Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype

Jack Spine writes with the story that the Mozilla project "has launched 'Snowl' — an experimental messaging prototype that could allow people to collate and view messages from email, RSS, messaging, and social networks. From the article: 'Key ideas behind the project, called 'Snowl', are to enable users to prioritise messages by importance, and have a search-based interface for message retrieval, according to Mozilla developer Myk Melez. "Could the web browser help you follow and participate in online discussions?" wrote Melez in a blog post on Wednesday. "Snowl is an experiment to answer that question." Another of the key ideas of the project is that browser functionality for navigating web content, including tabs, bookmarks, and history, be used to navigate messages.'"

Snow Owl Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I know how this will work out:

O RLY?
YA RLY
NO WAI

"Snowl"?

[adavies42]

Isn't the appropriate response to this name "ORLY"?

And what...

[comm2k]

will Debians fork be called.. FireOwl? Mozilla guys stick to the heat and stormy side of elements - the icey stuff is taken by the Debianites.

Re:Things I'd like to see in this kind of tool.

[Junior J. Junior III]

What I'd like to see is a tool which tracks where I comment without me having to do anything.

While the Director of Homeland Security doesn't appreciate being called a "tool", he is glad that someone values his work.