Behind the Scenes with Pearltrees « MobileGlobe's Yoann Valensi on Cheap Calls #tg09 | Main | Pavlov and the Crepe » December 17, 2009 Behind the Scenes with Pearltrees #tg09 The video clips take a deeper look at Pearltrees from behind the scenes with Patrice Lamothe at their Paris office last week. Below is a shot taken of some of the engineers and product masters behind the machine. December 17, 2009 in Europe, On France, Social Media, TravelingGeeks, Videos, Web 2.0 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Behind the Scenes with Pearltrees #tg09 : Comments Post a comment
Matthew Buckland Fresh off the plane, I’m on the road with the Travelling Geeks, and the first startup on our schedule is an innovative Paris-based social bookmarking operation, Pearl Trees. Their founder and CEO, Patrice Lamothe, says the site offers users a new way to “curate” or organise their lives on the web. They’ve secured about US$3,5m in funding for what is essentially a type of visual social bookmarking site, offering a relatively unique drag-and-drop interface. The UI may appeal to some, but not to others. Pearl Trees is still in Alpha (0.4.1) and by Lamothe’s own admission it’s still early days. I find it interesting that the site offers no way for a user to search through his or her bookmarks. Pearl Trees also takes us back to a “real-world” hierarchical approach of organising information, which we know tends not to work on the web where information is endless, and you can’t predict what that information will be. Pearl Trees is a good start, and I generally like their approach.
VisionWiz By Martin at December 9, 2009 | 10:45 pm | Print What Company Is Offering: Pearltrees will let users create, enrich and share the world of their interests. It is called a human-powered interest network because its content is made and organized by its community. How It Works: Everyone creates its world and uses parts of others’ worlds to extend it. Why To Use It: Use Pearltrees to keep at hand the contents you find everyday on the Web, to discover new contents from people who share your interests, to drive them through your own Weband contribute to the first human-powered organization of the Web. More at: Internet And Web 2.0 community, network, share interest
Owni.fr Pearltrees est une start-up particulièrement remarquée, qui a été écoutée attentivement à l'occasion de l'événement LeWeb'09. [...] Patrice Lamothe, infatigable évangélisateur du web et des usages numériques, mais aussi passionné de sciences dures et de sciences humaines, a répondu à quelques questions des visiteurs de la soucoupe. Pearltrees est une start-up particulièrement remarquée, qui a été écoutée attentivement à l’occasion de l’événement LeWeb’09. Pearltrees propose un outil qui innovant permet de créer très simplement des séries de liens dynamiques sous forme de perles, en quelques clics, puis de les assembler en les rapprochant par un simple glisser-déposer : on obtient des sortes d’arbres thématiques, voire généalogiques si l’on enchaine plusieurs niveaux. Patrice Lamothe, infatigable évangélisateur du web et des usages numériques, mais aussi passionné de sciences dures et de sciences humaines, a répondu à quelques questions pour les visiteurs de la soucoupe. Surtout pas !
Scoble about French entrepreneur On Tuesday I joined up with the Traveling Geeks (a band of journalists/bloggers/influentials who visit startups around the world, picture of them above in a Paris subway station) in Paris and we saw a ton of startups. Some of them, like Stribe, were very good. But overall they just didn’t measure up. In fact, they even got me to be rude to them, which caught everyone off guard. I’ve been thinking about why they got me so angry ever since, and that’s what this post is about. First, if you meet with journalists, influentials, and bloggers who are coming from outside your country I assume you want to build a world brand. So, since you were meeting with us and since we’ve spent precious resources getting there and had sizeable opportunity costs, I figure entrepreneurs should be better prepared. 1. Four CEOs told me their companies weren’t on Twitter and that they didn’t have enough time to join Twitter. 2. 2b. 3. 4. 4b. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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
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. 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. We want to create a new type of activity on the Web and to make it mainstream.
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. Here is a quick video and a sample image: "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." Revenue could come from several sources. Try it for yourself.