Mozilla Labs Raindrop
Raindrop is a very innovative concept from Mozilla Labs. Like countless others these days, Mozilla tries to reinvent email (or rather online communication). So what is Raindrop? A simplified answer is that Raindrop is a communication aggregator with a focus on prioritizing and classifying messages. One of the core objectives of Raindrop is simply to distinguish generic newsletters or broadcasts from personal messages (regardless if that’s a DM on Twitter or a personal email). That sounds like a great idea, but how does it work?
There are three parts to Raindrop, a back-end that fetches the messages, a database (CouchDB) which stores the messages, and a web-based front-end that displays the messages. While Raindrop is still in a very early stage, this project has great potential. Raindrop has been designed to be extremely flexible and modular so as to enable simple expansion.
An article over at the Wall Street Journal titled 