orlox
October 25th, 2009, 03:37 PM
Has anyone here heard about mozilla raindrop (http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop)?
It's still at a very early stage, and I'm not sure what will become of it when it matures. However, the interesting part is that a man from mozilla involved in this, Brian Clark, posted this on the gnome-shell list:
Hey -
We just announced the release of Raindrop [1] a new messaging system we've been working on for a little while now. I'm announcing to this list because I think Raindrop could provide a lot of value to gnome-shell as many of the design goals are similar. It's likely best to read the introduction blog entry [2] and look over the limited code documentation [3] if you're interested but I'll give the 30 second run down here.
Raindrop is being designed as a message system specifically for how people communicate in today's web environment; i.e. email, mailing lists, twitter, etc. The system itself is a CouchDB daemon service that knows how to pull down your email and twitter (process and index them) and then can serve them back as JSON objects. Raindrop includes a built in messaging web application that also gets served from the same place, you'll see demos of it in the videos.
We only had the chance to do a couple iterations and are working to develop some real web apis [4] which could be useful for integration of contacts, messages, and other data Raindrop provides.
I'm not suggesting that gnome-shell pulls in Raindrop today and starts using it, we are definitely not ready for that. I am hoping that gnome-shell people will find Raindrop interesting and that we can start looking at how we could work with each if it makes sense.
Let me know if there are questions. I still can't seem to run the shell with my thinkpad nvidia card but am looking for another system to try it on.
Cheers,
~ Bryan
Wonder what could come out of this...
It's still at a very early stage, and I'm not sure what will become of it when it matures. However, the interesting part is that a man from mozilla involved in this, Brian Clark, posted this on the gnome-shell list:
Hey -
We just announced the release of Raindrop [1] a new messaging system we've been working on for a little while now. I'm announcing to this list because I think Raindrop could provide a lot of value to gnome-shell as many of the design goals are similar. It's likely best to read the introduction blog entry [2] and look over the limited code documentation [3] if you're interested but I'll give the 30 second run down here.
Raindrop is being designed as a message system specifically for how people communicate in today's web environment; i.e. email, mailing lists, twitter, etc. The system itself is a CouchDB daemon service that knows how to pull down your email and twitter (process and index them) and then can serve them back as JSON objects. Raindrop includes a built in messaging web application that also gets served from the same place, you'll see demos of it in the videos.
We only had the chance to do a couple iterations and are working to develop some real web apis [4] which could be useful for integration of contacts, messages, and other data Raindrop provides.
I'm not suggesting that gnome-shell pulls in Raindrop today and starts using it, we are definitely not ready for that. I am hoping that gnome-shell people will find Raindrop interesting and that we can start looking at how we could work with each if it makes sense.
Let me know if there are questions. I still can't seem to run the shell with my thinkpad nvidia card but am looking for another system to try it on.
Cheers,
~ Bryan
Wonder what could come out of this...