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Mozilla Raindrop
Raindrop was a messaging application building on Apache's CouchDB which was used through a web interface. Raindrop worked by collecting emails and tweets and storing them as JSON optionally with attachments in CouchDB, then serving them to users with CouchDB's webserver so users can view them in their web browsers. By December 2009 there was a prototype for testers but no official stable release. Raindrop was an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, Raindrop was introduced by the Mozilla Foundation on October 22, 2009. As of May 2012, the Mozilla Raindrop project is considered inactive. The website is no longer present.
Article summary
Raindrop was a messaging application building on Apache's CouchDB which was used through a web interface. Raindrop worked by collecting emails and tweets and storing them as JSON optionally with attachments in CouchDB, then serving them to users with CouchDB's webserver so users can view them in their web browsers. By December 2009 there was a prototype for testers but no official stable release. Raindrop was an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, Raindrop was introduced by the Mozilla Foundation on October 22, 2009. As of May 2012, the Mozilla Raindrop project is considered inactive. The website is no longer present.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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