Trailfire, taking the Digg concept to the personal level
Sunday, August 20, 2006
There's been a rash of new Web 2.0 websites coming up, such as Digg and Netscape are a few popular names with the social networking, but I've been using and admiring this new site called Trailfire, which allows you create your own Digg or netscape with your own trail of posts or URL's that you like with comments on them and etc. All you need to do is signup and download a plugin for IE/Firefox, no Opera support yet, but once you set it up it's a small toolbar with 2 icons, one to click on sites and another for managing your trailfire account. In your trailfire account you can manage your profile, see what you're marked for trails, see your subscriptions, so that you can subscribe to other people's trails and see what they've been looking at. So if you find someone interesting you can just simply follow them all from one page. The site is pretty helpful in itself, showing you easily how to do everything I've said up there, and has a guided tour for those like to see all the features explained in detail. The explore feature is cool, you search for a keyword and see all the trails that are related to that subject, kind of like a database. Or you can view most active users and see what they're all about. This site is all about being social and generating user content, meaning you have to post trails in order for it to be a hit, and so far, it seems like they're on the right track. If you're looking to show people what you like on the web visit Trailfire here and make your own trails!
My username on this is DaSnipe, subscribe me if you're looking for random interesting stuff :)
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 8:54 PM
