The Curation Buzz... And PearlTrees Posted by Tom Foremski - April 12, 2010 My buddy Dave Galbraith is the first person I remember to first start talking about curation and the Internet, several years ago. He even named his company Curations, and created a tool/site for curation: Wists. Today, much is written about curation and the Internet but it all seems mostly talk because we don't really have the tools we need. Robert Scoble writes about The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators "... who does curation? Reading Robert Scoble's post on curation, it almost seemed as if he were describing PearlTrees, a company I've recently been working with in an advisory role, when he talks about "info atoms and molecules." ...what are info atoms? PearlTrees is very similar, it's a curation tool that uses "pearls" as a visual metaphor for a web site, a Twitter post, an image, or a video. I wouldn't be surprised to see PearlTrees being published in all sorts of online documents such as press releases, white papers, and more. More to come...
Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team Content curation and mapping service Pearltrees has decided to focus on the fact that people want to do things in groups and has as of today upgraded its core product with a groups functionality, called Pearltrees Team. Now accesible just by logging in, Pearltrees Team allows you to hook up with other people in order to create a Pearltree collaboratively in realtime. 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.
Le nouveau Pearltrees, tactile et collaboratif en temps réel Le site français de sélection et de partage des perles du web a profité de la conférence LeWeb10 pour présenter une nouvelle version que son CEO, Patrice Lamothe qualifie de « révolutionnaire ». Première nouveauté, la fonction tactile, qui offre une expérience assez bluffante mais le véritable gap technologique pour Pearltrees s’appelle « Team »: la possibilité de créer en temps réel avec un nombre illimité d’utilisateurs un même bouquet de perles. Une dimension collaborative qui donne un nouveau sens à cette solution ludique de partage d’informations. Pearltrees continue de séduire les internaute américains qui représentent plus d’un tiers de ses visites. Pour rappel, la start-up a opéré une 3ème levée de fonds de 1,3 millions d’euros avant l’été (après 1 million en 2008, 1,2 millions en 2009). Entretien avec Patrice Lamothe, CEO de Pearltrees
pearltrees, socializing and curating content on the web | Smart Data Collective Content of any type is not useful unless you can find it, organize it and interact with it. In the enterprise companies have tried many different schemes to try and get business content collected in a central repository, organized, tagged, version controlled, and searchable. This has often taken the route of "content management" systems. Curation of content is a concept that is gaining momentum across various media types online. I had the pleasure this week of chatting with Patrice Lamothe, CEO of French startup pearltrees and since that meeting joining and using the pearltrees system. The concept is fairly simple really. Overall I'm starting to think that pearltrees is useful and that curation or socialization of content has a lot of application in the enterprise.
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Pearltrees : la bibliothèque aux 100 milles curateurs Lorsqu’on lui demande quel est son parcours, il pousse un soupir “j’ai fait pas mal de choses” : ingénieur, chercheur en sociologie, consultant en stratégie dans les médias…. L’idée de Pearltrees lui serait venue alors qu’il publiait un papier dans la revue française de sciences politiques en 2006 sur la théorie des réseaux mais qui “n’avait rien à voir avec le web”. A l’époque, on se demandait si des initiatives comme Wikipedia et Youtube allaient fonctionner. Deux ans plus tard, Pearltrees, est “un petit projet dans un appart en 2008”. Il part de ce constat simple : il y a énormément de contenu sur le Web, comment laisser l’internaute se l’approprier en l’organisant à sa guise ? Une bibliothèque augmentée Tout d’abord Pearltrees permet d’organiser le contenu que vous visitez sur le Web. Le pearltrees de TedX Paris Rajoutez y une pointe de curation et l’on obtient cette nouveauté qui fait mouche. « Organiser le contenu comme une bibliothèque, mais ouverte .»
Curation Becomes Social: Pearltrees Launches 'Team' Version 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.” Pearltrees is part of a growing number of companies that offer curation services. In addition, pre-fetching of web site content means that it is possible to browse a Pearltree faster than surfing from site to site. A reporter, for example, could grab that media kit Pearltree and use it in preparing a report.
Pearltrees: la nouvelle perle des accros du web Fondé en décembre 2009 par Patrice Lamothe, Pearltrees n’en finit pas de s’étendre sur le net. Réunissant au départ quelques centaines de geeks, cet outil de « curation », est désormais visité par plus d’un million d’internautes par mois, tandis que plus de 350 000 personnes contribuent à son enrichissement. Pour comprendre le succès grandissant de Pearltrees, je me suis entretenu avec Antoine Msika. Diplômé de l’EDHEC Business School de Lille en 2009, il est depuis Juin 2010 le Community Manager français de Pearltrees. "Cultiver ses intérêts" Benjamin Valla/Horizons Médiatiques : Pouvez-vous me présenter Pearltrees et les principales fonctionnalités de cet outil ? L’un des Pearltrees les plus riches du moment, c’est bien sûr celui consacré à l’élection Présidentielle en France Quels sont les avantages de Pearltrees pour les utilisateurs du web ? « 1 million de visiteurs par mois, 350 000 contributeurs » Combien de personnes utilisent Pearltrees et quel est leur profil ?
Social Curation Service Pearltrees Revamps Web and Mobile Apps Pearltrees, the service that allows you to arrange Web content, photos and more (‘pearls’) into mindmap-style ‘trees’, has updated its Web and mobile apps today in order to bring a more seamless user experience and new features to the platform. The company said the Web platform has been fully redesigned and rebuilt in HTML5, making it more easily accessible on a range of different devices, as well as introducing new features also now found in its iOS and Android apps. It seems it’s becoming a bit of a habit for Pearltrees to significantly revamp its website at about this time each year, and this time around it’s gone all-out to make collections, and collecting, “simpler, more accessible and more shareable,” CEO and co-founder Patrice Lamothe said. As well as rebuilding it using HTML 5, there are now new features like ‘extended drag-and-drop’ which allow you to quickly add ‘pearls’ from your hard drive, the Web or a document. ➤ Pearltrees | Google Play | App Store