Pearltrees makes Web curation a joy with its 'magical' new iPad app Not many tech CEOs would have the guts to describe their products as “magical” and as delivering “pure happiness”, but that’s exactly how Pearltrees‘ Patrice Lamothe describes the startup’s iPad app released today. You know what? He may just be right. Pearltrees is a service that takes a visual approach to Web curation. Everything’s public on Pearltrees, so searching for ‘iPhone’, for example, will bring up all the iPhone-relates pearltrees created by 200,000 users the service has amassed so far. Now the iPad app brings a whole new dimension to both curation and content discovery. As with the browser-based version, all the pearltrees you create are public, meaning that you’re contributing to a huge ‘interest graph’ that Pearltrees is building up behind the scenes. That’s where the discovery element of the app comes in. Scroll your finger slowly to uncover closely related pearls, or scroll quickly to see a wider variety of related content.
App of the Week: Pearltrees Title: Pearltrees Platform: iPad (iOS 3.2 or later) Cost: Free I’ve known about the Pearltrees website for quite awhile but never found using it that easy or intuitive. Then I read the review of the new Pearltrees iPad app on ReadWriteWeb and thought, “I have to try this out.” The idea of the service is to provide users the ability to create visual mind map curated lists of websites. (The websites are the pearls on the tree in Pearltrees.) Once I started working with the iPad app I realized there is a lot of potential in the idea of a curated list of websites represented in a mind map. To get started you create a Pearltree on a particular topic – say teens and libraries – and then add pearls (websites) to the tree by typing in a URL, or by using the Pearltrees bookmarklet that makes it easy to be at a site in Safari on the iPad and add the URL to one of your trees. What makes the Pearltrees app even more exciting is that you can connect trees together.
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. Related interests have also been added to the Pearltrees website, but Lamothe is clearly more excited by the iPad version—he warned that the Web experience probably isn't quite as good. That kind of self-deprecation from a startup CEO is a little strange, except that the Pearltrees iPad app is pretty impressive.
Pearltrees for iPad is a Must-Have App "Tell me when it's an iPad app," I've told the team behind web curation startup Pearltrees over and over again. That day has finally come and what was a clumsy, Flash-based web experience is now a gorgeous, brilliant iPad app. Happy day, the Pearltrees iPad app is finally here! Pearltrees is a link saving and sharing service that uses a beautiful visual metaphor - links are saved as floating glass orbs just made for touching, swiping and zooming. You might be confused by the iPad app if you haven't used the web interface a little already. You can go be my buddy here. Above, my collection of links related to Pearltrees. What do you get out of it? I am really having a good time using Pearltrees but there are a few things that could make it much better. Another feature that would make this all the more compelling would be offline caching of content.
Google + devrait s’enamourer des Pearltrees-like ou l’avenir du shopping drag and drop Citoyens ! Les commentaires vont bon train concernant Google + . Pour ma part, pas d’énormes révolutions de mes propres usages, pour la simple et bonne raison que l’étape 1 de la propagation de Google + repose sur une notion désormais hyperstatique : le carnets d’adresse. A la différence près que si les MySpace ou autres Facebook ont pu recruter sans avoir à justifier de services additionnels révolutionnaires (“log and see”), Google + arrive après une phase de maturation des réseaux sociaux vers le grand public, et de façon internationale. Il manque cette dimension dynamique dans l’acquisition des publics ; on pourrait presque parier que les prochains grands succès des médias sociaux n’auront pas lieu seulement via une contamination d’adresses emails mais par de véritables “missions” ou “call to actions” demandés aux utilisateurs prospects. La seule vraie révolution “utilisateur” qu’on peut voir poindre est probablement la dimension “drag and drop”.
Pearltrees for iPad Pearltrees is a free, visual and collaborative library that lets you organize web pages, files, photos and notes to retrieve and share them anywhere easily. Leverage Pearltrees’ community to discover amazing stuff related to your interests and enrich your account. Retrieve anything you keep in Pearltrees from your computer, mobile and tablet. What people are saying about Pearltrees: "The most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content" The Next Web"Pearltrees puts a library in your pocket" Digital Trends"This app makes a wonderful experience navigating the pearls" Forbes Features: • Have everything you like at your fingertips all the time• Access your pearltrees from anywhere: computers, iPads and iPhones• Keep everything you like: web pages, files, photos and notes• Browse your favorite things blazingly fast• Discover interesting stuff in your area of interests• Collaborate on your favorite topics• Share all of this Pearltrees is free to download and use. What's new
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.
Pearltrees Launches iPad App That Lets Users Connect Through Their Curated Interests Posted by Tom Foremski - October 11, 2011 (Pearltrees is a consulting client.) Pearltrees, a French-based curation platform, today released an iPad app that lets users easily explore the curated collections of websites created by more than 200,000 people, via a unique visual and touch interface that serves a discovery engine based on interests. The company has the world's largest community of online curators on its platform. The free application takes full advantage of the iPad's touch interface to enable users to quickly discover collections of websites with simple swipes of their finger. "This is the first time that you can see an interest graph in action," said Patrice Lamothe, CEO and co-founder of Pearltrees. Pearltrees is betting that many people are suffering from social network fatigue and the many chores of online relationship management. The iPad app can be downloaded here. And here is a screen cast, you really have to see it because it's a very visual app. About Pearltrees:
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. Meanwhile, Pearltrees is using that data to determine how different topics and bookmarks are related, and allows users to find new pearls (related to whatever topic they’re exploring) through its “related interests” button. 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.
Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services. Technical explanations argue that the interconnectivity of data is the most significant current development. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose. How can the web’s development be understood? The web represents a compendium of technical resources, functionalities and usage practices, and it cannot be reduced to just one of these dimensions. The development of the web thus does not arise from technologies, products or usage patterns alone. The founding principles 1- Allow anyone to access any type of document