The Coop, Social Networking For Mozilla 67
smileham noted a story about Mozilla developers considering work on a "social networking" Firefox extension called the "Coop" to take up where Flock left off. Also here is a wiki on the subject.
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(smile, it's a joke)
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What do you mean "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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That said, don't announce your engagement[1], your wife's pregnancy[2], the birth of your child[3], or moving out of Mom's basement[4] on
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This is as stupid as that thing we saw yesterday about "iminlikewithyou" where it's some sort of flirting competition with a bunch of other losers. On the internet. Social networking. Flirting... ON THE INTER
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... they won't have to bathe every week.
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Really, I'd like to see existing social networks evolve and allow more interop before I want to see another new one come up. That's just me though.
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I'm working on something like coop.
What would you like to see in a program like this?
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Really, I'd like to see existing social networks evolve and allow more interop before I want to see another new one come up. That's just me though.
from the Wiki:
Non-Goals
The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services (though a later comment suggests making a server with its own account for people to register on and manage their feeds). It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.)
they basically want the browser to be the glue between existing services rather than create a new service. it'll be interesting to see which companies are open to this and which work to make things difficult
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The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services. It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.)
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I like your observation and agree. If these various service providers give more openings to allow the services to converge naturally it benefits all. So if I tell my internet platform (FireFox) that I have a service on Flickr, Yahoo, Google, or what have you it should able to tie them togeth
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I think this'll be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
/rimshot
Will there be a mini (PDA-viewable) version for our friends at BMW? You know, so they can all be Mini Coopers?
/double rimshot
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
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And then we'll all really be over a barrel!
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Are the Mozilla developers... (Score:1)
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Flock is a feature (Score:1)
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Firstly they are talking about implementing it as an extension. So no bloat added, it even gives you a choice!
Secondly if no experimenting is taking place, no new things will be developed. Experimenting is a necessity to survive. Just following standards will not set new improved standards, there is a reason why there are alpha versions of software: because it has experimental new features and they would like to see if they catch on.
I applaud this move of the Moz team for that matter. Finally an opensource project that looks beyond its own nose.
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I thought Flock had a decent idea but as it developed it became less of the things I wanted and more of the things a 12 year kid might want.
For example, at first the idea of giving "Web 2.0" almost seamless integration sounded great. I imagined it similar to how MSN Explorer integrated Hotmail. I got the idea that Flock would do this with things like Wiki, certain popular blog sites, gmail, youtube, etc. with development making the features increasingly generic so more sites get included in the integrat
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Flock 0.5 (AKA Cardinal) was based on Firefox 1.5, but Danphe (0.7), on through Cormorant (0.8) and the most recent iteration, "Sulfur" (0.8.0.99) use Firefox 2, as far as I know (this from memory). I don't think Flock is using any Firefox 3 code, as yet. The del.icio.us issue was fixed some time ago.
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As somebody who used to live off the nightly builds, I can say that the problem wasn't that the execution was poor - it was that the ideas changed too much, too frequently. Have a vision, document it, and then build it. The programmers appeared to be tasked with executing visions that changed dramatically on a monthly basis.
I would test whole featuresets only to find them disappear completely out of the next build. My (least) favorite was the RSS i
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I'll MSN you about it later. Or do you prefer that I text instead?
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"where Flock left off"? (Score:5, Informative)
Misleading (Score:1)
The software keeps track of friend's favorite youtube videos & myspace updates and yada yada -- but these sites already offer this functionality, why do we need an extension to do it for us?
What would be really cool, and what I mistakenly took the summary for, is a slash-style comment system for the Web. The ENTIRE web. Any page could potentially have a slashdot-style discussion attached to it...imagine the time-killing possibi
Where Flock left off? (Score:1)
IE 8... (Score:1)