Before Le Web: Conference, Curation and Creation Traditionally, I've come to Le Web at the last minute - the night before the conference kicks off - and stayed a day afterwards. This time I did it the other way around, and I'm glad I did. I'd missed the degree to which a culture of peripheral events has grown up around the main conference. For example, I had lunch with the good people of Pearltrees, discussing curation of content over a spectacularly good meal at Alcazar. I had a long conversation with Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher, a former FT journalist, about the shift from the only publishing cost bases and revenue models to the emergent ones in the new information ecosystem that was quite fascinating, especially Tom's perspective as someone who has made the jump from the old model to the new... The Blogger Party on a boat in the Seine was one of those events where you saw a camera, video or still, in action wherever you looked.
Mashable 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.
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
From Webslides to Pearltrees Each week in class I pick a few of my students’ blog posts for discussion and string the links together in a list like a slide show of web pages. As discovered by a colleague I have been using Webslides from Diigo for this task over the last 12 weeks. Using the Diigo bookmarklet I can quickly capture the current page link into a Diigo group. Each Diigo group has a link to the start of the webslides presentation – example here. The links are quick to gather but there are few niggles: by default the web pages change every 10 seconds during presentation – not ideal for use in classwebslides caches the pages leading to a slow start-up, and an annoying overlay at the top of each page reminds the viewer that the page is cached and not live; an extra click is needed to remove the message The first niggle is fixed by changing the settings for each webslides group, which naturally I don’t always remember to do before use. Like this: Like Loading...
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world. So, over the past few months I’ve been talking to tons of entrepreneurs about the tools that curators actually need and I’ve identified seven things. First, who does curation? Bloggers, of course, but blogging is curation for Web 1.0. Look at this post here, I can link to Tweets, and point out good ones, right? But NONE of the real time tools/systems like Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, give curators the tools that they need to do their work efficiently. As you read these things they were ordered (curated) in this order for a reason. This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. A curator is an information chemist. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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 .»
mellowtigger: pearltrees I was trying to organize my many website bookmarks into a comprehensible structure. Then my motherboard died, I reinstalled the operating system, and I lost my many unsaved bookmarks. *sigh* I was looking into free products to help me backup my bookmarks and access them even from other pcs. During my search, I stumbled upon a strange little Firefox browser add-on called "pearltrees". Pearltrees allows me to store my bookmarks on their server but also to organize the bookmarks into visual 2D structures with nodes branching out from other nodes. Sadly, the add-on leaves the browser in a totally un-browser-like state. (for the Firefox add-on) (for my core node) Hint: "new pearltree" will add an empty placeholder node for your tree, while "new pearl" will connect a website address to the node. Does anyone know a product that works similarly (organize, backup, and share websites)?
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
Pearltrees Launches New TEAM Feature at LeWeb10 « Humanity+ on the Radical Technological Changes That Will Redefine Humanity | Main | Google Chrome Cupcakes » December 08, 2010 Pearltrees Launches New TEAM Feature at LeWeb10 Pearltrees, a leading curation tool, launched a new team feature at LeWeb10 in Paris this week. More than a new feature, the "team" functionality makes Pearltrees the world's first real-time collaborative curation community. With Pearltrees “Team” release, curating content becomes social and immediate and curation becomes a playful, social activity. Amidst blogger, podcaster, media and entrepreneur activity and panel discussions today in LeWeb's towering halls (3 in total -- separated by a snow and sleet storm) at a place called Les Docks in the northern part of Paris, Pearltrees' CEO Patrice Lamothe and his team demoed Pearltrees Team to attendees, which they also showed on a touch screen. The number of possible uses for Pearltrees Team is virtually infinite: TrackBack Comments Post a comment