Pearltrees

Card's author : Frédéric Renier, Supagro florac
Card's type of licence : Creative Commons BY-SA
To begin with : Pearltrees allows organizing bookmarks in a tree-like form. It allows sharing favourites from the internet on a website. It allows benefiting from others' searches but also to organise collaborative searches.
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Official website : http://www.pearltrees.com
Keywords :
Tool's boxes : Web Watch tools
Introduction :
Requirements : Skills
  • knowing how to browse the net
  • knowing how to install an extension on your browser
Technique
  • flash reader on your computer
Some practical uses :
  • Sharing bookmarks
  • Collaborative searches
  • Social bookmarking
  • Organising bookmarks
Using the tools :
Advantages :
  • original presentation
  • linked to Twitter and Facebook
  • Widgets generation
Drawbacks :
  • data cannot be imported or exported
  • No RSS feed
Licence : Proprietary software, Freemium
Using : Easy
Setting up : No setting up