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Believe me when I say you've never used a web application quite like pearltrees . With this application, you can literally map your personal web. Take all of the bookmarks scattered across your web browser, assign them a category and you've got a pearltree. It's a new way of seeing the web. Think of it as Web 2.5.
Q&A: Patrice Lamothe of Pearltrees on personal organisation of t
Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Likewise a post by Brian Solis has been retweeted thousands of times.
3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay
Thought #1 : Enfin! FINALLY a way to stock and share those excellent tweets before they get purged off the Twitter servers! (Just activate the nifty Twitter connection for this bit of the magic.) 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 #4 : The visuals remind me of some of the visual search engines that Oleg has blogged about , and also those diagrams I used to draw for teen students when I needed to explain tricky subjects. So, about Thought #4, I asked one of the pearltrees guys where they got the idea for the pearltrees visual organization.
Pearltrees | 3D PERSPECTIVES
Silicon Alley Insider
The conference is really slick. Last year's edition was widely panned for organizational troubles, but this year's is just swanky. Organization is as smooth as can be for such a huge conference (even though it ran over by over an hour). Wifi is fast and plentiful. The roster of speakers, attendees and startups is impressive. Two thumbs up for the delicious French food (even smelly cheeses!)
Mashable
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.[France] Paris-based Pearltrees has been catching interest around the web the last few days not least because a gaggle influential Silicon Valley bloggers have descended on Paris for Le Web , but mainly because of its interesting model for visually mapping how people collect and share information on the Web. But today the startup opens the kimono on its full system. They will announce two new things today: Twitter synchronization (enabling a user to create a pearl automatically from Twitter and to tweet automatically from their new Pearltrees), Pearltrees search, Real time discussion and connection. Pearltrees is effectively visual social bookmarking and therefore has the potential to be more widely used than perhaps the traditional alternatives. If you recall, Twitter was a stream, but with people’s pictures. Pearltrees similarly uses these visual clues.
TechCrunch
The Web has gotten so big and so social that regular bookmarking has become practically useless. We needed a better way to find and organize the content that meets our interests. Sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon are helpful at suggesting interesting items, but less so in the curation and sharing of one’s own Web collection. Enter Pinterest, GimmeBar, and Pearltrees, the latest darlings of the social bookmarking world, which are gathering momentum with Millennial users who are all about sharing what they’re into. Here’s a brief overview of each.
Social Bookmarking And Curation: Pinterest, Pearltrees, GimmeBar | Ypulse
How to save and share your bookmarks with Pearltrees | KPIs.co - The Key Performance Indicators blog
It seems, despite avid protests that this is not the case on Delicious’s part, the brass at Yahoo have decided that as far as they’re concerned online bookmarking pioneer Delicious.com can go the way of the Dodo. While it isn’t clear what exactly the immediate implications of the announcement are, and it’s very likely that as a web research resource the site will remain relevant for some time to come, it’s clear that Delicious is now a risky choice for storing and sharing your bookmarks. There are a wealth of alternatives – Google Bookmarks , Xmarks , and Diigo all come to mind. But after spending some time on each of these services, my choice is, and has been for some time now, a slightly less known option. I use Pearltrees .
Pearltrees: The Future of Social Bookmarking :sinlee.com
After trying out Pearltrees today, I have to say I’m incredibly impressed. It was featured on CNN.com as a possible next big thing on the web and since its beta launched on Wednesday, there has been massive scrutiny in the online world over its social-network-meets-categorized-mind-map-bookmarking style. The webhounds have definitely stirred and are barking up this flash-based (pearl)tree.And there are social bookmarking sites, which needs no introduction at all. But things are about to change, with an innovative solution provided by a small Parisian company. www.pearltrees.com puts your links into a dynamic, sharable web of connections. This service is functionally similar to social bookmarking, but the core function is “curation”, which Wikipedia defines as “curation is the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of assets for current and future reference." The artworks and artifacts in this case would be the digital assets. However, it is very frustrating to have more than 300 bookmarks in a typical bookmarking service.
The future of bookmarking
Pearltrees visualization tools add power to search and discovery
Nearly four years ago, I spent a week at a multimedia bootcamp at UC Berkeley put on by the Knight Digital Media Center. It was a wonderful experience, not only because of the practical skills I picked up but also because my team was assigned to interview Jeff Heer , then a graduate student studying data visualization. Our finished multimedia package was rough around the edges, but had some great visuals and detail on Heer's quest to help people understand the power of social relationships on the distribution of information. I immediately thought of Heer when I started poking around with a new social-visualization tool called Pearltrees that's currently in beta. It's a completely different way of organizing content, a mix of old-school bookmarking and drag-and-drop organizing to fit the new, flexible world of Web 2.0 and 3.0.Connecting through Content |
If the major characteristic of Web 1.0 is to connect people to content, than Web 2.0 allows people to connect with other people. Web 3.0 connects content to people, and Pearltrees is a great way to see how this works. Most things about Pearltrees are backwards, although still intuitive (because of a cool user interface).Pearltrees!!!!
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Recently, I’ve been working with a new tool that I think anyone that uses the web regularly is really going to appreciate: Pearltrees. The company – which is based in France – has been developing this tool for a few years but in the last few days they have released their latest version and in my opinion it is now ready for prime time. In a nutshell, Pearltrees allows you to very quickly and easily discover, organize and share the things you find on the web. This tool, which is truly a social web curation and collaboration tool, will enable you to quickly see a whole constellation of content specifically related to a post.PearlTrees better than bookmarking for organizing stuff online
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.Organize the web – visually - Mind Mappi
An interesting review - even though it might be one of the worth review pearltree had so far - the detailled analysis of pearltrees usability is very usefull and the feedback are always actionable. One surprizing thing however is that many of the authors suggestion are... already in place. Such as writing "home" at the top of the interface, or enabling users to pearl in just one click. Did he test Pearltrees on a previous version? In any case, I may very much want to take an other look at it now :-) by Dec 2
A pearl revolution?
Pearltrees' first blog post in SF! by Dec 2