Curation service Pearltrees gets a new look, editing of shared Web pages and new pro account tiers

Pearltrees, the social curation service that helps you organise Web content, photos and notes (‘pearls’) into mindmap-style ‘trees’, is today unveiling a new look, new features for paying users and revised pro account tiers. Pearltrees was launched in December 2010 and now boasts two million monthly active users, collecting over 50,000 links every day. The new UI, codenamed ‘Asimov’ by the French startup, is designed to provide a coherent, simpler experience across the Web, iOS and a forthcoming Android version. There’s nothing enormously different about it, although there’s now an Apple-style ‘dock’ at the bottom of the page for universal options and a subtly more friendly look that uses responsive design to optimize the layout for different screen sizes. The updated iOS version, which will be available as soon as it’s approved by Apple, promises to get rid of one my biggest bugbears when it comes to curation apps – the Safari bookmarklet. Now, there are three paid tiers: ➤ Pearltrees

Show Your Work! a book by Austin Kleon Buy now: Amazon – B&N – IndieBound – Powell’s – BookPeople Download the cover and other images in the blogger kit. About the book ISBN: 9780761178972 | Foreign translations A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion, Show Your Work! In ten tight chapters, I lay out ways to think about your work as a never-ending process, how to build an audience by sharing that process, and how to deal with the ups and downs of putting yourself and your work out in the world: You don’t have to be a genius.Think process, not product.Share something small every day.Open up your cabinet of curiosities.Tell good stories.Teach what you know.Don’t turn into human spam.Learn to take a punch.Sell out.Stick around. This book is not just for “creatives”! Praise for the book: 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Business Book Brain Pickings Best Art, Design, and Photography Book of 2014 New York Times Top 100 Best Selling Education Books of 2014 “Some people are natural self-promoters. Buy it now:

uld Leap Motion put humanity back at the heart of marketing campaigns? | Media Network The Leap Motion Controller's impending launch is causing much excitement in the media and marketing industries. A clever little box that plugs into any computing device, it can transform screens and surfaces into touch-sensitive devices. This has the potential to deliver cost-effective, intuitive, inherently human ways to interact with technology in all areas of our lives. Leap Motion has profound implications and encapsulates the latest step in the inexorable trend towards the "humanisation of technology"; foreshadowing a time when we can interact with a six-sheet by swiping hands, turn window displays into interactive playrooms or finally realise a Minority Report-style dressing room. Alongside innovations like Google Glass and the many wearable tech concepts currently gracing Kickstarter and other funding platforms, ever more technological solutions that change the way we interact are imminent. So what distinguishes the campaigns that promise from those that deliver?