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Mozilla Messaging Unveils Raindrop

Posted by timothy on from the but-these-are-friendly-buzzwords dept.

mhammond writes "Mozilla Messaging has just unveiled a Mozilla Labs project, Raindrop, an experiment with Open Messaging on the Open Web. Raindrop uses couchdb as a storage engine and to serve the HTML/CSS/Javascript application itself, while the back-end is primarily written in Python. Although it is early days yet, the concept that you own your data may be what sets this apart from Google Wave."

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  1. Google Wave by matt4077 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wave is a protocol. It's just the first implementation that is google's. Build your own server and you own everything.

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    1. Re:Google Wave by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 4, Informative

      You can still set up your own server though, and retain total control.

      The creators went into a significant explanation of how you can federate your server to the outside world, or leave them entirely internal. The protocol is the really significant part, and the product is more like an expression of the protocol than the end-all-be-all implementation of it.