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.
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Pearltrees in action Based in Paris and launched around the world less than two years ago, Pearltrees launched their iPad application today. Given the user base of the iPad, it’s one of the smartest moves Pearltrees could have made. Up until now, the web-based service has proved to be a bit of an underground hit, with passionate users and curators collecting little bits of the internet and placing them in a their own information schematics – the Pearltrees that the company gets its name from.
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Today’s Cool Site of the Day is PearlTrees , a very cool way to create a visual wheel of your favorite bookmarks by category. Rather than describe all the cool good vibes you’ll get from this tool, just create an account and start playing (I’ll be sharing my ‘cool stuff’ pearltree with some of you soon). Pearltrees blows away xmarks , google bookmarks , and diigo (although I also use and appreciate diigo, pearltrees is just more….fun)
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.
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Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees . The French startup had a stand large enough to rival tech heavyweights like Google and Zynga.
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With its slick visual interface for bookmarking content, Pearltrees is unique enough that I’ve been both impressed and slightly skeptical that a mass audience will actually use it. But it looks like the site has found plenty of users. The French startup just announced that it crossed two big milestones in March: It has more than 100,000 users curating links, and it received more than 10 million pageviews. Not only does that show the concept is resonating, but it also suggests Pearltrees could reach the scale where it can build a real business around advertising or by offering premium accounts for publishers.
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Visual Maps of Readings and Other Multimedia: We also sought to find new ways to visualize course content (readings, videos, case studies). One tool we really like is called PearlTrees , a visual social bookmark and curation tool. We created our unit in PearlTrees by adding links to all the web-based readings, videos and articles for the course and then embedded it into our LMS. Seeing all the content in one space gave participants a better top-level understanding of the material and afforded them the flexibility to focus on the content they found most interesting, all without having to leave the class website.
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Scoop.it is often described as Tumblr without the blog. It offers users the opportunity to “be the curator of your favorite topic” and suggests that visitors use the site to “create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant social media streams. Publish it to people sharing the same interest.”
Over the years I've written about a lot of social bookmarking services and mind-mapping services (I even co-author a chapter of a book on mind-mapping). Pearltrees is a service that combines social bookmarking with mind-mapping. Using Pearltrees you can bookmark websites and arrange your bookmarks into webs or mind-maps of related topics. For example, this Pearltree contains links to stories, images, and videos about news from Libya.
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Ideally this goes down as such: You really care about fashion so you search for fashion in the Pearltrees search box and are confronted with really elaborate visual cluster displays of fashion blogs, each blog its own “pearl.” You decide that anyone who likes The Sartorialist is probably a good egg and click on the puzzle piece in the Pearltrees detail window in order to ask if you can join the team. If the team leader accepts, you then can see all the Pearltree curation happening as it happens as well as comment on individual Pearltree decisions. You can also share your team curation easily via Facebook and Twitter. Alexia Tsotsis at Techcrunch reported : Pearltrees is part of a growing number of companies that offer curation services.
We are exploring possibilities with the Team approach. It's exciting to watch the Pearltree being organised in real time by another member of the team. It's intimate! by pauljacobson Dec 9
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Ideally this goes down as such: You really care about fashion so you search for fashion in the Pearltrees search box and are confronted with really elaborate visual cluster displays of fashion blogs, each blog its own “pearl.” You decide that anyone who likes The Sartorialist is probably a good egg and click on the puzzle piece in the Pearltrees detail window in order to ask if you can join the team. If the team leader accepts, you then can see all the Pearltree curation happening as it happens as well as as comment on individual Pearltree decisions.
Whilst Pearltrees certainly has many layers and potentials that will be uncovered as people start to use it, I wanted to focus in this post on its ability to allow users to become the cartographers of the internet by creating a mental image of the way they browse. It is quite a tautology to write that the web is a network. Pick any text book on the topic and you are likely to find an illustration looking like one of those two pictures: The reason for this Nostradamusean prediction is that that they are bringing to life a paradigm at the core of the development of the internet since its beginning 40 years ago: The science of networks.
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The simplicity of the design and concept is intriguing because it allows for potentially unique collections of web sites, and for some novel uses. I want to try it for publishing a blog post and showing the research that went into a story. Or to curate a subject such as the ongoing Rupert Murdoch battle with Google. Or maybe crowd-source a news story... There are lots of permutations of PearlTrees that can be created because each "pearl" can contain other PearlTrees seemingly ad infinitum "we don't yet know what the limit is," says Mr Lamothe. PearlTrees have all the social sharing capabilities you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.
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Good publlicity - clear video - time to update the animation. Do a Steve Jobs sometime ie. demonstrate the finest curation that Pearltrees can offer. By the way, I have a Glass account and will start experimenting with it in For Sharing where the team is forming. Perhaps you will join us? by pauljacobson Dec 14
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