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Pearltrees Visualizes How You Organize the Web 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. Name: Pearltrees Quick Pitch: Pearltrees is a new visual way to organize content on the Web and connecting people's interests. Genius Idea: How do you organize the web on the browser? Signing up for Pearltrees is simple, but getting used to the interface and all of its features is not as easy. Now for the organization part: you can create complex systems of pearls, known as pearltrees. Clicking on a pearl gives you a range of options that go beyond visiting your favorite website. Pearltrees takes a time investment to make it useful. Spark of Genius Series Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Azure Services platform for their website hosting and storage needs.

PearlTrees: A Novel Approach To Human Mapping Of The Internet - Posted by Tom Foremski - November 16, 2009 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. "PearlTrees is a way for people to map the Internet by collecting related web pages. He says that social bookmarking, through services such as Delicious, has failed. Social bookmarking has failed, he says, because tagging links is not a good way to organize the web. The company has several thousand users in France and will formally announce the service in the US around February. Mr Lamothe says that a high percentage of users are women, and many users aren't geeks. PearlTrees has an excellent user interface and is designed to allow people to learn its features through what Mr Lamothe describes as "social play." PearlTrees have all the social sharing capabilities you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.

Web : la fin des moteurs de recherche? : LesInrocks.com Le web 2.0 a fait naître un paradoxe : la multiplication des contenus en ligne n’a pas entraîné la démocratisation de l’accès à ces informations. Au contraire, face au trillion de pages web disponibles, le système Page Rank de Google, c’est un peu l’éclairage à la bougie. Si les agrégateurs de type Del.icio.us, les systèmes de flux et les réseaux sociaux présentent à différents niveaux des alternatives enthousiasmantes, les visions futuristes de la recherche et de l’organisation de l’information sur la toile semblent s’organiser autour d’un paradigme d’apparence simple : l’homme ou la machine ? Les algorithmes complexes du web sémantique constituent un premier élément de réponse. Pour autant, l’ambition “d’utiliser l’expertise des journalistes pour filtrer le web et donner du sens à l’information”, comme l’exprime le blogueur Narvic sur son site novovision.fr dans un article consacré à Publish2, demeure encore dévolue à une communauté éditrice restreinte.

Pearltrees Pearltrees.com is a great place to organize, share, and store websites for current, future, or collaborative use. More than a standard social bookmarking website, Pearltrees allows you to create trees of sites to show relationships or even the order in which to browse websites. It is extremely simple to sign up, free, and easy to use once you have joined. To use it, you can install an add-on to your browser, use a bookmarklet, or just use your home spot to paste in websites that you want to add to your own pearl tree. There are "big pearls" that function as folders for multiple strands of Internet pearls. tag(s): bookmarks (59), DAT device agnostic tool (191), webquests (29) In the Classroom In the simplest form, Pearltrees could be used to store links for classes that you are teaching or taking.

Pearltrees: un peu de mémoire en plus Actuellement, nous sommes quelques blogueurs à tester Pearltrees. C'est un outil qui permet, principalement, de sauvergarder des pages web. Donc, on peut dire que c'est un système de favoris (bookmark). Avec pearltrees, on peut organiser visuellement ses favoris sous forme de cartes. Pour comprendre comment on peut l'utiliser, j'ai représenté dans un shéma, un circuit d'information, tel que je le pratique personnellement. J'appelle ça un circuit d'information, parce que l'information circule. Au début du circuit d'information, il y a les informations qui nous parviennent, en grand nombre. Lire et filtrer Toutes ces informations, vous les lisez. Et, surtout, vous les filtrez. Une fois que vous avez lu et filtré ces informations, vous allez en partager certaines. Ne plus oublier Mais, une partie de ces informations tomberont dans l'oubli. En effet les outils "sociaux" sont dans une logique de "stream". Pearltrees permet de sauvegarder ces informations et de les organiser dans des cartes.

Q&A: Patrice Lamothe of Pearltrees on personal organisation of t 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. Pearltrees was the darling of the 2009 LeWeb conference, which included a keynote and product demonstration by pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe (no relation). I met Patrice while in Paris at the LeWeb conference. Web entrepreneurs create products or applications that they feel fills a hole in the web experience. Pearltrees let you manipulate Web content to create something different: a personal organization of those contents. Why would you do this? Eventually, you want to use other's human organization of the Web to discover new contents you are interested in or just to let yourself be guided through a human curated Web. Pearltrees offers an interesting tool to newsrooms.

Pearltrees - THE tutorial personnel Imaginons qu'au cours d'une navigation vous tombiez sur une page web exceptionnelle (notre illustration). Vous vous dites "Tiens Tiens, c'est vraiment bien, il faut que je me la rappellepour l'intégrer à mon dossier Clearstream, celui où je présente la manière dont les blogs traitent de cette affaire grotesque, dans mon dossier général sur les affaires d'état". C'est un exemple. Vous pouvez aussi apprendre par coeur l'adresse de mon blog : c'est le seul site utile. Néanmoins, j'ai un tutorial à faire pour vous montrer comment lâcher une perle sans bouger une fesse. Voilà. Tu as chargé la barre dans ton navigateur et tu as maintenant, en haut à gauche, un truc qui s'affiche et qui ressemble à ça : Comment ça, "non" ? Va l'installer. A côté de "in", il est écrit "account". Quand tu aura manipulé un peu ton truc, tu auras vu qu'il peut être composé de différents Pearltrees. "In" ça veut dire, en anglais : "Le Pearltrees où que je vais enregistrer mon truc". Ta page de blog est affichée.

Pearltrees: A Unique Way to Discover & Organize « Zorap Creates Traveling Geeks Virtual Geek Pad for France Blogging Tour | Main | Orange Highlights at LeWeb #leweb » December 07, 2009 Pearltrees: A Unique Way to Discover & Organize on the Web Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe meets us at the door of their offices on rue de charonne in a funky, artsy area of Paris that houses other early stage companies and ad agencies, not unlike San Francisco's SOMA in many ways. Coffee waiting? He's not an unknown personality in Silicon Valley so some of us had heard of, tried, tested and demoed Pearltrees before. "Building an organization on the web touches on how you organize your stuff in the real world. Pause....a nearby church bell rings on the half hour. Pearltrees allows you to get in touch with others who share mutual interests around the way you 'organize yourself on the web.' Visually it looks a bit like the brain......not unlike a mind map, but that's not the point of the app, which is all done in flex btw. Who uses it? TrackBack Comments

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