At the Boston Web Innovator's Forum, Margaret from Plum presented Plum. Plum is a virtual team. Half here. Half San Francisco. They have not raised institutional funding. They funded it themselves for awhile and more recently raised some angel funding.

The following are my notes from Margaret's presentation, slightly refined so that it makes sense for someone like you that wasn't there and don't have the visuals to reference. However, since Margaret switched from first person to second person while making her presention and I wrote about what she was doing in third person, it is a bit difficult to follow.

Plum lets users collect, share and connect. Collect anything from anywhere. Most services are media specific. Del.icio.us for bookmarks. Flickr for photos. All of these services are for the web. They don't intergarte with the desktop. Email is the tool that most people use to share stuff. But, email doesn't allow sharing except if someone forwards the email. And its hard to find things from email.

With Plum, you can see colections that I create. Collections have a bloggish format. If i click on one of these, this is a page that i captured by collecting. When i collected it in plum, Plum took a snaphshot of the page.
Plum captures an archive of the page. This works well when there is a user session such as an order confirmation. It's also effectivee for sites that change a lot, like a blog.

Margaret went to my yahoo to grab a page. Plum has a dekstop app that is used to collect pages. Or you can collect through a bookmarklet. It scrapes the page. Picks up all the thumbails of the page. Lets you tag thumbnails or the page. I can then add it and go to Plum or add and go back to my yahoo. Then, user can add it to a collection. If i click the collection, it brings up my yahoo page from when I grabbed it.

Plum integrates with desktop. Plum collects bookmarks to delicious and images to flickr. It works with everything that you are already using.

It lets you collect collections and view in different layouts. Also, you can only let certain groups of people view different collections. Can also let certain groups collaborate on specific collections.

As you collect, we analyze what you are collecting and all of the relationship
between the collections and sub collections that you've created. we use that to show you collections that might be related, including ones that others created.

So, by using the product, it tells me what else is out there that is related. And the people that are also interested in the same stuff.

That's Margaret's presentation. Very interesting stuff.