Spaaze. Pearltrees Once Again Evolves The Way We Bookmark Our Favorite Sites | Small Business Conversations by Network Solutions. Pearltrees; versatile bookmarking/guiding/presenting tool. I've been exploring a resource called Pearltrees, which is rather fun. It's partly a mind-mapping resource, part guided tour, part collaborative tool. I've done a quick video about it that you might care to watch, or if you prefer, just read on below!
This is a tool that would be great to use in a training group or brainstorming session. Simply set up the Pearltree, get ideas, site details and so on from other people, pop them into the tree as appropriate and create the resource. This could then be embedded somewhere else for future reference, and people could comment on the resources included in the tree. Alternatively, use a Pearltree as a site map. Assess the content of something that you're creating. In an education field you could have great fun - get each child/student to create a tree for a subject and then compare them on screen.
I'd love to see how this would work in a touchscreen environment - I can just imagine touching a Pearl and watching it expand as I do - great fun. What is The Memex? Xerox Presents Trailmeme. Last week Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt wrote a guest article for the Wall St Journal, discussing the need for new forms of newspaper publishing to replace the old print paradigm. Another not-so-new paradigm, but one more suited to the networked computer age we live in today, is Vannevar Bush's 1945 pre-hypertext concept the Memex. Trailmeme is a product by Xerox that models itself on The Memex. It's a destination site for Xerox Trails, which is being promoted as "a new kind of Web-based publishing technology.
" We last saw a product attempting a Memex-like service over 3 years ago, when we reviewed Trailfire in 2006. Trailmeme enables users to map a set of web pages or other digital objects. So what is the Memex? Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Memex is. Trailmeme includes a "collaboratively filtered" destination site, a bookmarklet and a toolbar for consumers, and a set of plug-ins compatible with WordPress and Media Wiki. Personal Memex. The Vision Over the last few years, I’ve been interested in the fields of Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) and Personal Learning Environments (or PLE). I’ve been a knowledge worker as long as I can remember, and have subsequently searched long and hard for numerous software applications and systems to help me better process, organize, and retrieve information. I’ve tried many different free and commercial solutions (outliners, PIMs, personal knowledge bases, mind mapping software, notebooks/pad, etc.), but none of then were 100% complete in my mind.
Then, In 2006 I came across Vannevar Bush, and learned about his amazing vision for the Memex (or “memory extender”). The memex is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. “Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. What is It, and What Can It Do? Core Components in Use. My Trails Network.