Jeff Schuster

Mozilla is now testing yet another technology to try and help us all integrate the various messages we all generate everyday.

The new Raindrop effort comes from the Mozilla Messaging division as a way to help unify conversations.

“Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser,” the Mozilla Labs Raindrop site states.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that Raindrop at this point is browser agnostic. That is, it is supposed to be able to work on Firefox, Safari or Chrome (sorry IE).

Kinda/sorta might maybe be similar to Google Wave in some ways. Mozilla Labs also has its Snowl effort which brings in conversations from multiple streams as well, though it isn’t tightly integrated with email — instead Snowl is a Firefox add-on.

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Google Wave Screenshot

Google’s new collaboration tool, Wave, runs smoothly inside the iPhone’s Safari browser and feels like a native App Store program, thanks to the so-called “app mode” that kills Safari’s UI.

Google Wave, the new collaboration service that aims to re-invent email, runs inside the iPhone’s Safari browser in a borderless “app mode” that removes the browser’s UI controls and buttons entirely. As a result, the web-based application feels snappy and natural, almost like the native App Store program.

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