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Mozilla Raindrop: don't call it another Google Wave
Raindrop's main goal is to separate personal conversations from bulk email that's less relevant to you. To that it, it pulls out all of the notifications you get from various web services, as well as messages from newsgroups, and sorts them into separate places. It also brings in Twitter, and separates out replies and direct messages. Other social networks will eventually be integrated, and the UI is still in the draft stages, but Raindrop looks pretty promising for a version 0.1 product. It's not as hard to get your head around (or "revolutionary," depending on who you ask) as Wave, but its focus on the problem of bulk vs. personal communication might make it more useful to the average Internet joe.
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Andrew Pollack said 11:54AM on 10-23-2009
Seems to me you can do that already with a few mail rules.
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motang said 10:02AM on 10-23-2009
It's not Google Wave, but it's more like a center for all your stuff (email, tweets, etc.) it's actually sounds very cool!
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Rodrigo P. Ghedin said 11:23AM on 10-23-2009
It seems more like a FriendFeed user-friendly (or non-geek) than a Google Wave competitor.
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Aaron said 2:38PM on 10-23-2009
Looks like it'll have to do, since I was among the first to ask for a Wave invite and still haven't gotten one.
/whine
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Maggie Darwin said 11:53AM on 10-25-2009
All you need to know to tell the difference between Raindrop and Wave is:
The dev team for Wave previously built Google Maps
The dev team for Raindrop previously built Thunderbird.
Nuff said.
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