Pearltrees Develops its New Interface Further with 'Meaning' Content and file curation and sharing platform Pearltrees has been updated today with new features that include ‘Meaning’, a new organization system.
‘Meaning’ is based on a traditional grid and allows users to drag and drop content into collections that can be shared with others and collaborated on with real-time synchronization. Pearltrees tells us that it hopes the new layout will encourage more collaboration between users. The company may have a point – a conventional grid could well take less time for new users to adapt to than Pearltrees’ old ‘tree of pearls‘ look that it moved away from earlier this year, even if it’s not quite as unique to look at. Social Curation Service Pearltrees Revamps Web and Mobile Apps. Pearltrees, the service that allows you to arrange Web content, photos and more (‘pearls’) into mindmap-style ‘trees’, has updated its Web and mobile apps today in order to bring a more seamless user experience and new features to the platform.
The company said the Web platform has been fully redesigned and rebuilt in HTML5, making it more easily accessible on a range of different devices, as well as introducing new features also now found in its iOS and Android apps. It seems it’s becoming a bit of a habit for Pearltrees to significantly revamp its website at about this time each year, and this time around it’s gone all-out to make collections, and collecting, “simpler, more accessible and more shareable,” CEO and co-founder Patrice Lamothe said. Pearltrees Radically Redesigns Its Online Curation Service.
Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service that launched in late 2009, was always known for its rather quirky Flash-based interface that allowed you to organize web bookmarks, photos, text snippets and documents into a mindmap-like structure.
For users who got that metaphor, it was a very powerful service, but its interface also presented a barrier to entry for new users. Today, the company is launching a radical redesign that does away with most of the old baggage of Pearltrees 1.0. Gone are the Flash dependency, the tree diagrams, the little round pearls that represented your content and most everything else from the old interface. Here is what Pearltrees 1.0 looked like: Vyer Films: curated films from around the world. Game-Steam : The curation tools we've been yearning for. Valve Software today announced a move for its Steam platform that the vast majority of PC game devs have been waiting a very long time for -- Steam Discovery, an update to the store that introduces new curation options.
The update comes at a time when game discoverability is becoming an increasing concern among developers as digital app stores are flooded with new games and content. This flood makes it more difficult for developers to reach their target customers, and it makes it more difficult for customers to find the games they'd buy. Valve's Alden Kroll says that the move is in direct response to the fact that over 1,300 games have been released on Steam already this year -- a shift that Gamasutra has already delved into.
In total, Steam hosts over 3,700 games and counting. A recent GDC Next survey showed that nearly 75 percent of developers polled think platform holders must do more to improve discoverability. Music for everyone - Spotify. Google buys music curation service Songza for $39m. Google has purchased music streaming and curation app Songza for a reported $39 million, as it looks to expand its digital music offerings.
Songza is available on Android and iOS devices in the US and aims to recommend users playlists based on their activities. Curated lists tailored to working out, commuting or studying are all available. The app is also able to offer up music based on the weather and allows individuals to vote songs up or down, so it is able to further tailor preferences. Food Curated: All good food has a story. We tell it. On video. Dadaviz Targets Artistic Nerds With YouTube-Style Feed. Data visualization — data viz — is equal parts art and science with a splash of auto-generated visual voodoo.
This technology is gaining in popularity as a way to quickly interpret and disseminate complex information at a glance. Dadaviz, a new community-curated feed, aims to be its YouTube, with new entries posted daily. “Dadaviz is an addictive feed of data visuals; we want to be the YouTube of data viz,” says co-founder Leon Markovitz. “There are no sites or apps out there being updated daily with the best data viz from the Web.
And our full-screen interface struck a chord in the community.” That’s because visuals haul in huge traffic. Tivo founders launch 'Qplay,' a Chromecast-like video curation service. Whether you like it or not, Chromecast copycats are on the rise.
The latest: a new set-top box/streaming service called Qplay that launched today from the cofounders of Tivo. Qplay is a $49 TV adapter that sends video from your tablet to your TV screen. The main difference between Qplay and the other screen-mirroring technologies is that you’ll need to route all of your videos through a Qplay mobile app. If you’ll recall, this strategy is similar to the one used by Vidora — only with an Apple TV instead of its own branded set-top box. As for the software, Qplay automatically arranges videos into separate “channels” of content called Qs. I’m not entirely convinced that leaving video “curation” up to users will translate to lots of people watching video on their TVs via Qplay. Above: The Qplay TV adapter used to push video from your tablet to your TV screen.
Image Credit: via Qplay “Other devices, such as Chromecast, translate channels into apps, and that just isn’t scalable. A look at how some companies are using paid curation services. Posted on July 5, 2011 3:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Content Curation With the variety of free and paid content curation tools hitting the market, finding the right one for you or your organization can be as daunting as choosing a good toothpaste or pasta sauce from the wealth of choices that confront you on store shelves.
One factor that can help you decide is seeing how the services are being used by others. Most of the fee-based services perform roughly the same tasks: They search for content based on the keywords you’ve set up and display them in portal-like interfaces. Here’s a quick review of some of the curated pages used by customers of some of these curation companies: Curata. Startup{ery : gather resources for your business. Rancho BioSciences Curation Services. Rancho BioSciences provides on site or off site curation services for all types of data including OMICs and clinical data, preparing data for loading in tranSMART, developing ontologies and vocabularies.
We have robust and reproducible manual curation workflows that are supplemented with an application of controlled vocabularies from scientific ontologies and dictionaries, such as CDISC MeSH, MedDRA and SNOWMed. We can also provide OMICs data pre-processing and annotation to enable in-house analyses of public datasets. Rancho Data Curation Services Download Szalma et al. Effective knowledge management in translational Medicine. Curation and Preservation Services. 2013 Data Curation Pilot - University of Minnesota Libraries. The University Libraries invited faculty and researchers to participate in a data curation pilot project from May 2013-December 2013.
Given the recent memorandum by the White House to increase access to publicly funded research data, the University Libraries anticipate increased campus needs for data management and repository services. The results of the pilot are available in the report: A Workflow Model for Curating Research Data in the University of Minnesota Libraries: Report from the 2013 Data Curation Pilot openly available in our digital repository, at This project utilized our current suite of services and expertise to pilot a “data curation” service. Data curation includes archiving, preservation and access to research data, ultimately with reuse in mind. The pilot project archived five datasets from UMN faculty in our institutional repository, the University Digital Conservancy (UDC). Benefits of Participating in the Data Curation Pilot.
Pearltrees Goes Beyond Curation, Adds File Storage - Content Curation HubContent Curation Hub. By Frederic Lardinois “Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service, added the ability to upload and share any kind of file to its servers. The service started out as a tool for organizing bookmarks, but it’s long been clear that the company harbored ambitions that went beyond just being a better bookmarking services.
Last year, Pearltrees added the ability to upload photos and save notes. With today’s release, the company’s co-founder and CEO Patrice Lamothe told me, it’s getting closer to its vision to “organize everything in a social way.” Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team. Content curation and mapping service Pearltrees has decided to focus on the fact that people want to do things in groups and has as of today upgraded its core product with a groups functionality, called Pearltrees Team. Now accesible just by logging in, Pearltrees Team allows you to hook up with other people in order to create a Pearltree collaboratively in realtime.
Ideally this goes down as such: You really care about fashion so you search for fashion in the Pearltrees search box and are confronted with really elaborate visual cluster displays of fashion blogs, each blog its own ? Pearltrees Launches a Premium Service for Private Content Sharing. Pearltrees offers perhaps the most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content available today, and now the French startup is launching premium accounts that give users more privacy, for a price.
As a recap, Pearltrees lets you organise links to online content, visualized as ‘trees’ made up of ‘pearls’. So a pearltree about Apple may contain a branch about Steve Jobs, which then branches off to separate strands about different parts of his life, each linking to related content that is handpicked by users. It’s a concept that has so far spawned a Web app, an iPad app, and most recently an iPhone version.
Until now, the service has been free, open and social with, with created trees all searchable by other users. For those who would like to create their own private trees, perhaps for work purposes, the new premium service launches today.