How Dropbox is printing money - Marc Gayle. Pearltrees. Pearltrees refers to itself as "a place for your interests".[8] Functionally the product is a visual and collaborative curation tool[9][10][11][12] that allows users to organize, explore and share any URL they find online as well as to upload personal photos, files and notes.[13] The product features a unique visual interface[14][15] that allows users to drag and organize collected URLs, and other digital objects.[16] that themselves can be further organized into collections and sub-collections,[17] (URLs).
Users of the product can also engage in social/collaborative curation using a feature called Pearltrees Teams.[18] Pearltrees was founded by Patrice Lamothe, CEO,[22] Alain Cohen, CTO,[23] Nicolas Cynober, Technical Director,[24] Samuel Tissier, Ergonomy/UI[25] and Francois Rocaboy, CMO.[26] History[edit] Development of Pearltrees began in 2007. In July 2012 Pearltrees launched their iPhone app. Pearltrees introduced Pearltrees 2.0 on May 22nd, 2014. Usage[edit] Privacy[edit] Groupon's crazyness. Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store. Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, which is currently the No. 5 app in the Mac App Store.
It also didn’t hurt that the app has been prominently featured by Apple. We just finished our first week on the Mac App Store and it might have been the most important week in Evernote’s history. Here’s how it went and what we learned: 1. Meritocracy is sweet I remember one of the first computer articles that I ever read (maybe it was in Byte Magazine in the early 80s while I was in junior high). The following twenty or thirty years brought us monopolies and barriers to entry and this happy state of affairs became a dim memory. Over the past year, about 70% of Evernote’s new users came from mobile app stores, mostly iOS and Android.
A platform without a well-formed app store presents a huge challenge to developers. 2. It took a few weeks of non-trivial effort to get our existing Mac application ready for the app store. The results speak for themselves. How Twitter Can Save $50 Million: Forget TweetDeck, And Go Freemium On Its API. Editor’s note: In this guest post, serial entrepreneur Nova Spivack gives Twitter some suggestions for how to make money.
Spivack’s latest startup, Bottlenose, is looking at new ways to mine the Tweet stream. I’ve been puzzling over Twitter’s recent tactical moves around their API, Ubermedia and Tweetdeck, for a few months now, and it just doesn’t add up. In fact I think Twitter’s current strategy may take them in a direction where they end up missing out on their biggest potential win.
If Twitter continues to go down the media company path, without incorporating their API into the plan, that could not only force a large part of their ecosystem to go elsewhere, but it could deprive them of a much larger potential infrastructure revenue opportunity, and could even end up costing them the company. In light of this, I’ve been exploring an alternate path for Twitter that leverages their API in a much bigger way, and this path appears to be a better strategy.