During the previous weeks several bloggers had the kindness to dedicate one of their posts to pearltrees. It has often been done in a praising way, studying carefully the pros and the cons, analysing the stakes and describing the uses and the benefits. As pearltrees gathers a small and young community it needed good teaching skills, examples and visibility. You provided that! Our community could not have increased and flourished so much without your efficient help. We deeply thank you for following pearltrees, explaining it, showing it and building it. We hope that we could soon grow enough to give you back the favour.

Here are the blogs we want to thank (hopefully we forgot no one):

French:

Partageons le reste, Morning Meeting, Aaaliens, Crise dans les médias, Choses vues, Geek up, Esprit Troglodyte, Toreador, Le Boulet, De tout de rien, Microsteo, Jean Michel Billaut, BiblioFusion, Partageons mon avis, Dubuc’s blog, Abadinte, Barberousse, Criticus, Read Write Web, Israel Valley, Chiner sur le Web, Pleebi.

International:

Conexion Moda, What’s new?, Cooler, Ubergizmo.

If you want to find more about pearltrees on the web you should throw a glance at Patrice’s map:

Filed under: Blogger by Pierre Gancel on April 14th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Web 2.0 wave has brought a lot of fresh air on the web. Suddenly everybody was able, without being an engineer, to create or to bring something of his own on the web. Blogs, youtube, flick’r, myspace… Creativity blossomed out everywhere and still does. A lot of talents have been discovered thanks to these revolution.

While the development of content creation, sharing and discussion sites has radically transformed the practice of Web users, it has not led to the democratization of access to this content.

Search engines and major portals still guide and direct users – rather than Web users themselves. Social bookmarking sites and other voting systems do not resolve this issue. By aggregating individual views rather than extracting specificities, they produce the same kind of results as the search engines.

This imbalance between democratic content creation and centralized access to content poses one of the main barriers to the development of the Web. It has two parallel effects:

–        As spectators, Web users cannot find their way through the mass of content that is of interest to them

–        As creators, Web users are obliged to engage in disseminating and referencing activities, far removed from their real interests, if they want to attract the audience their content deserves.

In practice, therefore, the Web’s democratization potential remains unfulfilled.

There is one missing link to a fully participative Web: user’s ability to guide and direct other users through their own Web.

Will the web stay strangled?

Thanks to: Cratyle and Stetoscope

Filed under: Vision by Pierre Gancel on April 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

Un cercle bleu est toujours le signe d’une connexion. Quand une perle est entourée de bleu, cela implique qu’au moins un autre utilisateur a pearlé le même contenu. Pour l’identifier, rien de plus simple: cliquez sur la perle puis sur “Connexions” dans la fenêtre détails. Vous pouvez ainsi naviguer de pearltree en pearltree pour découvrir les perles des autres utilisateurs partageant les mêmes intérêts que vous.

Lorsqu’un pearltree est entourée de bleu, cela veut dire qu’il est suivi par un autre utilisateur

Dans tous les cas, les utilisateurs appartiennent au même groupe de discussion. Quand une perle ou un pearltree est entouré d’orange, cela veut dire qu’un autre utilisateur y a laissé une note. Vous serez ainsi notifiés si un utilisateur laisse une note sur une perle ou un pearltree que vous suivez afin de vous permettre de discuter avec les gens qui partagent vos intérêts !

En général, les deux couleurs vont de pair. Et plus les cercles de couleurs sont larges, plus le pearltree est suivi ou commenté.

Filed under: aide by Pierre Gancel on April 10th, 2009 | No Comments »