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Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences. Raindrop's mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations ...
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Introducing Raindrop
Introducing Raindrop
labs.mozilla.com — Today we’re introducing Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird,... to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences. We hope to lead and ... (more) Introducing Raindrop
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Mozilla’s Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again
TechCrunch — ... Mozilla Labs, Mozilla’s innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop. Mozilla says that Raindrop was built to be focused on highlighting and breaking out personal conversations, making it easier for you to see all of your conversations in one client. It is designed to “bubble up” the important conversations from your messages ...

Mozilla's Raindrop: An Open and Smart Conversation Aggregator
ReadWriteWeb — ... While most conversation aggregators are concerned with harnessing your river of data, Mozilla is breaking it down into manageable raindrops. According to a morning blog post on the Mozilla Labs site the company is launching the prototype for Raindrop 0.1, a product that they're calling "open messaging for the open web". While Mozilla's ...

Mozilla's Raindrop is All About Aggregation and Being Open
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... Raindrop is currently only open to developers. Hopefully we’ll see a full downloadable installer in the near future. If this sort of content aggregation/sorting sounds interesting to you, keep an eye on the Mozilla Labs site for details. ...

Mozilla's Raindrop Project Sifts and Sorts Messaging Views
OStatic blogs — ... Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new project, Raindrop, that it characterizes as an "open experiment in messaging on the web." From the messaging team behind Mozilla's Thunderbird email project, Raindrop uses a mini web server to sift conversations from various sources such as mail, Twitter and RSS feeds, and attempts to pull out the important parts and have them rise to the top. It works with Firefox, Safari or Chrome, and though it's still in its infancy, the open source project looks promising and bears some very rough resemblance to what Google is trying to do with ...

Mozilla's Raindrop Project Sifts and Sorts Messaging Views [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new project, Raindrop, that it characterizes as an "open experiment in messaging on the web." From the messaging team behind Mozilla's Thunderbird email project, Raindrop uses a mini web server to sift conversations from various sources such as mail, Twitter and RSS feeds, and attempts to pull out the important parts and have them rise to the top. It works with Firefox, Safari or Chrome, and though it's still in its infancy, the open source project looks promising and bears some very rough resemblance to what Google ...

Mozilla Raindrop wants to be your only inbox
The Next Web — ... Raindrop is based on the idea that email isn’t the only thing people need to check regularly. Many people now have multiple email addresses, Twitter accounts, a Facebook account, IM accounts and more all vying for their attention. ...

Mozilla Intros Conversation Aggregator
AppScout — ... The folks who brought you Mozilla's Thunderbird have introduced a new conversation aggregator called Raindrop. The service pulls in information from various customized streams like e-mail, Twiiter, and RSS feeds, aiming to pull out and highlight the parts of the conversations that are most important to the user. ...

Mozilla unveiled ‘Raindrop’
D' Technology Weblog — ... Mozilla have released “Raindrop,” an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences. It's in the form of a web-app, though to better describe it, we've embedded some videos below for you to watch. It's said that Raindrop is not intended to replace your current email solution, but to simply build on it by providing a much more intelligent way of showing messages. ...

Mozilla releases Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool
Macworld — ... sorts them. The purpose of Raindrop is to allow people to have clearer view of messages they’re getting and not let the personal ones be obscured in an e-mail box among, for example, a morass of Facebook or Flickr notifications. It will also be able to handle notifications from YouTube, blogs and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. “E-mail was already overloaded” even before Web services such as social networks started sending updates to users, said Clark in a video posted to the Raindrop Web site . Clark gives the example of an advertisement from an airline, for instance, ...

Mozilla Unveils Raindrop Messaging Dashboard
TechWeb — ... would look like if it were invented today, Mozilla's Raindrop represents an attempt to imagine a more modern communication client. Developed by the team that created Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail ...

4 Reasons Why Mozilla’s Raindrop & the Intelligent Inbox Matter [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Raindrop, which the company calls an “open experiment in web messaging,” is that for many users, ...

Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter
Gizmos for Geeks — ... The new project is called Raindrop and while it won’t necessarily replace your e-mail client, it could significantly complement it. Although still in its infancy, Raindrop has promise. ...

Raindrop Looks Like an Awesome Universal Inbox in Concept Designs [Inboxes]
Lifehacker — [image] Mozilla's Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission , but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook, and other conversations into one organized stream. Andy Chung has made his initial designs for RainDrop's mobile implementation available as a Flickr set , and they show a really, really simplified way of looking at what's coming in. Twitter replies, emails, Facebook comments they're all just different-colored messages, ...

Raindrop's Universal Inbox Looks Awesome in Concept Designs [Inboxes]
Lifehacker — [image] Mozilla's Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission , but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook, and other conversations into one organized stream. Andy Chung has made his initial designs for RainDrop's mobile implementation available as a Flickr set , and they show a really, really simplified way of looking at what's coming in. Twitter replies, emails, Facebook comments they're all just different-colored messages, ...

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