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First Look: Mozilla Snowl

August 7th, 2008 (2:00pm) Imran Ali 4 Comments

Cute. First Apple gave us Snow Leopard and now Mozilla gives us the Snow Owl…will snow* be the prefix for all experimental software products as we head into the next decade? Here’s to Snowrevenue and Snowhope!

Returning to Snowl, hot on the heels of Mozilla Lab’s call for participation in exploring the future of the browser, and the experimental Weave service, comes Mozilla’s efforts to move messaging beyond email and to the types of communication now commonplace across social networks, blogs and services such as Twitter.

Mozilla’s Myk Melez describes Snowl as a browser extension that helps users ‘follow and participate in online discussions’ and track all your conversations across various networks, services, protocols and messaging types.

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