Trailfire.com
I’ve managed to recover from the Chargers’ loss long enough to take this quick snapshot of Trailfire’s social “tagging” program on Turnipville.
Trailfire is actually very cool, in that it allows you to make “trails” about certain topics across the web. In many ways, it reminds me of Flickr photo comments…except they can span multiple sites.
The idea here is simple. Download their client (for Firefox or IE), create an account, and then insert your trail comments wherever you deem appropriate on whatever site you’d like. This service (which is free, for now) reminds me of del.icio.us on steriods. I’ve created a “Turnip Network” trail outlining the sites that we’re currently running, but it doesn’t need to be that logical, I’m guessing.
I could see myself creating a trail for every tech-related problem that I solve online. Think about how that works for you. You search Google for “nvidia video card ubuntu,” and you find your total solution after piecing together the text of three or four different pages. Instead of just bookmarking them in del.icio.us (which you’ll probably still do), you also create a trail called “nvidia on ubuntu.” This trail takes you - and your fellow trailfire users - through the path (path, trail, whatever) you’ve just been down, and adds a sequential element to bookmark tagging.
I’ve installed the client, and can definitely get some goodness from it. Go check it out. I think we’ve got a winner here…
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