fêté... Pearltrees: A Design Interface for Remapping the Web - ReadWrite 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. In an interview with Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe, ReadWriteWeb found that company already has a loyal user base including our friends at ReadWriteFrance. 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. At this point, I almost fell out of my chair thinking about the possibilities.
Brocéliande Brocéliande is the name of a legendary forest in France that first appears in literature in 1160, in the Roman de Rou, a verse chronicle written by Wace.[1] Brocéliande is a notable place of legend because of its uncertain location, unusual weather, and its ties with Arthurian Romance, most notably a magical fountain and the tomb of the legendary figure Merlin.[2] Location[edit] Early source works provide unclear or conflicting information on the exact location of Brocéliande; different hypotheses exist to locate Brocéliande on the map. According to Wace, Brocéliande is in Brittany. Medieval historical accounts[edit] First mention: Brocéliande is a land of peoples with many legends according to the Roman de Rou, which covers the history of the Dukes of Normandy from the time of Rollo of Normandy to the battle of Tinchebray. Brocéliande is briefly mentioned in one historical text: in Bertran de Born's 1183 poem dedicated to Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany – the duke to whom Brocéliande belonged.
PearlTrees: Social Bookmarking in Tree Form Pearltrees is a web-based social bookmarking application with a unique visual approach. Compared to other sites in the same vein (Delicious, Xmarks), Pearltrees offers a unique visual approach. Bookmarked sites are represented by circular thumbnails called “pearls.” Things get interesting as my pearls begin to co-inside with others’ pearls. As well, users can rearrange bookmarks at the directory level, copying branches wholesale from each other. Twitter integration is also available. Tags: Consumption, Social Bookmarking
Pearltrees Visualizes How You Organize the Web 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.
Foresight Publishing» Blog Archive » Why Pearltrees glistens lik Early last year I was chatting to Le Laissez Faire, my go-to-guy for all things networked, about his vision for the web. He painted an alluring mental picture of a way to better track and store my web browsing, using network theory. A more visually appealing version of del.ici.ous is the simplest way to describe it. I think my response at the time was something along the lines of “Can I haz it now please”. Sadly his entrepreneurial vision was held back by an energy sapping corporate restructure, and a heavy load of volunteer work already taking up his night hours. But as with all ideas, there are no monopolies, and late last year along came Pearltrees, turning LeLaissezFaire’s vision into reality. Pearltrees is a new way to organise and store the content you consume online. But Pearltrees goes beyond bookmarking to incorporate some interesting social elements and integration with other social media sites, including Twitter. Store and link out or embed stories on one hot topic
Rejoignez-nous :: Créa-france :: Association française pour le d Content Curation: Pearltrees, SmallRivers — Climb to the Stars [fr] Tentative d'utilisation de Pearltrees et SmallRivers. Ça semble intéressant mais pour le moment j'ai l'impression que soit quelque chose m'échappe, soit qu'ils sont en train de réinventer la roue. If you’re at LeWeb’09, you’ve heard of Pearltrees. I’m trying both, unfortunately with not exactly enough energy and time to do it properly. In a way, this kind of content curation is already possible. The question I always want to ask is the following: what exactly does this new shiny service do that I cannot already do (or almost do) with my existing tools, and which will justify the overhead of investing in a new space or service? For the moment, I am “not getting” either Pearltrees or SmallRivers, but as I said, I have just given them an initial “does it click?” I’ve been thinking a lot about content curation during this conference — it’s a topic that the “real-time web” really brings to the forefront. Similar Posts: Like this: Like Loading...
Livre : Mainstream de Frédéric Martel Mainstream de Frédéric Martel Comment fabrique-t-on un best-seller, un hit ou un blockbuster ? Pourquoi le pop-corn et le Coca-Cola jouent-ils un rôle majeur dans l’industrie du cinéma ? Après avoir échoué en Chine, Disney et Murdoch réussiront-ils à exporter leur production en Inde ? Comment Bollywood séduit-il les Africains et les telenovelas brésiliennes, les Russes ? Pour répondre à ces questions, le journaliste et chercheur Frédéric Martel a mené une longue enquête de Hollywood à Bollywood, du Japon à l’Afrique subsaharienne, du quartier général d’Al Jazeera au Qatar jusqu’au siège du géant Televisa au Mexique. Frédéric Martel est chercheur et journaliste. Broché : 464 pages Editeur : FLAMMARION LETTRES Langue : Français Pour commander l’ouvrage, cliquez ici
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.
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Pearltrees Offers A Different View On Bookmarking. | Small Busin A few weeks ago, I met Patrice Lamothe who showed me his newest product, called Pearltrees which I found had a pretty interesting and different interface. Just what is Pearltrees? According to the company’s website, it lets you organize the web in a way that you want. To accomplish this, Pearltrees allows you to first have Pearls and Pearltrees. As you can see in this image, the interface of Pearltrees is somewhat unique. What makes Pearltrees even more remarkable, beyond its non-conforming design, is that it focuses on the content, NOT the people you know. One thing that I took away from my visit with Patrice Lamothe is that he mentioned that Pearltrees was something where you could discover new stuff easily rather than finding your friends. Pearltrees is currently free to use and open to anyone who wants to set up their own account. It’s definitely not a RSS reader like Google Reader or even a URL shortener. Here’s a demo video from Pearltrees explaining how it works: Google+
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