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Mozilla’s Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again
TechCrunch — ... services like FriendFeed but with a strong focus in filtering. It will be interesting to see what two-way interactions the platform will feature and what content it eventually will bring in. Because its a modern communication system, it could compete with open communications platform Google Wave. If you’re confused, take a look at the video. It explains the purpose of Raindrop pretty well. Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo. Full disclosure: My ...

Mozilla's Raindrop: An Open and Smart Conversation Aggregator
ReadWriteWeb — ... separate from personal emails. As with most Mozilla products, the group will encourage front-end widgets and code from outside 3rd party developers. While the tool certainly shows promise, it is currently only available to developers. The group's first priority is to build a downloadable installer. To ensure that you're one of the first non-developer testers, keep an eye on labs.mozilla.com/raindrop. Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo. ...

Mozilla Raindrop: Is the Intelligent Inbox Coming?
Mashable! — Mozilla Labs announced a new project today: Raindrop is an “exploration in messaging innovation” brought to you by the same team behind the Thunderbird open source email client. Built around the idea that “email isn’t fun anymore,” Raindrop aims to be a sort of intelligent inbox filtering system that kicks minor messages and notifications to the sidelines while foregrounding messages from Mom and other important people you actually know. Raindrop also wants to pull in messages from Twitter, Facebook, IM, and eventually any other communication platform with an API. Direct messages and @replies would be ...

Mozilla Raindrop wants to be your only inbox
The Next Web — The Mozilla Foundation has announced its latest project – a new take on the idea of a “unified inbox”. 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. Raindrop aims to put all these messages in the same place and sort them automatically to make your life easier. The idea is that Raindrop will bring the most personal and important messages to the fore while allowing you to browse the rest of your messages in ready-sorted lists at your ...

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. Full Article: Mozilla ...

Mozilla unveils prototype communication tool Raindrop
TechSpot — Mozilla has announced a new open-source, experimental communication platform called Raindrop . Built around the idea that "email isn’t fun anymore," the service is meant to act as a mini Web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (email, social networks, blogs and more) and then intelligently sort them so that personal messages "bubble up" while minor messages and notifications are pushed to the sidelines. It shares some similarities with Google Wave in its attempt to re-imagine web communications from the ground up and the ability to extend functionality through an open API -- thus many are already calling it a competitor. However, from what ...

Mozilla’s Raindrop Wants to Solve Your Communication Woes
Webmonkey — Mozilla Labs has debuted a new web-based tool for integrating all your online communications — such as e-mail, Twitter, Skype and Facebook — into a single interface. It uses a series of intelligent filters to highlight what’s important to you, bringing the conversations with people or updates from services you care about the most to the top, and keeping the stuff that can wait out of sight until you’re ready to look at it. It’s called Raindrop, and it fetches all of your communications from different sources like mail servers, Twitter and RSS feeds. Then, Raindrop intelligently surfaces the “important parts,” ...

Mozilla Raindrop Keeps Messaging Personal [News]
Lifehacker — [image] Today, Mozilla announced a new open source project called Raindrop, a service that pulls your social content from multiple sources and organizes it in one place to create a centralized messaging experience that matters to you. The goal of Raindrop is to make email and messaging personal again, and allow complete customizability in how you manage that information. It brings in content from multiple, sources such as Twitter, RSS feeds, and email, and presents it in one central, web-based front end. Thus, instead of having to watch multiple sources just to keep up on your personal conversations, you can focus on one single bucket. Raindrop can also decide ...

Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter
Gizmos for Geeks — Do you get too much e-mail, whose volume has grown significantly in recent times due to social networking notifications from the likes of Facebook & Twitter? How do you sort it out and quickly? Filters? Folders? Those methods may be doing the trick right now, but Mozilla Labs is working on a different approach – creating views of your messages (not necessarily e-mail only) and letting you interact with those conversations without having to switch applications. 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 ...