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Frederic Lardinois

05 Jul 2011 — 2 min read

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Pearltrees: We use Pearltrees as our bookmarking solution for the daily “Best Tech Stories of Today” series we’ve been running here for the last few weeks. Pearltrees allows you to curate web content in a highly visual interface that makes organizing your stories a snap. Thanks to its recently updated embed and Firefox extension, we are able to easily gather all the interesting stories we come across over the course of the day and display them here.

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