Pearltrees

rdf:langString Pearltrees

rdf:langString Pearltrees

rdf:langString Pearltrees

rdf:langString Patrice Lamothe, Francois Rocaboy, Alain Cohen, Samuel Tissier and Nicolas Cynober

rdf:langString English / French

rdf:langString Public Alpha March, 2009 Open Beta, December 2009

rdf:langString Broceliand, S.A.S.

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rdf:langString The company is currently generating revenue via its Freemium/Premium business model

rdf:langString Pearltrees refers to itself as "a place for your interests". Functionally the product is a visual and collaborative curation tool that allows users to organize, explore and share any URL they find online as well as to upload personal photos, files and notes. The product features a unique visual interface that allows users to drag and organize collected URLs, and other digital objects. that themselves can be further organized into collections and sub-collections, (URLs). Users of the product can also engage in social/collaborative curation using a feature called Pearltrees Teams. Pearltrees claims to be among the first companies to provide an exposed interest graph. The company's mission is to help users "Democratize Organization of Knowledge" As part of the product's social features, Pearltrees users can synchronize their accounts with both Twitter and Facebook. This bi-directional functionality supports the collection of new pearls each time a link is shared or tweeted. New links added to user accounts and new collections created by users can also be broadcast via a user's Twitter and Facebook accounts if users have enabled this feature. Users can also embed a collection into most CMS products including WordPress blogs, Drupal websites, Typepad blogs and others. Pearltrees was founded by , CEO, Alain Cohen, CTO, Nicolas Cynober, Technical Director, Samuel Tissier, Ergonomy/UI and Francois Rocaboy, CMO.