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Annotated Bibliography. KaraB_Pearltrees. Pearltrees helps you to organize the web - visually. Pearltrees puts a library in your pocket with its new iPhone app | Digital Trends. There is no shortage of applications leveraging your interests. Helping you collect, organize, and even experience them. Which is why it’s fairly novel when you find one that does this in a way we haven’t really seen before. Earlier this year, Pearltrees introduced its Web app (and shortly after its iPad app), an extremely visual, extremely smart method for managing your interest graph. The application organizes your interests into groups of pearls that sprout out in different directions, graphically charting where things intersect or overlap. Today, Pearltrees is bringing this experience to the iPhone. What users will perhaps most appreciate about the iPhone app is the ability to turn their photo library into pearls, adding a bit more customization to the operation.

But hands down, what’s really engaging about Pearltrees isn’t anything new: it’s simply exploring the ties and relationships between all the content that users are creating. 6 reasons to use Pearltrees. Pearltrees is the first and largest social curation community on the Internet.

It’s a place to organize, discover and share all the cool content you find online. However, beyond this basic definition, a question remains: why would I want to use Pearltrees? Well, what I want to share with you are six major use cases (or reasons) we’ve identified as being most popular across our entire community of web curators. In addition, I’ll also share with you a couple of interesting ways in which I have put Pearltrees to use for myself. Hopefully, you’ll not only get value in learning how the community uses Pearltrees, but also be inspired to find even more clever and creative ways to use our software yourself. 3.

The problem is that aside from searching your personal twitter stream to get back to the cool stuff you tweeted there’s no great way to keep those links at hand. Note: For advanced users you can even hashtag the links you tweet with #PT and the name of a pearltree in your account (e.g.