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Papyrus → Parchment → Paper → Padlet
We are easily bored. It's the one thing that unites humanity in 2020. No one wants to read twenty paragraphs of text, or sit through forty verbose slides. Yet, we keep making them, boring everyone out of their minds. We are building more beautiful and fun alternatives to traditional documents. They're less of a pain-in-the-ass to create, and a lot less waterboard-y to view. Checkout a Padlet timeline (https://padl.et/timeline), or a Padlet map (https://padl.et/map) to see what we're talking about. Over ten million people all over the world use Padlet. Most satisfyingly, for millions of kids, Padlet is their first experience of creating things on the Internet. People say we are improving education. People say we are making them more creative. People say a lot of things.
Padlet is a visual collaboration platform marketed for creative work and education, offering boards and canvases for visual thinking used by millions worldwide. It positions itself as a free-to-start tool for collaborative content creation and learning experiences.
Padlet provides visual boards and canvases that enable users to create, organize, and collaborate on content in a visual format. Users can start for free, presumably adding boards, walls, or canvases to collect and share ideas, with collaborative capabilities implied by its education and creative focus.
Who it’s for: educators, students, and creative teams seeking visual collaboration and brainstorming tools
mentions of pricing page and global usage (40 million users) implying traction; no explicit funding or hiring signals provided
Create, Share, Play Mobile Games on the iPad.
A realtime wiki for getting things done.
