from the Web [caption id="attachment_322908" align="aligncenter" width="638"] Early thoughts. Pearltrees for iPhone. I have written about Pearltrees since the web application was in private beta back in April 2009, before the official launch in late 2009. To date, the free service counts more than 500,000 contributors and more than 25 million pearls. Although I am not an avid user, however I love its aesthetics and the ease of use of its graphic interface. Content curation is a trending topic in the internet industry and Pearltrees is surely one of the most innovative startup to offer content curation and social networking based on the interest graph.

Today, Pearltrees launched its iPhone application nine months after the release of the iPad version. With the release of the iPhone application, the company introduced new features: Knowing the popularity of Evernote, these two last features will make the usage even more interesting and valuable. It’s truly like having a magical library in your pocket”. Pearltrees Hits the iPhone, Lets You Share More. We’ve been long-standing fans of Pearltrees, the French startup that makes organizing content you find online into themes via shareable collections of linked ‘pearls’. Now it’s bringing the experience to the iPhone and expanding the kinds of content that can be shared via the service. Like the browser-based and iPad versions of Pearltrees, the iPhone app allows you to collect and share Web pages in themed groups.

You can search and explore other users’ content too, making it a serendipitous way of uncovering new things you never knew existed (see our review of the iPad app for a quick catch-up). F**k it, we'll do it live! Our biggest ever edition of TNW Conference is fast approaching! Join 10,000 tech leaders this May in Amsterdam. To tie in with the new app, Pearltrees now allows users to share images and photos from your iPhone, and text notes too. The iPhone app itself has all the polish of its iPad cousin. Still, Pearltrees’ arrival on the iPhone is an overdue and welcome development. Pearltrees expands interests-based social network to the iPhone - iPhone app article - Brad Spirrison. Since launching its interests-based social network less than three years ago, Paris-based Pearltrees has attracted more than 500,000 contributors who have posted more than 25 million pieces of digital content. The venture capital-backed collector community today launches a universal version of its app so it works on iPhone as well as iPad now.

Here’s how it works: As one who signed-up for Pearltrees relatively recently, I am more of an admirer of the service than a practitioner at this point. The notion of a social network that doesn’t emphasize personal connections but rather common interests is intriguing. Still, it takes a bit of work to get a feel for everything. Pearltree’s mobile applications – the company debuted Pearltrees as iPad-only application last October – are a much more pleasing way to view and process collected information that interests you. The iPhone app allows users to add their own “Pearls” of digital content and discover related “Pearltrees”.

Pearltrees iPhone app goes live. Pearltrees is routinely used to embed data related to a particular topic in a way that is easy to navigate. The platform - which went live in 2009 - currently counts more than 500,000 contributors and over 25 million pearls, which can best be described as pieces of digital content. Currently, Pearltrees can be accessed via a plug-in on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE. There is also a Pearltrees app for Apple’s iPad, and as of today, one specially designed for the iPhone. "Pearltrees for the iPhone enables people to take the unique visual and touch interface (used to organize, find and share content) into the palm of their hand," Pearltrees spokesperson Oliver Starr told TG Daily. "This release also introduces new feature updates, including the ability to ‘pearl’ personal photos, upload quick posts of information and access Pearltrees regardless of smartphone signal strength in offline mode.

" "In addition, people can add short, text-based notes to their pearltrees. Pearltrees Comes To The iPhone, Goes Beyond Bookmarking And Adds Photos, Notes, Offline Mode. Content curation service Pearltrees comes to the iPhone, expanding beyond websites to let you share photos and text too.