Comments on: Snowl: Unified Messaging In Your (Firefox) Browser

By: Ryan G

Ryan G — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:46:21 +0000

Looks like a handy tool.

By: Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs

Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:34:07 +0000

[...] joins the recently announced Labs projects Ubiquity and Snowl. We’ll post more details as soon as we get them. [...]

By: Constant Flux › Snowl - Experimental Universal Aggregator Of Tomorrow

Constant Flux › Snowl - Experimental Universal Aggregator Of Tomorrow — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:28:14 +0000

[...] step towards this bright new universally aggregated future. The technoluddites at ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch weren’t impressed, but what did they expect? This is just version 0.1 of the most exciting [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:47:56 +0000

I really like the concept. But I already do some of this through flock and have found it pretty damn good so far. That said may be worth a try – the more I can do with firefox the less I’ll have to switch between browsers.

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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:33:57 +0000

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By: Homefinding Book

Homefinding Book — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:35:04 +0000

No IM?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:38:50 +0000

I work for a company that develops software using Mozilla’s technologies. Personally, I’m disappointed with the user interface focus of many Mozilla Lab projects. Mozilla Labs is becoming a UI research center for the Firefox web browser. Snowl is one example. It is primarily an end-user interface experiment. The Concept Series featured on their home page is yet another UI driven project that is looking for people to contribute to the future development of the Firefox online experience.

The UI focus is obvious on the Labs project page – all the projects except one are listed under “User Interface”. Personally, I think Weave and and Prism have a broader scope than just a UI project.

UI innovation is important. It’s sexy. It appeals to end-users. But when the UI becomes the primary driving force for Lab initiatives you no longer have a research Lab – you have a design factory for UI components.

By: Bloat ware

Bloat ware — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:56:40 +0000

Good point.

CTRL+Tab vs. ALT+ Tab

Mozilla stands to benefit the more you do within their product, however. Only problem is, not many people use FF+ add-ons. Google’s referral fees are causing bloat at this foundation.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:06:56 +0000

I don’t really understand why exactly we need to have everything within Firefox. Now we switch from one app to another for multiple tasks and if all the messages are in the browser, we will simply have to switch between tabs. Where is the real difference? It is still multi-tasking and it still shifts your attention between tasks, that’s the problem, not where exactly you perform those tasks.

By: atn

atn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:42:09 +0000

Take a look at atn at http://www.alltradersnet.com it already does that

-twitter

By: Mozilla Snowl

Mozilla Snowl — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:56:06 +0000

[...] Labs ha anunciado un nuevo proyecto llamado Snowl. Se trata de un add-on para Firefox que tiene como función reunir todos los mensajes en un mismo [...]

By: Lisha Sterling

Lisha Sterling — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:45:52 +0000

Only if you can have group conversations AROUND the other messaging content in Snowl. To me, that’s what makes friendfeed the awesome. Whereas, say, when someone posts a share in GoogleReader I have to email them or share the same item with a new note to respond to them about that share, in FriendFeed I can comment right where the share shows up in the feed, and not only my friend, but anyone, can continue the conversation from there. Snowl couldn’t really do that without some sort of server-side infrastructure, so it won’t be the same thing.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:12:53 +0000

O RLY?

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:27:41 +0000

wow, I’ve been working on an idea like this for a while now… good to see the big dogs got the same inspiration.

hopefully it’ll work out!

By: vr

vr — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:53:26 +0000

It does if you bake.. drop in the chocolate bits and fold in the cookie batter.

By: Snowl：火狐浏览器的野心 | SilenceWolf

Snowl：火狐浏览器的野心 | SilenceWolf — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:22:09 +0000

[...] (via TechCrunch) 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. Read more. [...]

By: Mark Z

Mark Z — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:42:03 +0000

Can we PLEASE stop using the word fold in these articles?? It makes no sense! It is so annoying.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Snowl：全メッセージをブラウザー（Firefox）で集中管理

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Snowl：全メッセージをブラウザー（Firefox）で集中管理 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:02:30 +0000

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By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:37:13 +0000

Potentially a great tool for road warriors.

By: Matthew Rathbone

Matthew Rathbone — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:14:15 +0000

I don’t think this will kill anything, but it might replace gmail notifier.

By: deron

deron — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:02:10 +0000

Is this any different then what the Flock browser delivers?

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:37:04 +0000

friendfeed killer

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:28:29 +0000

A side benefit of this to Mozilla is that they will have a fresh batch of new user registration activity for the AddOn service.

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