9 lessons about the web and business from Pearltrees, the or. Pearltrees is a French startup that wants to change the way we organise the web. Describing how it works would lead you to believe that it’s another social bookmarking site, which would do them injustice. Most of the social bookmarks are organized either alphabetically or chronologically, which doesn’t do much good when you try to retrieve stuff later. Also, due to how most social bookmarking sites were designed, they’ve become more like a curated list of the hottest headlines out there right now, and about what Mashable calls “velocity” – the question: how fast is this thing spreading?
This idea of velocity is not what Pearltrees is about – on the contrary, it’s a tool that helps you keep an eye on context and history in the endless stream of blogs, tweets and Facebook posts. It’s a mental map of noteworthy things you’ve read online, organized by subjects and sub-subjects that are endlessly divisible. 1. “If you look at the next phase, the web 2.0, it’s all about content creation. 2. Pearltrees: #Pearltrees + #Android = TLF! Pearltrees - Collect & Share. Pearltrees lets you organize everything effortlessly. Add your content, transform it with Pearltrees AI, and organize it into beautiful collections. Discover and share millions of resources on your favorite topics. With Pearltrees, access all your interests anytime, anywhere! Dedicated versions of Pearltrees also exist for schools and enterprises.
What people are saying about Pearltrees:"The most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content" The Next Web"Pearltrees puts a library in your pocket" Digital Trends"This app makes a wonderful experience navigating the collections" Forbes Pearltrees is free to download and use. Pearltrees premium adds additional features and is available through an auto-renewing subscription. Our Terms of Use: Privacy Policy: Pearltrees - Collect, Organize, Share, Discover, Collaborate. Pearltrees for Android launch.
Funding. Employees' blogs. Videos. Corporate. Pearltrees Arrives On Android, Wants To Become The File Manager For The Post-PC Era. Pearltrees, the visual and collaborative library that lets you easily organize and bookmark information in tree-like structures, finally launched its Android app for phones and tablets today. The service started out on the web in 2009 and then came to the iPad in 2011 and the iPhone last year. Android, however, as the company’s CEO Patrice Lamothe told me last week, was always one of the most requested platforms, and the team also expects this launch to help it quickly grow its user base.
Thanks to the flexibility Android affords developers when it comes to sharing and bookmarking, Lamothe told me, this platform is really the first one that allows the company to fully realize its vision of becoming a “file manager for the post-PC era.” For Pearltrees, this means that you can use the Android app to bookmark and organize content from both apps like Flipboard and the web — something that would be very hard to do on most other platforms. Pearltrees, so far, has raised about $11.5 million. Content curation service Pearltrees hits Android, and looks set to become a ‘post-PC file manager’ Pearltrees is a content curation startup that we’ve been tracking for some time now, and today it’s launching an app on Android. However, there’s a twist, as the launch points towards an expansion of exactly what this service is all about.
As with the Web and iOS versions of Pearltrees, the Android app allows you to create, share and explore mindmap-style ‘trees’ of content. So, I could create a tree of articles, images and notes related to a particular theme and then if you searched Pearltrees for that theme, you’d find my tree and related ones by other people. It’s a highly visual, logical way of organizing and sharing ideas and information, and the Android app benefits from the OS’ built-in sharing capabilities.
A ‘post-PC’ file manager? It’s fair to say that Pearltrees hasn’t found mainstream fame quite yet as an alternative to more traditional social bookmarking services. It’s easy to see how the service could be repositioned as a ‘mobile file manager for those who think visually’. Entretien avec Patrice Lamothe, fondateur de Pearltrees.com. Pearltrees Gives Itself A Visual Refresh With New Customization Options, Major Redesign Coming Soon.
Pearltrees, the Paris-based curation and discovery service, just launched a new version of its web and mobile apps. The update introduces a visual refresh with full-screen images that now automatically appear as backgrounds for all of your pearltrees – the mind map-like tree structures that you use for organizing your collections on the site. While the service previously featured a very abstract representation of the bookmarks, images, texts and other items you save on the site, the new version now shows you more realistic ‘pearls.” A pearl, the company says, now “presents a view of what it contains, making what’s inside immediately recognizable.” This, as Pearltrees co-founder and CEO Patrice Lamothe puts it, “conveys more emotion and more information at a glance as people explore their libraries.”
In addition to this, Pearltrees now also features improved zooming capabilities and better image formatting. Interview de Patrice Lamothe – Pearltrees. Who's Web - Patrice Lamothe, CEO de Pearltrees, mise sur la curation et lève 5 millions d'euros. [LeWeb'11] "Pearltrees est à l'origine de la curation !" Patrice Lamothe, CEO. LeWeb'11, c'est the place to be pour tout ceux qui s'intéressent de près ou de loin au web. Que ce soit pour networker ou simplement pour découvrir les tendances du moment, l'événement reste fidèle à sa promesse d'être le lieu où gourous du Net et jeunes pousses se croisent et participent à inventer le futur proche. Parmi les personnalités de choix présentes, j'ai eu l'occasion de rencontrer Patrice Lamothe, CEO de Pearltrees, une boîte française, mais résolument tournée vers le monde. Interview : Démo : Comme Patrice aime à le rappeler, Pearltrees est à l'origine de l'engouement pour le buzzword "curation", puisque c'est sur la scène de LeWeb il y a deux ans que son interlocuteur à utilisé pour la première fois ce mot pour l'associer au web.
Bref, moi qui ne connaissais pas grand chose à Pearltrees, j'ai été plutôt enthousiaste à l'idée de tester le service, d'autant que l'outil semble tout indiqué pour gérer de façon intuitive (et mobile !) Pearltrees ou l’émergence de la « curation » françaiseIBM - Internet Business Model | IBM - Internet Business Model. Pearltrees. Pearltrees: planter un arbre pour forer le Web. On n’est plus là pour enfiler des perles. C’est, en substance, ce que disait Patrice Lamothe, fondateur de Pearltrees, en octobre, à l’occasion de la mise en ligne d’une première offre payante de son service internet. La start-up, qui propose une bibliothèque visuelle et collaborative, est en effet entrée dans une nouvelle phase de développement.
Comment ça marche ? L’internaute crée un arbre d’informations, enraciné sur une thématique, auquel il ajoute des branches. A chaque excroissance, il poste une vidéo, une photo, un lien sur le même sujet. Au fil des clics, il consulte les arbres sur les mêmes thématiques. «La nouvelle version permet de créer des Pearltrees privés et de gérer les paramètres de confidentialité avec précision pour un forfait mensuel de 4,49 euros», précise Patrice Lamothe.
Et la jeune pousse hexagonale chasse déjà sur les terres des gros du Web : «Avec 25% d’utilisateurs américains et 20% de français, Pearltrees n’est pas un outil de niche. La prochaine étape ? Recherche - #pearltrees.