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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.
Pearltrees makes Web curation a joy with its 'magical' new iPad app
Pearltrees Harness The iPad To Grow Their Company - Forbes
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. These can then be shared collaboratively with people you invite (perhaps some work colleagues) or the raison d’être of social networks, to help you find people with similar interests and links.Pearltrees for iPad media coverage
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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.
Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews | VentureBeat
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Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net , a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business.
[ Nicholas C. Martin is a visiting professor at American University and the United Nations University for Peace. He is also co-founder and president of TechChange , an organization that trains leaders to leverage emerging technologies for sustainable social change. TechChange specializes in creating “next-generation” e-learning content, tools and communities.
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Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team
Alexia Tsotsis works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles... → Learn MoreOver the years I've written about a lot of social bookmarking services and mind-mapping services (I even co-authored 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.
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The reason is that I have been discussing a similar concept around me for a few months – without taking any serious step towards implementing it -. So here I was, contemplating the execution of the idea and going through a range of emotions when I discovered in more details the way they designed the application. Not to mention the irony of their being French. After using it for a few days, I believe Pearltrees could change the way we browse the web. No less.
A new web paradigm
Patrice Lamothe is the CEO of PearlTrees , an unique social bookmarking service that uses the visual metaphor of "pearls" with each containing a web page. And like all visual metaphors it is best to see it rather than read a description. Here is a quick video and a sample image: "PearlTrees is a way for people to map the Internet by collecting related web pages. Although each tree is organized subjectively it becomes connected to other trees, and over time it will represent a human map of the Internet," says Mr Lamothe. He says that social bookmarking, through services such as Delicious, has failed.
A novel approach
Curation Becomes Social: Pearltrees Launches 'Team' Version - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - December 7, 2010 [For much of this year I have been working with Pearltrees, which offers a visual web site curation service based on the visual metaphor of 'pearls' please see below for an example.] Pearltrees this week launched a "Team" version of its curation service that allows groups of people to collaborate on curating a topic. Up until now each Pearltree was the responsibility of one person. Alexia Tsotsis at Techcrunch reported : 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.”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 Dec 9
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.
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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.Fireside Chat with Patrice Lamothe, CEO, Pearltrees & Robert Sco
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 Dec 14
Bookmarks with a social twist | Between the Lin
Summary: Pearltrees is a new web service that brings a social twist to bookmarking A French Web site, called Pearltrees , is developing a Web service that is trying to bring a social networking element to bookmarking - but with the connections based on content instead of people. Think Facebook and Twitter mixed with one Amazon’s recommendation system. You don’t add friends in Pearltrees. Instead, you add links.More
I feel Peartrees is truly a revolutionary tool. If someone can show me how to apply curating for content that happens in future events (something like a calender with alarm), I can't see needing anything else for staying completely informed and organized. Perhaps, Peartrees on a mobile phone is in the NEAR future. Wow. by rayofla Dec 11
Tomorrow's tweet (Oz time) should be: "Pearltrees is probably to Delicious what Windows is to DOS text only. http://bit.ly/8M7hAA cc @patricelamothe " That should score a few points around Australia... by lelaissezfaire Dec 14
Pearled! I love it - thanks a lot for this great post! by Patrice Dec 14
Hi, I wrote a post to review Pearltrees. What do you think? http://www.theotherschoolofeconomics.org/?p=567 I'd be keen to get in touch and help you guys. ( @LF_O ) by lelaissezfaire Dec 14