1. Story vs key words

In Pearltrees it is all about building the world of your interests. A pearltree represents a given interest. A pearltree is made of pearls and each pearls represents a web content. So what is new? In Pearltrees, you use pearls (web content : posts, comments, vids, pics…) to tell a story on your interest in a the way that makes sense for you. I am really interested in the Beatles, but I am interested in this band in a very special way that I could not tell with key words (tags). But I can tell you how I like the Beatles with a pearltree. Why? Because I can chose the order in which I will present the contents I have selected, I can choose the title of my pearls. I am the curator of my web about the Beatles. And interest by interest, pearltree by pearltree, I am building the world of my interests. In a nutshell, Pearltrees is about enabling people to curate their vision of what they are interested in whereas bookmarking activities is all about not loosing some webpages.

2. Alone you can be strong, but you cannot be powerful

It is really hard to bookmark collaboratively. First, a lot of people want to keep their bookmarks private. But even if people would like to share their findings, tags are too ambiguous. They remind me of the Babel tower story. Everybody points out the same thing with a different word. So, in a bookmarking service you can be strong individually but you will never have the power to harness the collective intelligence. In Pearltrees, it’s very different. People meet on common URL. There is no ambiguity. For example, many people love photography! But it could be a job, an art, a way to keep souvenirs and everybody calls it “photography”. The only way to distinguish between these different meanings  is to look at the specific contents there are interested in. You can then gather those who are interested in the same things within “photography”. So each of those group will have a valuable and accurate benefit from others and they will be collectively much more powerful. That is Pearltrees!

3. Organizing is a step, re-organizing is life

Have you ever noticed that you do not see things now as you did six months ago. Bob Dylan sang the times they are changing. Now imagine that every time you are altering your views you would have to re-tag each of your bookmarks. Difficult isn’t it? In Pearltrees, you have all your interests (not a library of bookmarks) and within each of them everything is movable and everyone is moving stuff all the time. You can take a pearl or a pearltree and move it. You can even move a whole branch. You can also delete your pearls. And as your account includes also other users’s pearltrees, you can enjoy how others are moving on their interests. Pearltrees is like life, because it is built to be easily reorganized at anytime.

Filed under: Platform by Frocaboy on February 7th, 2010 | No Comments »

Pearltrees has published its add-on under the General Public License (GPL3 GNU). What the hell is that? It means that Peartlrees’ add-on source code is now public. Anyone can build on it to develop something else. Just one restriction: if you want to publish a project that uses this code, it will have to be published under the same license.  Freedom is contagious!

What does it mean for Pearltrees? It marks our commitment to the open source Web. The web is created and organized by its users and it has to continue this way. Thus with Pearltrees, every user owns its data and can export it freely. The source code of the add-on is under GPL and soon (in several months) an API will be published.

For now, you can join the Mozilla community, here. Then, if you are a developer you can contribute to projects or submit your own. If you are not, you can also contribute by translating some applications. Moreover being a Mozilla community member offers you the possibility to promote your favorite Pearltrees by:

• Rating and posting a positive comment about Pearltrees here
• Recommending Pearltrees to people you work with

Filed under: Community, open source by Frocaboy on January 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Pearltrees invente, développe et se développe tous les jours, très vite.

Son équipe cherche donc un ingénieur-stagiaire R&D d’exception pour permettre à tous les internautes d’organiser le Web à leur manière et ainsi de contribuer à la première organisation humaine du Web.

Vous intégrerez une équipe de 10 professionnels expérimentés (stratégie, finance, marketing, design, R&D) animés par un très fort désir d’innovation, d’excellence et d’intégration des compétences.

Vous concevrez votre programme de travail en partenariat avec le directeur R&D. Vous serez en contact permanent avec les équipes Marketing, Design et R&D, bénéficierez d’une large autonomie et d’une grande capacité d’innovation. Vous travaillerez sur les technologies de pointe telles que Flex ou Java.

Profil :

-      Ingénieur grande école avec une expérience en développement

-      Bonne maîtrise de langages objets

-      Bonne maîtrise et goût pour l’algorithmique

-      Connaissance de Flex ou Java serait un plus

-      Connaissance de Linux considérée comme un plus.

Embauche en fin de stage possible

Lieu : Paris

Indemnité : compétitive

Durée : 4 à 8 mois

Disponibilité : au plus vite

Si vous êtes intéressé, envoyez nous votre CV par email à recrutement at pearltrees dot com

Filed under: Uncategorized by Frocaboy on January 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Have you ever noticed how Pearltrees and Twitter are complementary? One, Twitter, enables you to recommend the web contents you are interested in and to see in “real time” the URLs recommended by the people you are most interested in. Somehow, Twitter is the pulse of your everyday life on the web.

The other, Pearltrees, is the place where you organize your interests where you take the time to analyse. You keep at hand what you like, you organize and reorgnize your interests by moving your pearls and curate them into pearltrees. Somehow pearltrees is the living memory of your everyday life on the web.

Now, imagine the possibilities of synchronizing the pulse and the living memory of your everydaylife on the web. You would never loose a link that you would have twitted and you can recommend to your followers what you have been interested in an organized pearltree form. That is just amazing and it does exist: it is called the “Twitter Sync.”.

It enables you to automatically pearl from Twitter and twitt from Pearltrees.

• pearl the URLs you twitt: use #boat to pearl in your pearltree “boat” with #pt before to create a new pearltree named “boat”.
• twitt the pearltree you make : auto-tweet a new pearltree of more than 5 pearls or a 10 pearls’ update in an existing pearltree. We’ve set a limit to a twitt/hour so that an intense activity on Pearltrees doesn’t excessively affect your followers!

Just synchronize your Pearltrees’ account to your Twitter and experience a new life on the web.

Filed under: Help by pedaviet on December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Last week, Pearltrees was @LeWeb conference, this major web conference was a great opportunity for Pearltrees to launch its beta version and present its new feature “twitter sync.”. Indeed, it happens to be a great success for Pearltrees since a lot of attendees (within the plenary room or on the web) created some pearltrees about how they enjoyed the conference.

For you to enjoy this special moment, here the video of Patrice presenting Pearltrees Beta with Robert Scoble

And a pearltree with all the media coverage of last week :
  

Filed under: Community, Marketing by Frocaboy on December 15th, 2009 | No Comments »

Hey, something is happening there!

As you know we set a special pearltree LeWeb for everyone to keep at hand all the dicussion of the conference : interesting points, sparkling discussions, smarts encounter or good moments.

The good part of the story is that a lot of people are contributing by making their own pearltrees to make this special Pearltrees about what they see, hear, and read about LeWeb. Do not hesitate to do it live, we will gather your pearltrees to the official LeWeb09 pearltree. It will be a real collaborative achievement.

By the way, Patrice will be back on stage with Loic tomorow and will be really happy to show the pearltrees you will have made.

So here is the game :

1. You make your Pearltree about your story about LeWeb
2. You send it (via the share) to “LeWeb09″ account
3. We put it in the LeWeb09 account
4. & Patrice will show it tomorow while his presentation in the plenary room.

Come on let’s pearl your LeWeb09.

Filed under: Community, Marketing by Frocaboy on December 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Nous sommes très heureux et enthousiastes de sortir aujourd’hui la version beta de Pearltrees en direct de Leweb.

Tout d’abord, au nom de l’équipe Pearltrees, je vous remercie de nous avoir aidé depuis le début de l’alpha à construire Pearltrees, avec vos feedbacks, et d’avoir façonné les premiers usages de Pearltrees. Surtout, vous nous avez permis de valider le concept même de Pearltrees en l’intégrant à vos usages quotidiens.

Une nouvelle phase commence. Bien sûr, nous allons continuer à développer de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour améliorer l’expérience de chacun et poursuivre notre intégration au Web. Nous aussi hausser les exigences de qualité de l’interface. Notre défi est de montrer qu’organiser peut être un vrai plaisir…et de construire avec vous la première organisation humaine du web !

En ce qui concerne les nouveautés de la beta…

Synchronisation Twitter

Vous pouvez maintenant synchroniser vos comptes Pearltrees et Twitter pour perler automatiquement depuis Twitter et tweeter depuis Pearltrees

• Perlez les URLs que vous twittez: utilisez #voilier pour perler dans votre pearltree “voilier” et ajoutez #pt pour créer le nouveau pearltree “voilier”
• Twittez les pearltrees que vous construisez: auto-tweet un nouveau pearltree contenant plus de cinq perles ou une mise à jour de plus de dix perles d’un pearltree existant

Vous pouvez ainsi mettre votre communauté au courant de l’évolution de vos intérêts sur le web !

Amélioration de l’expérience utilisateur

- Un sujet précis vous intéresse ? Découvrez les contenus perlés par les autres utilisateurs sur ce sujet en utilisant la fonctionnalité “chercher un pearltree”

- Vous pouvez désormais garder la page de votre compte Pearltrees ouverte, vous serez au courant des notes, connections et perles que vous recevez sans avoir besoin de rafraichir la page.

Je suis sûr que vous apprécierez la beta et que vous continuerez à nous aider à construire Pearltrees.

Filed under: Community, Platform by pedaviet on December 9th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

We’re very happy and excited to launch today the beta version of Pearltrees live here at LeWeb.

First, the entire Pearltrees’ team would like to thank those of you who have helped us since the beginning of our alpha to build Pearltrees with your feedbacks, and to shape the first uses of Pearltrees. Moreover, you’ve enabled us to validate the main concepts of Pearltrees by making Pearltrees your own place.

It’s time to enter a new phase. We will continue to develop new features to make Pearltrees an even greater experience for everyone. We’ll keep iterating on Pearltrees. But we believe you deserve higher quality standards so that you can take pleasure to organize the Web your way…and contribute to the first human-powered organization of the web!

Now, here are the novelties of this version…

Twitter synchronization

You can now synchronize your Pearltrees and Twitter accounts to automatically pearl from Twitter and twitt from Pearltrees :

• pearl the URLs you twitt: use #boat to pearl in your pearltree “boat”and add #pt to #boat to create a new pearltree named “boat”.
• twitt the pearltree you make : auto-tweet a new pearltree of more than 5 pearls or a 10 pearls’ update in an existing pearltree

You can thus keep your community updated on your interests on the Web!

We hope you will enjoy the Beta and continue to help us building Pearltrees.

Improving user experience

- You’re interested in a specific topic? Find out the contents pearled by other users on that topic using the “search a pearltree” feature.

- Now, you can keep your Pearltrees webpage open and be automatically posted when there is a new note or connection.

Filed under: Community, Platform by pedaviet on December 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

Since the beginning of Pearltrees’ adventure, you have contributed tremendously to Pearltrees. We’ve tried to give back to you has much as we could by building a nice product and organizing some great parties (yeah, we know there is still some work ahead…).

Today, you can help us again.

1. If you have 3 minutues: Mozilla Firefox

We’ve released today the Firefox add-on on Mozilla’s add-on platform. Concretely, it means that the source code of the add-on is now in open source. It’s a symbol of our deep commitment to an open web. You are already the owner of your data (data exports in RDF format is available) and now you can use and modify the source code of the add-on as you wish. Other steps will follow soon.

So if you have 3 minutes, let the Mozilla community know what you think about us:

1. Register here (in the upper right corner)
2. Give a top review to Pearltrees
3. Download the add-on (even if you already have it, it’s the number of downloads that counts)

2. If you have another minute: Crunchies

The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood.  Well, that’s the way they present themselves. The awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2009. Some of you have already nominated Pearltrees which made us thought, hey, why not ask others to vote for us.

In just 1 minute you can nominate Pearltrees in the following 3 categories:

• Best design
• Best international start-up
• Best new start-up of 2009

Just click here and scroll down to the categories. If you want to, you can actually vote everyday until December 4^th…

3. If you are a big fan and want to demonstrate your passionate love

- Ask your friends to do the same !

- And ask even your grandma to do the same !!

Thanks a lot for your support!

Cheers

Filed under: Community, Ecosystem, open source by pedaviet on November 25th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Depuis le début de l’aventure Pearltrees, vous avez beaucoup contribué à Pearltrees. Nous avons essayé de vous le rendre autant que possible , en faisant un beau produit et parfois des fêtes (ouais, y a encore du boulot…).

Aujourd’hui encore, vous avez la possibilité de nous aider,

1. Si vous avez 3 minutes : Mozilla Firefox

Nous venons d’enregistrer le module Pearltrees dans la liste des modules Firefox gérée par Mozilla. En clair, on met le code source de notre module en « open source ». Bref tout le monde peut l’utiliser. C’est une marque de notre engagement profond pour la démocratisation du web. Chacun doit pouvoir disposer de ses données (l’export de vos données est possible en format RDF) et maintenant vous pouvez disposez du code de l’add-on. D’autres étapes suivront bientôt.

Donc si vous avez 3 minutes, dites à la communauté Mozilla tout le bien que vous pensez de nous :

1. enregistrez-vous (ça se passe en haut à droite) ici
2. laissez une super critique à propos du chouette add-on de Pearltrees
3. téléchargez le module (même si vous l’avez déjà, c’est le nombre de téléchargement qui compte)

2. Si vous avez encore 1 minute : Crunchies

Les Crunchies sont au Web ce que les Oscars sont à Hollywood. Enfin c’est comme ça qu’ils se présentent. Certains d’entre vous nous ont déjà nominé. Du coup on s’est dit pourquoi pas demander à d’autres de le faire également…

En 1 minute vous pouvez nous nominer dans les 3 catégories suivantes :

• Best design
• Best international start-up
• Best new start-up of 2009

C’est ici, au milieu de la page.

Au fait, vous pouvez aussi voter chaque jour jusqu’au 4 décembre. On dit ça, on dit rien…

3. Pour les fans ou si vous voulez nous prouver votre amour illimité

-Dites à vos amis de faire la même chose !

-Dites même à votre grand-mère de répéter l’opération !!!

Merci beaucoup et à bientôt !

Filed under: Community, Ecosystem, open source by pedaviet on November 25th, 2009 | 4 Comments »