Library clips

There are lots of sites that allow you to re-syndicate feed content in a box on your blog sidebar.

So far I’ve only found two that do it as a ticker (scrolling headlines), they are Feedzilla, and Feedo Style (this even has a version where the post disappears and a new post appears…vanish/appear rather than scrolling).

Problem is that these two services are not free, not to worry as I was browsing the Widgetbox collection and found two brand newies.

Check out RSS Scroll Box, (add up to three RSS feeds) and Scrolling RSS News Ticker…plus another.

Trailfire allows you to create a list of links, and also annotate the actual webpages in the list, similar to diigo, and also ButterFly, perhaps even clipmarks.
Not only that, from the annotation on the actual webpage you can also actually link to another webpage that is on the same list…this adds more the “web” element to the term “social web”.

But it’s more than just a gate way to links, each link (mark) in the list (trail) is viewed within Trailfire…since you view the actual webpages within Trailfire it makes it more of a portal.

Here is a random example of a user space, here is a trailview, (this link starts of the trail).

Here are some use cases for trails.

NOTE: del.icio.us can only create a list if you consider a tag as a list heading, whereas most list services allow you to create a title for a list of links, and also to describe it with tags.

In saying this Trailfire doesn’t allow you to tag your Trails or marks, but there is a keyword search cloud, the results display the marks containing this keyword, and each “mark” displays a link to the trail it belongs to, see a search for the term “Google“.

Read about it here.

[via TechCrunch]