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A map on advertising business model

11 points by STW 17y ago

teej 17y ago
I can't be the only person who hates those PearlTree "maps". When people gripe about stupid uses of flash, this is exactly what they're talking about.
- STW 17y ago
  teej, I understand that some people don't like flash. It was actually a key decision that we had discussed a lot internally, notably given that flash is not open source. But we came to the conclusion that to build what we wanted to, we needed flash. What is Pearltrees about ? First, Pearltrees enables to map and organize your web. It is an easy and powerful way to store and retrieve the valuable contents you find in your every day navigations. While browsing, you record contents whenever you want and at the end Pearltrees shows you the map of your surf. By simple drag & drop, you can easily re-organize/re-order this map, make intersections, delete useless items, etc. to build the story you want to on the topic. You can also enrich your map with those of other users by simply including them in your own map. A map organization gives a structure and a meaning to these contents. A bit like the curator of a museum puts arts pieces in a certain order on a given path to tell a story to the visitors. Basically you have crystallized your thinking on this topic. Second, you can guide your friends on the web. By building your map, you have cut through the "noise" of all contents on the topic to build a story with what you think are the most relevant contents. This has value to other people that you know. With those maps, you can make a point, have people laugh, prepare a trip, etc. (we even had a wedding invitation sent via Pearltrees). You can share maps with other users, via one link by tweet, embed it on your blog, etc. Third, you can discover new contents close to your interests. Your maps will cross other maps, you can then navigate from your map to other users’ maps along the same line of interest. Even if there is no direct crossing, you can also see the closest maps to yours so as to broaden your horizons with maps build by people that have similar interests than yours. Very clearly the platform can be improved, simplified and optimized. It is still a very early alpha. We are working hard on it with the community of users and I'm sure it will get better. It is already a very powerful tool for my everyday web usage (though I’m of course biased as I’m part of this team).
  - nonrecursive 17y ago
    STW, I just tried looking at the pearltree and here's what happened: * It made safari freeze for a minute or two, which really annoyed me * While safari was frozen all I saw was a tiny clock in the upper left corner of the browser, which didn't really give me an idea of what was going on * After the flash loaded I had no idea what I was looking at. I didn't want to waste any more time so I just closed the tab.
    - STW 17y ago
      nonrecursive, thanks for this feedback. It is strange that it took so long to upload because it usually works correctly on Safari. Could you maybe tell me your OS and browser versions so that we look into it? Thanks As to what you ended up on, it was the map on ad revenue model (if you went via the pearl in the post). To read the map's content, you can just click on the play and the arrows buttons in the left bottom corner.

11 points by STW 17y ago

teej 17y ago

I can't be the only person who hates those PearlTree "maps". When people gripe about stupid uses of flash, this is exactly what they're talking about.

STW 17y ago
teej, I understand that some people don't like flash. It was actually a key decision that we had discussed a lot internally, notably given that flash is not open source. But we came to the conclusion that to build what we wanted to, we needed flash. What is Pearltrees about ? First, Pearltrees enables to map and organize your web. It is an easy and powerful way to store and retrieve the valuable contents you find in your every day navigations. While browsing, you record contents whenever you want and at the end Pearltrees shows you the map of your surf. By simple drag & drop, you can easily re-organize/re-order this map, make intersections, delete useless items, etc. to build the story you want to on the topic. You can also enrich your map with those of other users by simply including them in your own map. A map organization gives a structure and a meaning to these contents. A bit like the curator of a museum puts arts pieces in a certain order on a given path to tell a story to the visitors. Basically you have crystallized your thinking on this topic. Second, you can guide your friends on the web. By building your map, you have cut through the "noise" of all contents on the topic to build a story with what you think are the most relevant contents. This has value to other people that you know. With those maps, you can make a point, have people laugh, prepare a trip, etc. (we even had a wedding invitation sent via Pearltrees). You can share maps with other users, via one link by tweet, embed it on your blog, etc. Third, you can discover new contents close to your interests. Your maps will cross other maps, you can then navigate from your map to other users’ maps along the same line of interest. Even if there is no direct crossing, you can also see the closest maps to yours so as to broaden your horizons with maps build by people that have similar interests than yours. Very clearly the platform can be improved, simplified and optimized. It is still a very early alpha. We are working hard on it with the community of users and I'm sure it will get better. It is already a very powerful tool for my everyday web usage (though I’m of course biased as I’m part of this team).
- nonrecursive 17y ago
  STW, I just tried looking at the pearltree and here's what happened: * It made safari freeze for a minute or two, which really annoyed me * While safari was frozen all I saw was a tiny clock in the upper left corner of the browser, which didn't really give me an idea of what was going on * After the flash loaded I had no idea what I was looking at. I didn't want to waste any more time so I just closed the tab.
  - STW 17y ago
    nonrecursive, thanks for this feedback. It is strange that it took so long to upload because it usually works correctly on Safari. Could you maybe tell me your OS and browser versions so that we look into it? Thanks As to what you ended up on, it was the map on ad revenue model (if you went via the pearl in the post). To read the map's content, you can just click on the play and the arrows buttons in the left bottom corner.