Mozilla Messaging Unveils Raindrop

mhammond writes "Mozilla Messaging has just unveiled a Mozilla Labs project, Raindrop, an experiment with Open Messaging on the Open Web. Raindrop uses couchdb as a storage engine and to serve the HTML/CSS/Javascript application itself, while the back-end is primarily written in Python. Although it is early days yet, the concept that you own your data may be what sets this apart from Google Wave."

Google Wave

[matt4077]

Wave is a protocol. It's just the first implementation that is google's. Build your own server and you own everything.

Re:Google Wave

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, as stated on the Google Wave video (the first one) it's a platform, a protocol and a product /pedant

XD

Re:Google Wave

[GMFTatsujin]

You can still set up your own server though, and retain total control.

The creators went into a significant explanation of how you can federate your server to the outside world, or leave them entirely internal. The protocol is the really significant part, and the product is more like an expression of the protocol than the end-all-be-all implementation of it.

Re:Google Wave

[Eil]

After watching the video linked to in TFA, I can't see how this is anything at all like Google Wave. All they apparently share in common is that they both have something to do with communication and the web.

I have yet to actually try it out, but to me, Raindrop looks like what would happen if you wrote an ordinary web email client and added support for twitter and facebook. I don't see why you couldn't achieve the same thing on the desktop with a few Thunderbird extensions.

Re:Finish Thunderbird first?

[Zarel]

From TFA:

Today we’re introducing Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird

So he'd be right to assume so. ;)