Here are this week’s picks:

PearlTrees

PearlTrees’ innovative interface lets you explore and remap the great content you find everyday on the internet. Every saved item is a ‘pearl’, and you can organize your pearls in ‘pearltrees’. The interface might remind you of a mindmapping tool, but the comparison is only visual. PearlTree’s impressive functionality lets you drag and drop pearls - or links to webpages - and connects them to your profile. Shared pearls connect you to others and allow you to view their collections. From there you can pick the bits you like to extend your own. You can email your pearls, embed them in your blog or broadcast them on Twitter or Facebook.

NextStop

Founded by ex-Googlers who helped develop Calendar, Gmail and Picasa, NextStop is a new kind of interactive travel guide where people share what they like to do by creating collections of visual recommendations, or guides, for others to use. NextStop is a community based on user profiles with a reputation system that values sharing, recommending, and the quality of previous guides. Click on a guide image to access ‘place pages’, which gather all the info posted by users on a specific place.

Br.st

Previously a URL shortener, Br.st has launched a slew of new features and is now looking closer to popular social media reader Brizzly. It offers the basic features of Brizzly, including the ability to edit your status, view your Twitter feed, direct message friends, retweet, view trending topics and save searches. But where Brizzly supports Facebook, Br.st concentrates on its URL shortener roots and ensures against malware through inline link, image, and video previews.

Sponty

Sponty takes the hassle out of putting together casual social events. Instead of asking users to give their real-time location in the hope that their friends might join like in Foursquare or Brightkite, Sponty focuses on real-time ‘intentions’ and allows users to to tell people about opportunities to get together. Once you’ve added events to a schedule, your friends are notified via the Sponty community, Twitter, facebok, email or through a blog widget. Friends then click the ‘I’m down’ button their interest in joining you. Sponty currently supports US timezones only.

Outright

Outright.com provides a simple online bookkeeping application. The app is designed for very small businesses - entrepreneurs, or self-employed people. You can track your income and expenses, see how your business is doing and be organized at tax time. The goal is to make getting your taxes done simple. Right now, Outright is designed  for the US tax system. Some basic currency customization have been added for additional countries (Australia, Canada, the UK, and more). Check on the site as more are added all the time.

Also new on the directory today, Mint is a popular finance management tool that mixes easy to use features and solid financial advice. With a different approach, PocketSmith is a financial calendar to schedule salary, bill payments, rents, and more, with a focus on goal tracking.

Slatebox is an entirely customizable platform to vizualise and share your ideas, and work with your collaborators on the same canvas, in real-time. We have also added light text editing app SimpleText.ws and Yast, a clean and simple time-tracker.

Popscreen and VodPod are two media-clipping apps to collect, save and share your favorite videos online. 5ftShelf provides you with a virtual shelf to showcase your favorite books, fims, and music. Compare collections with other member and check the the ‘Ultimate Shelf’ for popular items.

Finally, The Afghan Diaries is a web documentary in 3 parts telling the story of the Danish involvement in Afghanistan, from training to close quarter combat and its aftermaths.

We will be adding more web documentaries so keep checking in if you enjoy the genre.

Happy Joliclouding!