Pearltrees Visual Content Curation for iPad

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Pearltrees is a web-based visual content curation service that launched two years ago, and I was one of the first to publish about it before its official launch at LeWeb in December 2009.

At that time, I labeled the web application as a “visual mapping of the web”, now that content curation and the “Interest Graph” are becoming increasingly fashionable, describing it as a “visual content curation service” should be more accurate.

The app allows users to collect web pages and arrange them in pearls and pearl trees (topics), they can also share them and collaborate on others’ pearltrees using the feature “Team” that was released in 2010. According to the company, the service currently has over 200,000 users that collected over 10 million pearls and is growing at a 15% rate.

Pealrtrees seems to have been designed for the iPad before it even existed! I advise users to browse the app on the iPad rather than on the desktop to reach its full potential. The multi touch interface is great, it is a lot faster to manipulate pearls and pearltrees with the fingers than with a mouse, additionally, the tablet screen size is perfect for the visual interface.

Besides the multi touch interface, Pearltrees for iPad offers an impressive new feature called Visual Discovery (check the video, toward the end), it allows to visually explore the interest graph of the Pearltrees’ community by simply moving around the screen, new pearls will appear with content related to the closest pearl that was previously displayed. As we all know, an image worth a million words, so check out the video demo performed by Pearltrees co-founder Patrice Lamothe, to see the feature in action (still image is below).

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Sony Video Unlimited Takes Content Browsing to the Next Level

Sony Video Unlimited window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '139683546053659', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Network:Ubergizmo English, French, SpanishUberphones Subscribe to RSS Ubergizmo ReviewsMobileGamingAndroidAppleComputersGadgetsConceptsPhoto/VideoEvents |  Jobs Home > Breaking > Sony Video Unlimited Takes Content Browsing to the Next Level Sony Video Unlimited Takes Content Browsing to the Next Level Hubert Nguyen 09/27/2011 05:26 PDT

Sony is launching a preview of Video Unlimited, a new user interface that lets PlayStation3 users browse PlayStation Network content in a whole new way. It is fair to say that the PlayStation 3 is extremely more powerful than a set top box or smart TV, yet the user experience of the current PlayStation Network doesn’t really reflect that. Video Unlimited changes the paradigm, forever.When Michael Aragon (Vice President and General Manager, Global Digital Video and Music Services) showed us the live demo, I found the user interface to be impressively fast. I have included a video for you to watch, and I think that you will agree with me (drop a comment). The reason why Video Unlimited is so fast is because it uses the hardware potential of the PS3 by leveraging the superior graphics capabilities and extra memory that the platform has to offer. Video Unlimited does not sit around and wait for your next command, it will actively pre-load data that you are likely to use next, and it will keep previously loaded data in case you retrace your step. The end-result is an amazingly fast content browsing on PlayStation 3.

But there is more than speed: Sony has also improved the whole design and browsing experience in a big way. You can now find related content by tags, actors, directors, channel, studio, etc… at a level that was previously not possible – or practical. If you happen to know exactly what you are looking for, Sony has also updated its search with “Tumbler”, a new search system that is PS-controller friendly (vs. keyboard). Within a few clicks, Michael showed us that he can search for something as complex as “The Shawshank Redemption” – try that with your smart TV…

PlayStation Plus subscribers are the first ones who can download Video Unlimited and this new experience will start as an application, which may (or may not) replace the current PSN UI down the road. What do you think?

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Netflix to add more TV content

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After the splitting up its DVD and streaming business earlier this week, it looks like Netflix is ready to take its streaming service into a different direction. Instead of focusing on offering feature-length films, Netflix is going to bring more TV content to its video on demand service. And seeing how Netflix lost one of its partners, Starz, recently – it needed to bring in more content to make up for the void in its service.

Netflix came to the decision that it should add more TV content to its service due to the fact that 60% of its video streams were coming from subscribers who were streaming TV shows. While that may seem like the right thing to do based on findings, I wonder if it took into account that maybe people were streaming TV content because there were no movies they were interested in watching, or because most users preferred to watch movies on their rented DVDs instead?

Whatever it is, it looks like Netflix users will be able to catch more TV shows on the service instead of movies in the future. I guess subscribers will be able to watch TV shows that they caught on to just before the shows’ cancellations, and to catch up on missing episodes of their favorite series. What do you think of Netflix’s decision? Is adding more TV content the right way to go for the service?

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