(5) If one could scrape millions of public Facebook or Google profiles what are some interesting analyses to run on the data
Pearltrees Brings Your Interest Graph' to the iPad
One of the more buzzword-y buzzwords in Silicon Valley right now is the "interest graph," which is supposed to connect people and the topics that they're interested in. Lots of startups promise to tap into the interest graph, but Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe says a new app from his startup is "maybe the first time you actually see an interest graph." The new feature, which Lamothe variously describes as "visual discovery" (his pitch to the tech press) and "related interests" (what it's actually called in the app), is included in the just-launched iPad application from the previously Web-only company. That kind of self-deprecation from a startup CEO is a little strange, except that the Pearltrees iPad app is pretty impressive. Over time, all of that activity (Pearltrees claims to have 200,000 users who have created more than 10 million bookmarks, called "pearls") has created a vast amount of data on how different topics are related.
Pearltrees – Social Bookmarking und steigender Verwaltungsaufwand
Nachdem ich vor kurzem erst den auf Blog-Empfehlungen spezialisierten Dienst Readport näher betrachtet habe, möchte ich heute einen Blick auf den Empfehlungsdienst Pearltrees werfen. Ich bin eher zufällig über ein Video auf diesen französischen Webservice aufmerksam geworden, der vor allem durch die mindmapartige Visualisierung gespeicherter Bookmarks attraktiv wirkt. Die mit Flash realisierte visuelle Attraktivität dient auch weniger dem einfachen Ablegen als dem Organisieren von Webinhalten. Insofern ist Pearltrees nicht einfach nur ein neuartiger Bookmarkingservice, sondern eher ein Webcontent-Verwaltungssystem mit einer Social Media Komponente. Beides, das individuelle Organisieren und die Möglichkeit, dadurch mit Nutzern in Verbindung gebracht zu werden, die ähnliche Interessen haben, bildet die Grundlage für Neuentdeckungen. Es gibt mehrere Varianten, neu entdeckte Webinhalte zunächst einmal zu speichern. Pearltrees – coole flashbasierte Visualisierung von Favoriten. Gefällt mir:
Pearltrees Raises $6.7M For Its “Collaborative Interest Graph”
Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding. The basic unit of the Pearltrees service is the pearl, which is basically a bookmark. Users can assemble these pearls into trees based around a topic. Following the lead from Google’s PageRank and Facebook’s EdgeRank, Pearltrees has named its technology TreeRank. Pearltrees launched in December 2009, and the company says it has been growing consistently at 15 percent per month, and that users have now created 15 million pearls which were assembled into 2 million trees. Previous investor Groupe Accueil led the new round.
The Future of the Social Web: Social Graphs Vs. Interest Graphs
Social networks seemed poised to take over the Web. This year, Facebook reached 800 million users. LinkedIn went public in a blockbuster stock offering. Twitter produced a billion tweets per week. And Google launched its own social network, Google+, attracting 25 million users in one month. Amid the continued growth of these social networks, there has been much excitement about how the rest of the Web would soon be infused with all things "social": social search, social commerce, social deals and more. How Will Social Networks Evolve? David Rogers is consultant, speaker, and author of "The Network Is Your Customer." Facebook's master plan, articulated by founder Mark Zuckerberg, was that once its site had built a map of everyone you've met or known, you would be able to leverage that information across the Web, to see what your "friends" are searching, buying, watching, liking or saying. Understanding Social Graphs vs. A social graph is a digital map that says, "This is who I know."
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 .»
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With 5 Million More Euros in the Bank, Pearltrees Gets Ready to Scale and Start Monetizing
The Paris-based social curation platform Pearltrees just announced that it has raised a Series B round of 5 million Euros (about $6.62 million USD). The money is coming from Group Accueil, which had also invested in the service’s previous round. In total, Pearltrees has now raised 8.5 million Euros. The company did not publicly discuss what exactly this freemium model will look like. Pearltrees is probably best known for its highly visual interface to its collaborative curation service. Pearltrees, according to its own data, had about 1 million unique visitors in January, which accounted for about 30 million pageviews.
