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Trailfire has blazed its path as a social news tool, and now it’s starting to get a lot more social. The company created a way to mark up somebody else’s web page with the equivalent of a sticky note. You insert your own comments on the site and create a way for people who come after to you to grasp your observations about that site.
Trail link: http://www.trailfire.com/chrisOdd/trails/24676
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/chrisOdd/trailview/24676
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/chrisOdd/trailview/24676
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Trailfire has blazed its path as a social networking tool, and now it’s starting to get a lot more social. The company created a way to mark up somebody else’s web page with the equivalent of a sticky note. You insert your own comments on the site and create a way for people who come after to you to grasp your observations about that site.
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By Marrying Four Technologies - Web Annotation, User Created Navigation,
Commentary and Social Discovery - Trailfire Delivers its Expanded Social
Discovery Engine
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Seattle-based Trailfire is showing the firm's social discovery and web sharing service at DEMO today, the firm announced this morning. Trailfire operates a service that allows users to annotate and share web pages with other users, and to view information and comments on web pages by other users. Trailfire is backed by Voyager Capital and WRF Capital.
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Social software company Trailfire plans show of its combination of Web annotation, user-created navigation, commentary, and a social network. The idea of shared Web annotations isn't new but if Trailfire can do it right, it could be very useful. Sadly, CMP's Web filter blocks Trailfire.com as a sex site, so I'm unable to investigate further at the moment. I suppose I'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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What: Trailfire, a way to mark your path across the Internet, leaving notes and links for others to follow. Founders: John O'Halloran and Pat Ferrel worked at Aldus, the Seattle desktop-publishing company sold to Adobe. They founded Trailfire in 2005. The company has nine employees.
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The one odd ball that is not in the video or audio publishing business is Trailfire, a Seattle startup that is announcing a way for users to place the equivalent of electronic sticky notes on Web pages. I have written about Trailfire before, but the new features from the company include the ability for people to add comments to the notes and a redesigned Web site that allows people to find topics of interest. It is also touting something it calls "trails," which are strings of one's personal notes that are linked together. Trailfire, led by former Aldus and NetPodium executive John O'Halloran, plans to make money through online advertising. Here's a look at one of the marks that users can leave on a Web page:
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TrailFire is one of those sites created for the 5-10% of internet users who are annotators, bloggers, social searchers, bookmarkers, Diggers, forum participants or folks who otherwise are willing to spend their time in making information easier for others to access, digest and consume.
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Trailfire, which emerged from private beta this week, lets Web surfers mark web pages with "Trailfire Marks." Those creating the marks need to download a small Internet Explorer 6, IE7 and Firefox 1.6+-friendly extension. Once that's installed, users click on the browser bar icon, and a box appears where they can name the trail, add a small comment, and then surf to other related sites. The hope is that "people who are passionate" about topics will create these trails, explained Trailfire chief executive John O'Halloran, and guide
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Trailfire – creates a digital "crumb trail" of the pages people visit. These trails can be shared and comments and ratings can be added by people who follow the trail.
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Trailfire: Not exactly search. This product is about content discovery but following other users' online Trails of related pages.
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Trailfire is a new way to both mark what you find is important on the Web as well as find other "trails" that people have left for you. I'm not explaining it very well, it's a cool way to group together interesting sites. Here is a good demo of Trailfire and why it might be useful.
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Trailfire Inc. displayed a system that lets people record paths they blaze over the Web, write notes about what they liked and didn't like along the way, and save the entire thread as something others can follow and comment on. Think of it as way to give someone a guided tour of a sliver of the Web.
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Posted at 21:38 on 2007-01-30 by
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