Mozilla Messaging Unveils Raindrop 92
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from the but-these-are-friendly-buzzwords dept.
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."
I hope that will be a non browser client (Score:5, Insightful)
As in a desktop client written specifically to utilize this.
Finish Thunderbird first? (Score:5, Insightful)
TFS is ludicrous (Score:5, Insightful)
The centerpiece of Wave is a server-to-server federation protocol that lets anyone control their own data that can be made accessible through Wave. So, with all the things that might set Mozilla's product apart from Wave, "the concept that you own your data" is not one of them.
Re:Finish Thunderbird first? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I hope that will be a non browser client (Score:5, Insightful)
If it's more convenient to shoehorn every activity into a single monolithic application than "switch between applications," then your desktop environment is built wrong.
I read TFA (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I hope that will be a non browser client (Score:5, Insightful)
If it's more convenient to shoehorn every activity into a single monolithic application than "switch between applications," then your desktop environment is built wrong.
That stops being true if there is a lot of overlap between those apps.
Re:Finish Thunderbird first? (Score:3, Insightful)
the world is moving to webmail
Some of the world may be moving to web based email but not everybody. I'm certainly not - I want my email on my machine where I can control it, especially since much of it is confidential in nature. If I want off-site access I'll tunnel.
Re:I hope that will be a non browser client (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe similar to this persona editor project [youtube.com]. Libraries that are able to tap into proprietary websites (social networks, etc.) to escape from vendor lock-in would be great.