Pearltrees: A Design Interface for Remapping the Web It's rare to look at a bookmarking tool and feel convinced that it's going to win a design award. Pearltrees is such a product. The French site offers us a new way to explore and contextualize the web. In what looks like a mind map structure, users collect "pearls" (links to articles, videos and web pages) and drag and drop them to form a body of knowledge that folds and expands upon itself. Said Lamothe, "We wanted a type of game play that was playful to use and map the web...and the fact that you can group and ungroup content easily means that you can re-catalogue it and keep it current." Rather than looking at the web as a series of linear pages, this service lets us build tree graphs of connecting arguments, share them and then break them at any time. Naturally, as a newly anointed God of information, other great thinkers will gravitate towards you. The Future of Touch Interfaces At this point, I almost fell out of my chair thinking about the possibilities.
The future of bookmarking - (Build 20100625223402) Internet users are familiar with bookmarks. These internet shortcuts are called, Favorites in Internet Explorer. In addition to the built in bookmark management capabilities of browsers, third party external applications provide additional capabilities for bookmark management. If you’re using multiple PCs accessing bookmarks is a bit of a hassle, as you have to save the bookmarks in each PC, individually. But Google Chrome browser changed this with bookmark syncing. And there are social bookmarking sites, which needs no introduction at all. However, it is very frustrating to have more than 300 bookmarks in a typical bookmarking service. For example let’s assume you’re an ardent fan of the latest tech news. Let’s say you’re in need of organizing the ‘Tech news’ Pearltree in a better way, since you’re following news related to IT, new gadgets, do-it-yourself projects, wood working, etc. This structure is a lot like nested folders -- the kind you might have on your PC.
Pearltrees Beta Launches on Wednesday: Will Let You Archive the Links You Share on Twitter At this year's LeWeb conference, Pearltrees will launch the beta version of its bookmarking and curation service. In this beta, Pearltrees will introduce some interesting features for Twitter users. Starting Wednesday, Pearltrees users will be able to connect their Twitter accounts to the service. Pearltrees will continuously scan your Twitter account and index every link you share on Twitter. We got a chance to discuss Pearltrees and its upcoming launch with the company's CEO Patrice Lamothe in the startup's Paris offices today. Thanks to the new Twitter feature, which will put all of the links you share on Twitter into a drop box on Pearltrees, you can now easily create a complete archive of all the content you share. Also Coming This Week: Real-Time Updates Starting on Wednesday, Pearltrees will not just allow you to import links from Twitter, but the service will also be able to send out alerts to your Twitter friends when you update your own pearls. API Coming Soon
2010 Singularity Summit - A Meeting of the Minds « Radio Silence: To 'Err' or Not to 'Err'... | Main | Room for Foursquares? » August 22, 2010 2010 Singularity Summit - A Meeting of the Minds The 2010 Singularity Summit, held this past weekend in San Francisco, was, quite literally a meeting of the minds. Not just because the assembled group consisted of a fair number of the brainiest people on the planet, and not just because the general consensus was that a meshing of silicon hardware with our carbon wetware appears to be a future inevitability, but also because of the discussion about animal intelligence and how it is similar to yet different from our own. Now that the event is a week in the past there have been a number of very interesting posts written on what happened there and what people think of it. Some of the interesting content you'll find in the links below include: August 22, 2010 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, On Robotics, On Science, On Technology, On the Future | Permalink TrackBack Comments
Pearltrees Launches Embeds - Makes Bookmarks More Useful Online bookmarking tools haven't really changed much over the last few years. Most services still present you with a basic list of tagged links. Pearltrees, however, is taking a radically different approach. Pearltrees Embeds The company, which launched a new beta version of its service last month, notes that these new embeds will give bloggers and journalists the ability to present their readers with a new way to explore a topic in depth. A tool like this can come in handy when you want to show the research that went into a longer article, for example, or whenever you want to give your readers more background and context than you could pack into a simple list of links in a blog post. Pearltrees also gives you the ability to share links with other users in real time and to subscribe to other users' collections. To get started, simply sign up for an account here. For more details about Pearltrees, also have a look at our in-depth review of the service's features.
DEMO Curation At Its Best Thanks To Pearltrees « Engaging In The Digital Wilderness | Main | DEMO Late Night » September 17, 2010 DEMO Curation At Its Best Thanks To Pearltrees Pearltrees was THE curation tool at DEMOfall this year. When people think of curation, they often think of museum curators, authors who curate content for a book or educators who curate material for courses. However, if you search, save and later access content on the web, you ARE a curator every day. Pearltrees not only bookmarks all the weblinks that you visit on a regular basis, but it organizes them into nice, neat and well designed pearls that you can easily access anytime. Pearltrees does the work so frankly you don't have to. Go ahead, try it out. September 17, 2010 in Client Announcements, Conference Highlights, On Innovation, On Search, On Technology, Web 2.0 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments Post a comment
Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews With its slick visual interface for bookmarking content, Pearltrees is unique enough that I’ve been both impressed and slightly skeptical that a mass audience will actually use it. But it looks like the site has found plenty of users. The French startup just announced that it crossed two big milestones in March: It has more than 100,000 users curating links, and it received more than 10 million pageviews. Not only does that show the concept is resonating, but it also suggests Pearltrees could reach the scale where it can build a real business around advertising or by offering premium accounts for publishers. When you share links on Pearltrees, they show up as little circles called Pearls. Pearltrees launched in December 2009, and it recently enhanced the social aspect with a new teams feature that lets groups of people create Pearltrees collaboratively. Pearltrees has raised 3.8 million euros in funding.
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pearltrees - Techmeme Search Techmeme Search finds "items", i.e. blog posts, news stories and tweets, that have appeared as headlines on Techmeme. Items listed only in the "More" areas are excluded from results. By default, only the title and first few sentences are searched. Quoted phrases, wildcards, and standard search operators like + (plus), - (minus), AND, OR, NOT, and parenthesis are all supported. Narrowing searches based on url, author, date, and other attributes is also possible. Note: all operators that take urls will accept simple domain names, which match any item at that domain, or complete item urls.
Pearltrees Visualizes TechCrunch Disrupt Did TechCrunch Disrupt blow right past you? I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to watch that video of Eric Schmidt’s keynote about five times before I actually understand what was going on, and don’t even get me started on “Dancing Erick.” For those that are likewise, um disrupted, data curation tool Pearltrees has created the above tree visualization, which allows you to relive the three day info hurricane on your own terms by clicking through any of the available “pearls” or data nodes. For the uninitiated, Pearltrees is a free visual curation tool that allows you to organize the web into subscribable clusters, either by pulling in data from your browser or by crawling what you follow on Twitter.
Hottest Stealth Startups [Graphic] Rumors of “the death of stealth mode” have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since angel investor Chris Dixon tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors” back in March you can’t grab a coffee at The Creamery without hearing a “We’re in stealth mode” come out some neophyte founder’s mouth. Multiple startups I have contacted for coverage have uttered the dreaded epithet and declined press despite a growing userbase. Perhaps the most absurd thing about the state of stealth mode is that many of these under-the-radar companies still manage to be over-hyped (!).