The TrailFire add-on, for Firefox (my new favorite browser), is fantastic! It is incredibly useful for exploring the web, keeping track of your train of thought across websites, sharing your train of thought with other people, and more that I'm sure I just haven't figure out yet.
As of now, I am using it to do several things:
1. Save pages in categories instead of using bookmarks and writing notes to remind me of why I saved them.
2. I share my real estate finds with my boyfriend so that we can both check out listings, add to, and edit the list.
3. Save and send articles that I find interesting to other people.
It's great, once you start using it, you will see how useful it is as you sift through the endless information on the web. No longer do you have to waste paper and kill trees to simply remember something you find.
Trailfire rewires the web to your interests. It guides you as you browse, suggesting where
you can find information related to any page you're on at anytime. It also lets you make
your own connections on the web - to link pages that relate to a topic from your own point of view.
At its heart, Trailfire is a community of people helping each other cut through the clutter
on the web. By empowering individuals to distill the web, drawing on their knowledge and
adding their opinions, Trailfire creates a web of meaning.
From there, Trailfire's proprietary technology mines every page in a trail to develop an
understanding of the concepts on it. It uses this expertise to match each individual's
interests to the other trails that are most relevant.
The basic building block of Trailfire is the trail - a collection of web pages on a subject
or concept, hand built and annotated by a trail creator (we call them "guides") on each page.
Trails run the gamut from practical to evangelical to whimsical.
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