The latest project by Mozilla Labs is designed to help users of social networking sites make sense of the flood of messages generated by services such as Twitter, Facebook, and others, giving them an integrated place to read messages that are personal and important while editing out much of the noise that clogs e-mail inboxes today.
Here is more about the program, in a nutshell, from the developers:
When a friend’s link from YouTube or flickr arrives, your messaging client should be able to show the video or photos near or as part of the message, rather than rudely kicking you over to a separate browser tab. Notifications from computers and mailing lists should be organized for you, not clutter your Inbox or require tedious manual filter setup. It should be easy to smoothly integrate new web services into your conversation viewer entirely using open web technologies.
Raindrop will automatically separate out personal messages from those sent by mailing lists and other sources of automated alerts and communications, and users will be able to customize how they wish to group these notifications.
Instead of building yet another application to organize and prioritize communications, Mozilla’s goal with Raindrop is to help users get a handle on the messages they’re already getting, therefore making those existing channels of communication more meaningful.”We aren’t trying to invent new protocols or build new messaging systems, rather focusing on building a product that lets users get a handle on the systems we already use,” reads the post.
The current version of Raindrop is being referred to as 0.1, meaning “not yet ready for everyday use,” but the development team is looking for input from developers and users alike.
Mozilla hopes Raindrop will be customized by its users and will also become a platform for third-party products, according to the post.
