p2pnet - rss feed: In the hen house with Firefox
p2pnet.net news:- Mozilla has joined the crowd so you can join the crowd.
It’s developing The Coop, a Firefox add-on meant to let users, “keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends”.
Should there maybe have been a hyphen in there to make it Co-Op? Or does Mozilla really mean ‘coop’ as in a place where a bunch of hens cackle together? ‘Coop’ is also slang for ‘prison,’ or a place where cops skive off.
Anyway, Mozilla says it’ll, “integrate with popular web services, using their existing data feeds as a transport mechanism.
“Users will see their friends’ faces, and by clicking on them will be able to get a list of that person’s recently added Flickr photos, favourite YouTube videos, tagged websites, composed blog posts, updated Facebook status, etc. If a user wants to share something with a friend, they simply drag that thing onto their friend’s face. When they receive something from a friend, that friend’s face glows to get the user’s attention.”
But wait! They really do mean poultry run!
“Like a real chicken coop, the UI will have boxes in which each of a user’s friends will live,” says Mozilla. “The boxes will be filled with an avatar (drawn from flickr by default?) and represent that friend.”
The name may be a bit unfortunate (IOHO) but the idea will attract interest because it’s Mozilla, and also because a lot of people are tired of seeing Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace, and other corporate hang-outs of this ilk, represented as the only gathering places.
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