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I am interested in freemium business models, but that Pearltrees gadget was the most frustrating web experience I have had this year, once I got it to work. It

by Luc 18y ago

I am interested in freemium business models, but that Pearltrees gadget was the most frustrating web experience I have had this year, once I got it to work. It really made me long for a nice synopsis of a few paragraphs, with neat hyperlinks to the relevant articles. It would have been very short, too, considering how few nodes there are in the map. In fact, in all the text it took him to explain how to use this map, he could have provided a better overview, using late-90's tech invented at CERN.

Harkins 18y ago
How did you get it to work? I got a screen that said "Loading" with animated dots. Left it 20m while reading other tabs and came back to the same thing.
- Luc 18y ago
  Got that in FF too. I ran it in IE, clicked through the error message (which I probably get because I have a debugger installed) and off you go.
potatolicious 18y ago
I was about to post the same thing - what is this PearlTree crap and why is it getting in the way of me and my information? I know Scribd is a YC company and all, but this is just like it - reinventing the wheel and adding a thick layer on top of our interactions that nobody ever asked for. How hard is it to write a few blog posts and place hyperlinks in them?
jessep 18y ago
I actually quite liked the Pearltree gadget, though I don't think it's elegant. It provides a linear guide through the set of content, whereas links and a summary don't provide such structure. That said, as I think about it, I think a "Top 10 Articles on the Freemium Business Model" may have been better. Still thought the gadget was kind of nifty.
- wensing 18y ago
  If you want structure, you can use a list of lists. Nothing wrong with repeating elements if you must. As it is (with a total lack of explanation), I have to guess why the articles are even chained together the way they are. This is particularly annoying because what I really want to do is just read them all. Oh wait. Sorry. I see I'm supposed to hit 'Play' if I want an explanation. But why would I want to have to do that?!

by Luc 18y ago

Harkins 18y ago

How did you get it to work? I got a screen that said "Loading" with animated dots. Left it 20m while reading other tabs and came back to the same thing.

Luc 18y ago
Got that in FF too. I ran it in IE, clicked through the error message (which I probably get because I have a debugger installed) and off you go.

potatolicious 18y ago

I was about to post the same thing - what is this PearlTree crap and why is it getting in the way of me and my information? I know Scribd is a YC company and all, but this is just like it - reinventing the wheel and adding a thick layer on top of our interactions that nobody ever asked for. How hard is it to write a few blog posts and place hyperlinks in them?

jessep 18y ago

I actually quite liked the Pearltree gadget, though I don't think it's elegant. It provides a linear guide through the set of content, whereas links and a summary don't provide such structure. That said, as I think about it, I think a "Top 10 Articles on the Freemium Business Model" may have been better. Still thought the gadget was kind of nifty.

wensing 18y ago
If you want structure, you can use a list of lists. Nothing wrong with repeating elements if you must. As it is (with a total lack of explanation), I have to guess why the articles are even chained together the way they are. This is particularly annoying because what I really want to do is just read them all. Oh wait. Sorry. I see I'm supposed to hit 'Play' if I want an explanation. But why would I want to have to do that?!