Trailfire

The idea of annotating the Web has been around for a long time. It goes back to a failed Web 1.0 startup called Third Voice. Today there are a handful…

Five Ways to Mark Up the Web

7:58 pm PDT • April 10, 2007

In 1999, Eng-Sion Tan and two friends launched Third Voice, a browser plugin that would let anyone make annotations on webpages. The intent was to encourage freer speech on the…

Blaze Away with Trailfire

12:26 am PDT • August 16, 2006

Seattle-based Trailfire just launched. It’s a combination of a social bookmarking service (such as del.icio.us) and a social web page annotation tool (see our coverage of the yet-to-launch Stickis). Basically,…