Pearltrees Reaches Key Milestones: Largest Curation Community. Posted by Tom Foremski - April 7, 2011 (Patrice Lamothe, CEO of Pearltrees.)
I'm proud to bring you news about Pearltrees, the company I've been working with the past year: this morning it announced it has reached 100,000 members and monthly traffic of 10 million pageviews -- that's about 100 page views per month per member. This makes Pearltrees the largest curation community on the web. That's a great achievement and it comes at a great time because curation has become a hot topic as Internet users struggle to find spam-free content. Patrice Lamothe, CEO of Pearltrees, said: "Passionate people need a place to organize and share the digital items they like. Oliver Starr, chief US evangelist for Pearltrees (and former Techcrunch employee #1) said: "The strong, consistent growth of Pearltrees' community shows that people enjoy playful ways to organize digital items. A key feature of Pearltrees' community growth is that it has been steady and consistent since its launch in December 2009.
Pearltrees, socializing and curating content on the web. 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. Content management systems to varying degrees, do an adequate job of getting some content into a controlled system environment. There are challenges with content management systems on two fronts though, getting content into the system in the first place (getting employees to participate in inputting content in some way) and getting the right content into the hands of the person who actually needs it. Search helps find content and tagging can increase searchability of course, but the whole system is only as good as the ability to input and tag the content, which inherently requires broad participation.
The concept is fairly simple really. Pearltrees launches Twitter sync and reveals its social system. [France] Paris-based Pearltrees has been catching interest around the web the last few days not least because a gaggle influential Silicon Valley bloggers have descended on Paris for Le Web, but mainly because of its interesting model for visually mapping how people collect and share information on the Web.
But today the startup opens the kimono on its full system. They will announce two new things today: Twitter synchronization (enabling a user to create a pearl automatically from Twitter and to tweet automatically from their new Pearltrees), Pearltrees search, Real time discussion and connection. The other new aspect announced today on stage at Le Web is the Pearltrees Social System.
But to explain first, here’s a new video they just released: Pearltrees is effectively visual social bookmarking and therefore has the potential to be more widely used than perhaps the traditional alternatives. You can track what you have looked at and watch what your friends are tracking. PearlTrees: Web 4.0 Social Bookmarking? While we continue to consider the pros and cons of various content delivery sites, and companies like Yahoo, Mashable and Gawker try to come up with personalized delivery systems for their content, there’s a startup out there who has come up with an entirely different way to curate content.
Pearl Trees is completely unique as far as I’ve seen in content curation. It reminds me of a cross between a Prezi, a visual dictionary and social content curation. The best thing about Pearl Trees is unlike other social content curators, this is instantaneous and news oriented. Prezi: Make Dynamic Presentations with Big Pictures The reason Quora and Twitter can coexist is Quora is more permanent and reference oriented, like Wikipedia. Visuwords: A New Dictionary The way Pearl Trees really differentiates is in being a social network. Pearl Trees: Share the Wealth Great idea: I’m not 100% sold though. Like this: Like Loading...