The Mozilla Thunderbird team released an application called Raindrop to Mozilla labs today. Raindrop aims to centralize all types of communication such as e-mail, Facebook, and even Twitter into a single interface that has enough smarts to separate those important messages your Mom sent you from everything else.
When email was first invented it was the main method of communication on the internet, but now with Twitter, Facebook, and Skype that is no longer the case. These new ways of communication are great but all this means is that we now have to check ten different places for new messages. In a blog post one of the Raindrop developers said, “We hope to lead and spur the development of extensible applications that help users easily and enjoyably manage their conversations, notifications, and messages across a variety of online services.”
Raindrop will recognize messages from various different mailing lists or other services that send numerous updates and files them into separate categories.
Raindrop is not a downloadable piece of software, it is actually a web application. Developers say “Our flagship applications will be built entirely for any modern web browser that supports open web technologies.”
Would you use Raindrop to centralize all your messages?
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