Check out Pearltrees for iPad. Pearltrees Launches iPad App That Lets Users Connect Through Their Curated Interests. Posted by Tom Foremski - October 11, 2011 (Pearltrees is a consulting client.)
Pearltrees, a French-based curation platform, today released an iPad app that lets users easily explore the curated collections of websites created by more than 200,000 people, via a unique visual and touch interface that serves a discovery engine based on interests. The company has the world's largest community of online curators on its platform. Many work in teams to create a Pearltree, which consists of "pearls" -- each is a visual metaphor for a web page.
Users can share and collect each other's Pearltrees, creating an ever expanding web topology generated by humans and their interests, rather than algorithms. The free application takes full advantage of the iPad's touch interface to enable users to quickly discover collections of websites with simple swipes of their finger. "This is the first time that you can see an interest graph in action," said Patrice Lamothe, CEO and co-founder of Pearltrees.
Pearltrees brings your interest graph' to the iPad. One of the more buzzword-y buzzwords in Silicon Valley right now is the "interest graph," which is supposed to connect people and the topics that they're interested in.
Lots of startups promise to tap into the interest graph, but Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe says a new app from his startup is "maybe the first time you actually see an interest graph. " The new feature, which Lamothe variously describes as "visual discovery" (his pitch to the tech press) and "related interests" (what it's actually called in the app), is included in the just-launched iPad application from the previously Web-only company. Related interests have also been added to the Pearltrees website, but Lamothe is clearly more excited by the iPad version—he warned that the Web experience probably isn't quite as good. The New Pearltrees iPad App Enables A New Kind of Content Curation. Pearltrees Harness The iPad To Grow Their Company. Pearltrees for iPad. Pearltrees is a free, visual and collaborative library that lets you organize web pages, files, photos and notes to retrieve and share them anywhere easily.
Leverage Pearltrees’ community to discover amazing stuff related to your interests and enrich your account. Retrieve anything you keep in Pearltrees from your computer, mobile and tablet. What people are saying about Pearltrees: "The most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content" The Next Web"Pearltrees puts a library in your pocket" Digital Trends"This app makes a wonderful experience navigating the pearls" Forbes Features: • Have everything you like at your fingertips all the time• Access your pearltrees from anywhere: computers, iPads and iPhones• Keep everything you like: web pages, files, photos and notes• Browse your favorite things blazingly fast• Discover interesting stuff in your area of interests• Collaborate on your favorite topics• Share all of this.
Pearltrees Visual composition Curation for iPad « TechGeer. Pearltrees for iPad is a Must-Have App. "Tell me when it's an iPad app," I've told the team behind web curation startup Pearltrees over and over again.
That day has finally come and what was a clumsy, Flash-based web experience is now a gorgeous, brilliant iPad app. Happy day, the Pearltrees iPad app is finally here! Pearltrees is a link saving and sharing service that uses a beautiful visual metaphor - links are saved as floating glass orbs just made for touching, swiping and zooming. You might be confused by the iPad app if you haven't used the web interface a little already. You can go be my buddy here. Above, my collection of links related to Pearltrees. Pearltrees makes Web curation a joy with its 'magical' new iPad app. Not many tech CEOs would have the guts to describe their products as “magical” and as delivering “pure happiness”, but that’s exactly how Pearltrees‘ Patrice Lamothe describes the startup’s iPad app released today.
You know what? He may just be right. Pearltrees is a service that takes a visual approach to Web curation. Launched late last year with its browser-based version, it allows you to create networks of ‘pearls’ on screen. Each pearl is a link to a piece of content and you can connect them together in whatever way you choose into a ‘pearltree’. Everything’s public on Pearltrees, so searching for ‘iPhone’, for example, will bring up all the iPhone-relates pearltrees created by 200,000 users the service has amassed so far. Now the iPad app brings a whole new dimension to both curation and content discovery. That’s where the discovery element of the app comes in.
Scroll your finger slowly to uncover closely related pearls, or scroll quickly to see a wider variety of related content. Pearltrees: Slick Social Bookmarking and Curation Tool Now on iPad. WHAT: A web-based and iPad application to organize and curate your social life online.
Users collect, or bookmark, web pages, tweets, Google+ posts and more, and arrange them in pearls or pearltrees. A pearl holds anything interesting you find on the web with a URL. iPhone Apps Update - Color Uncovered, Pearltrees for iPad, ReaddleDocs for iPad. App of the Week: Pearltrees. Title: Pearltrees Platform: iPad (iOS 3.2 or later) Cost: Free I’ve known about the Pearltrees website for quite awhile but never found using it that easy or intuitive.
Then I read the review of the new Pearltrees iPad app on ReadWriteWeb and thought, “I have to try this out.” The idea of the service is to provide users the ability to create visual mind map curated lists of websites. (The websites are the pearls on the tree in Pearltrees.) Once I started working with the iPad app I realized there is a lot of potential in the idea of a curated list of websites represented in a mind map. To get started you create a Pearltree on a particular topic – say teens and libraries – and then add pearls (websites) to the tree by typing in a URL, or by using the Pearltrees bookmarklet that makes it easy to be at a site in Safari on the iPad and add the URL to one of your trees.