Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies.
But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did. Here's a page with text. Some of the words are hyperlinked, so when you click on them, you open another page. If you want to save something, there's a wide variety of tools that help you do so, but most people use the bookmarking feature built into their browsers, or social bookmarking sites.
But now there's a conspicuously innovative new option. A service called Pearltrees from a small company in Paris gives you a new way to organize your stuff online. Instead of bookmarks organized with long lists, Pearltrees puts your links into a dynamic, sharable web of connections. More...
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This seems like an interesting concept, a merging of bookmarking and social networks. My initial question is does it allow you to follow RSS feeds? I organize my website reading through Google Reader and it's desktop software syncing tools released by Newsgator; NetNewsWire for Macs and iPhone and FeedDemon for Windows. I like these tools and I will spend the next couple of days trying out Pearltrees to see if this service provides a better method of organizing the websites I follow.
John H. Armwood
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