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Pearltrees: A Design Interface for Remapping the Web - ReadWrite
It's rare to look at a bookmarking tool and feel convinced that it's going to win a design award. Pearltrees is such a product. The French site offers us a new way to explore and contextualize the web. In what looks like a mind map structure, users collect "pearls" (links to articles, videos and web pages) and drag and drop them to form a body of knowledge that folds and expands upon itself. In an interview with Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe, ReadWriteWeb found that company already has a loyal user base including our friends at ReadWriteFrance. Said Lamothe, "We wanted a type of game play that was playful to use and map the web...and the fact that you can group and ungroup content easily means that you can re-catalogue it and keep it current."
The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us. In the past fifty years of computation there have been two great trends in this relationship: the mainframe relationship, and the PC relationship.
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Academics and practitioners from the semantic web community are seeking the involvement of usability professionals as they define the "next generation web." Recently, workshops at various conferences have focused on user needs and user interaction. Over the course of 2005-2007, I began collecting examples of current innovations related to user interaction/design for the semantic web. This page serves as a reference for usability/design practitioners as they explore the subject and consider the role of semantic web opportunities and offerings in their work. Presentation slides (pdf) are available from the Usability Professionals' Association conference, June 2006.