Tubetrail.com - YouTube At Its Most Social

Tubetrail is an application that has just seen the light of the day. Broadly speaking, it is a solution that will let your friends know what it is you are watching on YouTube. This is done by displaying the videos that you are watching as part of a chart that shows your friends what you have been viewing. This information is presented as part of a personalized Tubetrail page for you to put about and send to your acquaintances.

From a technical standpoint, Tubetrail is a Firefox add-on that you can procure for free after you register at the site. On the other hand, it is always possible to check out an example Tubetrail page to see what does it look like before getting down to actually downloading anything.

As any YouTube adept knows, a similar functionality has been provided in-house by a tool named Active Sharing that shows others what it is you are watching. The one shortcoming of this tool is that it only makes for visualizing this list within YouTube. As such, an application that gives users added independence is a worthwhile addition to the cause.

If I was to make any suggestion, it would be adding some Twitter functionalities or support – even basic ones, such as sending automatic messages when the page itself is created. Twitter might as well be the future of social media, and any social endeavor that aims to make a stand has a better chance if it takes the ever-popular platform into account.

“Tubetrail is something we put together since we thought it would be kind of nice to show other people what we watch on YouTube.”

There is a ready fan base that will seize up any tool expanding the inherent appeal of YouTube.

When is the next site updated scheduled for? What is the first issue that will be addressed?