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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. I hope that will be a non browser client by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As in a desktop client written specifically to utilize this.

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    1. Re:I hope that will be a non browser client by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If it's more convenient to shoehorn every activity into a single monolithic application than "switch between applications," then your desktop environment is built wrong.

    2. Re:I hope that will be a non browser client by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If it's more convenient to shoehorn every activity into a single monolithic application than "switch between applications," then your desktop environment is built wrong.

      That stops being true if there is a lot of overlap between those apps.

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    3. Re:I hope that will be a non browser client by buchner.johannes · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Maybe similar to this persona editor project. Libraries that are able to tap into proprietary websites (social networks, etc.) to escape from vendor lock-in would be great.

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  2. Finish Thunderbird first? by mR.bRiGhTsId3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one who wishes they would hurry up and finish TB 3, and integrate that will all the Web 2 goodness, instead of these random projects?

    1. Re:Finish Thunderbird first? by mR.bRiGhTsId3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You do realize that Mozilla Messaging was created specifically as a steward for Thunderbird because it wasn't getting the love it deserved from the Mozilla Foundation right?

    2. Re:Finish Thunderbird first? by Have+Brain+Will+Rent · · Score: 2, Insightful

      the world is moving to webmail

      Some of the world may be moving to web based email but not everybody. I'm certainly not - I want my email on my machine where I can control it, especially since much of it is confidential in nature. If I want off-site access I'll tunnel.

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  3. TFS is ludicrous by DragonWriter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Although it is early days yet, the concept that you own your data may be what sets this apart from Google Wave.

    The centerpiece of Wave is a server-to-server federation protocol that lets anyone control their own data that can be made accessible through Wave. So, with all the things that might set Mozilla's product apart from Wave, "the concept that you own your data" is not one of them.

  4. I read TFA by Grimnir512 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I read TFA over a few times and I'm not so sure what this is or how it works. It seems to be some sort of email/twitter/facebook aggregator. Have I understood this correctly?