Mozilla Plays with Social Search
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | April 4, 2007 | Share This
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Mozilla’s new “Coop” Firefox extension aggregates your existing social networks within the browser. As TechCrunch reports,
“The Coop product will allow Firefox users to “subscribe” to friends in the browser, bringing those friends into a sidebar. Those friends can share content and web pages with you…Content will be pulled from that person’s Flickr photo feed, del.icio.us tag feed, MySpace status , YouTube favorites, etc. When you want to share content with that user, you simply drag it into their avatar.”
Techcrunch has some theoretical screenshots of the plugin - though, still in labs, the design and functional details are apt to change before its formal release.
As many have pointed out, Mozilla’s aggregation of social data could be the beginning of the end for Flock, a privately-developed social browser that is built on Firefox. StartupMeme lists some other collaborative tools from Mozilla. Based on StartupMeme’s list, it looks like Mozilla is following a trend that Adobe, Microsoft, and others, have already vocalized - the increasing demand for interoperable systems that can transition data across different types of media.
Topics: Open Source, Technology |