Trailfire : hyperlinked lists with annotation
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]
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Thanks for the comments. We are building a way for anyone to say anything anywhere on the web. The web shouldn’t be under the control of the media. With Trailfire every user can say what they want about a page right there on the page for others to see. Anyone can link together these annotated pages to form ideas that are greater than the sum of the parts. These “trails” will overlap and then things get really interesting because this Social Web becomes a place for ideas and people to meet. And the great thing about the Social Web is that it is right in front of you now. It is the same web you know and sometimes love.
To see what I mean go here but please return; I have a point to make. Now try going here. I think you will agree, no matter what your politics are, that the nature of that page has changed with the addition of my mark.
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Comment by chelle — September 22, 2006 @ 11:45 am
Now with public/private groups, wiki feature, contacts
http://mashable.com/2007/04/11/trailfire-social-tools/
Comment by Johnt — April 24, 2007 @ 7:18 am