Mozilla Experiments With Messaging in the Browser: Snowl

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Mozilla Experiments With Messaging in the Browser: Snowl [labs.mozilla.com]

Conversing (a.k.a. messaging) is a common online activity, and a number of desktop and web applications enable it. But with an increasing variety of protocols and providers, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of all your conversations.

Could the web browser help you follow and participate in online discussions?

Snowl is an experiment to answer that question. It's a prototype Firefox extension that integrates messaging into the browser based on a few key ideas

Snowl for Firefox.
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Reminds me of the old news reader interface, with some obvious updates. I have thought many times that it would be handy to have a messaging center (email client) that allowed the left hand panel to change the view to your address/contacts/buddy list and manage messaging from there would be ideal. I think it needs to incorporate cell phone messaging as well though. I send a lot of messages from the browser and email client to cell phones.