Mozilla, known for its development of Firefox, today released a new software, raindrop, which is an open-source communication and stream delivery platform developed in partnership with Thunderbird, it is designed to provide users with an open and scalable online service for managing conversations, notifications, messages, and all other communications. Nowadays, computer users can communicate with others in many ways, for example, instant messaging software such as MSN, email, Facebook, and other social networks, Weibo such as Twitter, and YouTube video websites. a core concept of raindrop is to provide users with private communication, integrate all personal information.
Now, when a friend sends you a video or image link, you need to click the link to open the page to watch the video or browse the image. The concept of raindrop is, your communication client can display the content directly in the information without clicking to enter. Content from other places or emails does not need to be manually processed by users. raindrop will automatically organize the content for you. You can easily use open web technology to integrate new Web Services in your dialog box.
Raindrop is an interface designed to help users deal with their digital life based on today's web call technology, sort information from different places (such as social networking sites, mailboxes, and instant messaging clients. David Ascher, Mozilla communications director, said that in the future, raindrop will support all communication technologies using open platforms, such as social networking websites Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Twitter, which will also drive the development of these services.
Mozilla will also open the raindrop API. developers can developProgramSoftware. Today, the Mozilla lab released only version 0.1 of raindrop, but also an early prototype that supports safari, chrome, and Firefox browsers.
Download raindrop:
Https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/Install
Learn more about raindrop:
Http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-raindrop/