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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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    Fleur de Sel
  2. 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.

  3. Meta by lastomega7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like with the current trend of new 'universal aggregators' we'll soon need an aggregator aggregator. I think they planned for this though, with possible titles such as 'mozilla monsoon' and 'google tsunami.'