Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype 85
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.'"
This would be neat (Score:5, Interesting)
I have chatlogs & emails dating back 12+ years, so having a good (context-aware) interface for searching all at once would be great. I don't always remember in which medium I spoke with someone. Was it on IRC? Was it on AIM? Email?
It'd need to be able to parse many different formats to be useful, though. I have text-based chatlogs from the old Hotline servers, AIM chats from the official client, from iChat, from Adium. Etc, etc. Would be neat if you could write a regex-based plugin to parse the text-formats.
Things I'd like to see in this kind of tool. (Score:5, Interesting)
2. Post replies like email does, back to the service that provided the item you're replying too.
3. Have a post to all services option.
4. Keep a local cache of all these messages, the social graph, and allow export to csv or to another service.
5. Laconi.ca support.
6. Rules that let the user selectively forward items via sms.
gateway to a news feed? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wouldn't feeding everything into a news server and then reading it with a newsreader that supports scoring do this?
I've used this in the past to read mailing lists, gateway the emails onto a local news server and then you (mostly) get proper threading.
Set up the local group as moderated and you can even use the news server to reply (but be careful if you do this as a small bug can result in you echoing every message you receive back to the mailing list which will not make you popular)
Tim.
Re:Things I'd like to see in this kind of tool. (Score:5, Interesting)
What I'd like to see is a tool which tracks where I comment without me having to do anything.
So I surf the web and make a random comment on a weblog, and I want to be notified if someone replies to my comment without having to subscribe to the comment feed.
It should happen automatically and the subscripiont should silently be dropped after a while if I didn't go back.
Now I comment here and there (blogs, forums, google groups, etc.) and if I forgot to go back then I don't know if someone made an insightful reply to comment, etc.
So a tool would be nice which would automatically take note where I contribute something and monitor that place for changes. I guess we're not there yet, but I hope it happens soon.
Use Emacs as the starting point (Score:4, Interesting)
No seriously. Fire up the usenet reader in Emacs and look at the scoring system. Very simple just +/- on users and threads but over time it becomes very powerful at filtering out the crap. Something like that with Bayesian maths around it would be great.
And of course you could display the dates in Mayan, with a bit of modding, which is useful given that this is what apparently tells us the end of the world [greatdreams.com]
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