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The Coop, Social Networking For Mozilla
smileham noted a story about Mozilla developers considering work on a "social networking" Firefox extension called the "Coop" to take up where Flock left off. Also here is a wiki on the subject.
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It's worse than that - a lot of people on social networking sites aren't even real people. For instance, I'm one of those robot-speech-thingies you hear about. Probably.
I am getting a little tired of the argument: Ohhh they are only adding bloat! It is not streamlined any more. Bladadiebladiebla.
Firstly they are talking about implementing it as an extension. So no bloat added, it even gives you a choice!
Secondly if no experimenting is taking place, no new things will be developed. Experimenting is a necessity to survive. Just following standards will not set new improved standards, there is a reason why there are alpha versions of software: because it has experimental new features and they would like to see if they catch on.
I applaud this move of the Moz team for that matter. Finally an opensource project that looks beyond its own nose.
- In Memoriam: Jeroen de Bruin (1972-2004), bye bro
"Pick up where Flock left off"? That implies that Flock development is over. It sure doesn't look that way from their Web site or their blog... if they're dead, someone might want to tell them ;-)
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