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Snowl: Drinking water through a fire hose?

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 | Experimentation | Comments

There is a new Mozilla project called Snowl that is supposed to bring all of you communications together…
Take a look and let me know… doesn’t this look like drinking water through a fire hose? I know just keeping up with my RSS, Twitter and Facebook information is impossible. At what point is too much… just TOO MUCH?

Mozilla Labs announced a new project today called Snowl. It is an add-on for Firefox that aims to bring all of your messages together in one place, whether it is from email, SMS, Twitter, or RSS/Atom feeds. The project right now is an early, buggy prototype that only supports RSS/Atom feeds and Twitter. So that is nothing special.

But once email and SMS is folded into the mix, it could become a very powerful messaging center, built right into the browser. It will allow you to search through all of your messages and feeds, both public and private, no matter where they originate.

[From Snowl: Unified Messaging In Your (Firefox) Browser]

Tags: communications, Mozilla, Tech