Open Messaging for the Open Web

Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.

Raindrop's mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend's blog or as part of a social networking site.

For all of you out there on Twitter, for those who tweet regularly or just once in a while, do you get messages from both your archivist/RM friends and from your “other” friends?

There is a way to fix this, at least eliminate some of the confusion:

There are things called hashtags. A group of people agree to precede a certain word with the pound (#) symbol and various applications like TwitterGrid and Tweeter and TweetDeck can search for or sort by these hashtags to make your Tweeting a bit easier.

I decided to write an application in Adobe Air that would implement our architecture and aggregate lots of incoming data from the social web, but someone beat me to it ;-)

very interesting.

I'm thinking about skills to teach to my own kids for intellectual and emotional management....

Also here:

http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2009/03/guardian-bloggingpodcastingtwitter...