Pearltrees Offers A Different View On Bookmarking. | Network Sol. A few weeks ago, I met Patrice Lamothe who showed me his newest product, called Pearltrees which I found had a pretty interesting and different interface. Just what is Pearltrees? According to the company’s website, it lets you organize the web in a way that you want.
Once you start, you’re going to be able to discover some new things that you may not have been aware of. If you imagined there being a social bookmarking tool that followed the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” methodology, then Pearltrees is probably the closest thing to it. What’s perhaps the most interesting about this type of social bookmarking is that it’s not a popularity contest like Digg or an online database like Del.icio.us. Instead, it’s more visual and you’re able to sort through your bookmarks and eventually embed them right into your blog and websites. To accomplish this, Pearltrees allows you to first have Pearls and Pearltrees.
As you can see in this image, the interface of Pearltrees is somewhat unique. Google+ VisionWiz. By Martin at December 9, 2009 | 10:45 pm | Print What Company Is Offering: Pearltrees will let users create, enrich and share the world of their interests. It is called a human-powered interest network because its content is made and organized by its community.
How It Works: Everyone creates its world and uses parts of others’ worlds to extend it. Why To Use It: Use Pearltrees to keep at hand the contents you find everyday on the Web, to discover new contents from people who share your interests, to drive them through your own Weband contribute to the first human-powered organization of the Web. More at: Internet And Web 2.0 community, network, share interest. Pearltrees is a Site to Share Information & Interests. Pearltrees is a site that enables you to submit pearls which are websites, into a pearl tree. The unique concept of this website is to meet others with the same interests, and to locate similar topics of interests. Creating pearl trees is a personal choice of topic such as work, videos, or even an environmental pearl tree. When you use the search tool, you will be led to pearls that you are looking for.
Submitting pearls can be done quite easily by downloading the toolbar for your browser. You simply click on pearl, choose the tree you created to place the pearl into, and the pearl can be viewed by clicking the button called reveal. Once you join you will fill out your profile then have options of importing your delicious bookmarks into your Pearltrees account. The visual concept of this web application is to view your interests in a design similar to a tree, and each pearl is a leaf. When you click on the pearl, another screen appears. 3D PERSPECTIVES » Blog Archive » My Grandmother’s Pearls Ain’ I’ve never been in the same room with so many Internet stars and CEOs.
Even a Queen and French Minister were there! Yep, I’ve been entranced by LeWeb09 for the past two days. This is Europe’s #1 Internet conference hosted by the Le Meur couple. There are MANY pearls to share, but it’s late so I’ll start with my favorite: pearltrees. If Twitter is the Web’s nervous system, pearltrees is its memory. Remember that. This little video will explain more, but then I’d like to share some thoughts about pearltrees and see what you think. Thought #1: Enfin! Thought #2: Ok, this is for PEOPLE to organize their own WWW, but the possibilities for COMPANIES using social media and wanting to track certain topics and projects are great!
Thought #3: I’ll bet CAD and 3D folks would enjoy and get value out of organizing 3D models and scenes as pearltrees. Three thoughts are largely sufficient after two days at a conference. Wait, one more! The answer I got was part function, part poetry. Now how’s that for heavy. Pearltrees: The Future of Social Bookmarking :sinlee.com.
Bookmarks: Soon Obsolete? - PCWorld. Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did. Here's a page with text. Some of the words are hyperlinked, so when you click on them, you open another page. If you want to save something, there's a wide variety of tools that help you do so, but most people use the bookmarking feature built into their browsers, or social bookmarking sites. But now there's a conspicuously innovative new option. A service called Pearltrees from a small company in Paris gives you a new way to organize your stuff online.
The Pearltrees interface is appealing and intuitive to use. Let's say you're following the World Cup soccer tournament. Pearltrees Update 0.7.3: Custom Avatars, Full Screen Videos, Faster Browsing and New Super Embed features. Pearltrees Offers A Different View On Bookmarking. | Small Busin. Foresight Publishing» Blog Archive » Why Pearltrees glistens lik. Early last year I was chatting to Le Laissez Faire, my go-to-guy for all things networked, about his vision for the web. He painted an alluring mental picture of a way to better track and store my web browsing, using network theory.
A more visually appealing version of del.ici.ous is the simplest way to describe it. I think my response at the time was something along the lines of “Can I haz it now please”. Sadly his entrepreneurial vision was held back by an energy sapping corporate restructure, and a heavy load of volunteer work already taking up his night hours. But as with all ideas, there are no monopolies, and late last year along came Pearltrees, turning LeLaissezFaire’s vision into reality. Pearltrees is a new way to organise and store the content you consume online. But Pearltrees goes beyond bookmarking to incorporate some interesting social elements and integration with other social media sites, including Twitter.
Store and link out or embed stories on one hot topic. Pearltrees Visualizes How You Organize the Web. This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Pearltrees Quick Pitch: Pearltrees is a new visual way to organize content on the Web and connecting people's interests. Genius Idea: How do you organize the web on the browser? Since the time of Netscape, we've been using bookmarks and a wide series of folders to manage our favorite websites and web pages.
Signing up for Pearltrees is simple, but getting used to the interface and all of its features is not as easy. Now for the organization part: you can create complex systems of pearls, known as pearltrees. Clicking on a pearl gives you a range of options that go beyond visiting your favorite website. Pearltrees takes a time investment to make it useful. Spark of Genius Series Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark. Silicon Alley Insider. Silicon Alley Insider. Elgan: Why bookmarking is obsolete. Opinion June 19, 2010 07:00 AM ET Computerworld - Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did.
But now there's a conspicuously innovative new option. The service is functionally similar in some ways to social bookmarking sites, but its core function is "curation," which Wikipedia defines as the "selection, preservation, maintenance, and collection and archiving of digital assets. " Described by one blogger as a social bookmarking tool based on "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," Pearltrees looks a bit like Google's "Wonder Wheel," but it isn't used the same way.
The Pearltrees interface is appealing and intuitive to use. How the iPad is Changing Interaction Design. Applications that looked amazing on larger multi-touch experiences like Microsoft Surface may have a more affordable consumer-facing counterpart. While the iPad has been widely criticized, many startups are thrilled by its possibilities. In mid-November we featured Paris-based Pearltrees as a new design interface for remapping Web information. We spoke to CEO Patrice Lamothe to hear his thoughts on the release of the iPad. Pearltrees is a new way of organizing information where users create mindmap-style visualizations of their favorite websites and Web-based media. Says Lamothe, “The idea of physically touching and moving items on a screen is in the DNA of Pearltrees.
Nevertheless, while Lamothe sees the potential in the tablet’s touch interface, the fact that the device does not currently support Flash is a problem for the CEO. Says Lamothe, “I believe tablets can open up an entirely new field, something I would call ‘casual browsing’. Pearltrees: A Design Interface for Remapping the Web. 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.” Rather than looking at the web as a series of linear pages, this service lets us build tree graphs of connecting arguments, share them and then break them at any time. At this point, I almost fell out of my chair thinking about the possibilities. Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris. If you’re capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you’ll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country – more so in some areas. Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S.
(plus it’s faster and costs half as much), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year. When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. It’s now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. In that time, I’ve discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com, a social startup for Francophiles.
Want to start up in France? Collect, Process and Share Your Online Research with Trailmeme. Social bookmarking sites like Delicious are useful for collecting bookmarks, but they don't allow users to really draw connections and tell stories. That's where curation-focused services like Pearltrees and Trailmeme come in. Trailmeme, which we first looked at in December, was incubated at Xerox and launches at DEMO this week.
It allows users to bookmark sites and then organize them in tidy diagrams, making it easy to highlight the relationship between different items and for readers to browse these links. While Pearltrees only allows users to display connections in a relatively simple tree structure, Trailmeme offers its users more flexibility. Earlier this week, the projects manager Venkatesh Rao showed us a number of nifty examples for what users can do with this flexibility. This trail, for example, visualizes sites about the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by arranging sites in the form of an oil rig. A New Kind of Publishing Will Users Care? Pearltrees Launches Embeds - Makes Bookmarks More Useful.
Online bookmarking tools haven’t really changed much over the last few years. Most services still present you with a basic list of tagged links. Pearltrees, however, is taking a radically different approach. The Paris-based company organizes links as a collection of “pearls” that are connected by a mind map-like tree graph. Starting today, you can also embed these collections in your own blog posts. The company, which launched a new beta version of its service last month, notes that these new embeds will give bloggers and journalists the ability to present their readers with a new way to explore a topic in depth. The Flash-based Pearltrees embed opens up new links in an overlay, so readers stay on your site while they are exploring your links.
Pearltrees also gives you the ability to share links with other users in real time and to subscribe to other users’ collections. To get started, simply sign up for an account here. Pearltrees Beta Launches on Wednesday: Will Let You Archive the Links You Share on Twitter. At this year's LeWeb conference, Pearltrees will launch the beta version of its bookmarking and curation service. In this beta, Pearltrees will introduce some interesting features for Twitter users.
Starting Wednesday, Pearltrees users will be able to connect their Twitter accounts to the service. Pearltrees will continuously scan your Twitter account and index every link you share on Twitter. Currently, shared links on Twitter are often quickly forgotten, but thanks to the new Pearltrees connection, you will be able to easily create an archive of all the links you have shared with your friends.
We got a chance to discuss Pearltrees and its upcoming launch with the company's CEO Patrice Lamothe in the startup's Paris offices today. Thanks to the new Twitter feature, which will put all of the links you share on Twitter into a drop box on Pearltrees, you can now easily create a complete archive of all the content you share. Also Coming This Week: Real-Time Updates API Coming Soon. Curation Startup Says It Captures 10,000 Links a Day.
French startup Pearltrees offers a very unique interface for organizing and sharing collections of links from around the web. Tomorrow the company will release a new, faster version of its application and announce that it has passed 2 million links curated in 7 months since going live. That means an average of 10,000 links have been bookmarked in Pearltrees every day since launch, and presumably many more now that the site has grown. Last month the company announced that it raised $1.6 million in venture funding. I love what Pearltrees is trying to do, most people I talk to love the idea, and it’s good to hear the service is getting so much traction. I’m waiting until the promised iPad version comes out before getting too excited about it. It’s hard to know what percentage of those thousands of links are pulled in automatically from synced Twitter accounts.
What do you think about Pearltrees? Have you found yourself using the service regularly, though? Venture Beat. Pearltrees: A Unique Way to Discover & Organize. Behind the Scenes with Pearltrees. Ubergizmo. Technologizer. Rww. Pearltrees lunch June 2010. CNN. Michelle Kraus: The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 9/11. Scoble about French entrepreneur. Interview Scoble. Robert Scoble: It's not often anymore tha... Techcrunch. Pearltrees Visualizes TechCrunch Disrupt. Pearltrees launches Twitter sync and reveals its social system. Social Today Feels Like Search A Decade Ago: Lots Of Noise And L. Pearltrees reviews. Curation versus aggregation represents human web versus machine web...
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