Pearltrees: Curation Tool Drops Flash And User Interface For Pintrest-like Format -SVW. Posted by Tom Foremski - May 23, 2014 Pearltrees (a former consulting client) this week introduced the 2.0 version of its popular web page curation tool built completely with HTML 5.0 and with a completely different user interface and metaphor.
The tool now represents web pages as a series of rectangles in a "dynamic grid" allowing users to quickly organize and share their web collections. The prior interface was based on circles, or "pearls" connected in a molecular pattern to other "pearls. " Sometimes new users thought it looked complicated and the user interface change simplifies people's first impressions. Patrice Lamothe, CEO and co-founder of Pearltrees (above) said the new interface in the latest version makes the tool more powerful and useful because of the drag and drop features, improved sharing, and content discovery technologies.
Pearltrees : nouveau design et passage au HTML5. Pearltrees Radically Redesigns Its Online Curation Service To Reach A Wider Audience. 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. Pearltrees 2.0 Launches with a Brand New User Interface. Today Pearltrees officially separated itself from its unique visual interface made of pearls and pearltrees, finally succumbing to the trend of Pinterest-like user experience.
It might be more practical for the majority of users to sort and collect content with the new Pearltrees 2.0, however, some people might regret the innovative former interface that allowed to discover related content rapidly by browsing an “ocean” of Pearls. Users still have the possibility to go back to the “pearly” version accessible from the menu in the settings section. Now the Pearltree has been replaced by the “Collection” which is basically a “folder” (or a board) containing various types of content of a topic, for instance, you can collect web pages, images, and notes, just like you can do with Evernote and Pinterest. Unlike Evernote, you are able to browse the public content collected by other users, and if you feel the need to make your content private, the premium version offers the feature.
Pearltrees @StumbleUpon.com. Saviez-vous qu’il existe des perles de S.I.Lex ? (Pearltrees et le droit) Serait-ce une perle de silex ?
(en fait, du silex rubané poli). Krzemień pasiasty kula. Par Adam Ognisty. CC-BY-SA. Source : Wikimedia Commons. Dans la jungle foisonnante des services 2.0 et des médias sociaux, il en est vers lesquels on se tourne d’abord pour leur esthétique et leur élégance, plus que pour leurs fonctionnalités. Il faut dire que Pealtrees est un outil assez atypique, situé quelque part entre les bookmarks sociaux et la cartographie heuristique, qui propose de fournir aux internautes les moyens d’ « éditer » par eux-mêmes le web en construisant sous la forme d’arbres de perles des parcours de page en page. Pearltrees est une start-up française et je vous conseille d’aller faire un tour sur le blog Cratyle.net de Patrice Lamothe, son CEO, où il développe la vision qui est à l’origine du projet et notamment la critique d’une certaine conception du web 2.0 :
The Curation Buzz... And PearlTrees. Posted by Tom Foremski - April 12, 2010 My buddy Dave Galbraith is the first person I remember to first start talking about curation and the Internet, several years ago.
Pearltrees releases a new version, without any pearls nor trees. The Paris-based startup founded in 2009 once declared: “We focus on the visual potential of Pearltrees to let people dive deeply into their interests and nearly feel them”.
Their product, offering a digital curation tool, was unique because of the visual interface voluntareely original: links and folders symbolized by rounded pearls attached together like the branches of a tree. Today, pearls and trees have disappeared to make room for a brand new and larger organisation tool. Two years ago, everyone wanted to build products around “curation” and “interest graph”. Today the keywords have shifted to “collaborative SaaS tool” and “organizing data”. Pearltrees Once Again Evolves The Way We Bookmark Our Favorite Sites. A few months ago, I wrote here about a new startup coming from France that would change the way that we view social bookmarking.
In fact, it would probably change the paradigm to which we have been accustomed to – clicking a link on our browser and going to Digg, Del.icio.us or StumbleUpon and dropping in the link to share with our friends and others on the Internet. That startup was called Pearltrees and last week at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, they announced what they consider to be a major new feature that would help make it easier for people to share their bookmarks on a whole new level.
As a refresher, Pearltrees is a content curation website designed to share your bookmarks with the entire community. There are no friends in Pearltrees. In fact, as founder Patrice Lamothe told me during our meeting, it’s akin to a library where all the users in the community have their own bookshelf. Other nice features included in this latest iteration of the service include:
LeWeb'10. Pearltrees in the news. The Internet’s Social Libraries: Pinterest and Pearltrees - Nvate. Miranda Moore Social media is something that most people use every day.
Pearltrees sur le Web. Pearltrees Hits Android, as it Prepares to Become a File Manager. Pearltrees is a content curation startup that we’ve been tracking for some time now, and today it’s launching an app on Android.
However, there’s a twist, as the launch points towards an expansion of exactly what this service is all about. As with the Web and iOS versions of Pearltrees, the Android app allows you to create, share and explore mindmap-style ‘trees’ of content. Pearltrees. Certified Site Metrics are metrics that are directly-measured from the website instead of estimated. The website owner has installed an Alexa Certify Code on the pages of their site and chosen to show the metrics publicly.
For the website owner Certified Metrics provide: A more accurate Alexa RankA private metrics Dashboard for On-Site AnalyticsThe ability to publish unique visitor and pageview counts if desired Certified Metrics are available with all Alexa Pro plans. Global Rank. Pearltrees. 9 lessons about the web and business from Pearltrees, the or. Pearltrees is a French startup that wants to change the way we organise the web.
Describing how it works would lead you to believe that it’s another social bookmarking site, which would do them injustice. Most of the social bookmarks are organized either alphabetically or chronologically, which doesn’t do much good when you try to retrieve stuff later. Also, due to how most social bookmarking sites were designed, they’ve become more like a curated list of the hottest headlines out there right now, and about what Mashable calls “velocity” – the question: how fast is this thing spreading? This idea of velocity is not what Pearltrees is about – on the contrary, it’s a tool that helps you keep an eye on context and history in the endless stream of blogs, tweets and Facebook posts.
Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews. Qq articles sur Pearltrees. Writing Center Tech Time. When is the social curation bubble going to burst? You just can’t move for social curation services right now. The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now. With this swirl of activity, then, it’s no surprise to hear that Parisian service Pearltrees — slogan “collect, organize, discover” — has just raised another $6 million of funding, led by local conglomerate Groupe Accueil.
The company, which has been running in public since 2009, welcomed the injection of funds as a way to help expand and scale up its system for bookmarking and organizing, which is based around a clustered visual interface. And it needs that scale. Pearltrees in the French Medias. 100 000 éditeurs et 10 M de pages vues par mois pour Pearltrees. Le site français de sélection et de partage des perles du web annonce, 15 mois après son lancement et trois mois après la sortie de ses nouvelles fonctionnalités collaboratives, le franchissement de deux caps symboliques: 100 000 éditeurs et 10 M de pages vues / mois. Chaque utilisateur génère plus de 100 pages vues par mois ce qui donne un aperçu de la réelle implication que génèrent la découverte et le partage de perles.
En décembre dernier, à l’occasion de la conférence LeWeb10, Pearltrees avait lancé “Team”: la possibilité de créer en temps réel avec un nombre illimité d’utilisateurs un même bouquet de perles. Une nouvelle dimension collaborative qui n’est pas étrangère au développement de nouvelles communautés sur la plateforme. Entretien exclusif avec Patrice Lamothe, créateur et CEO de Pearltrees.