A Mozilla Labs project aims to drive social networking features into the Firefox web browser.
Work is underway on The Coop, an add-on for Firefox that will tap the social aspects of popular web services such as photo sharing, blogging, and tagging, as well as sharing the user’s activity with their friends.
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.
Perhaps the most surprising thing I heard when I interviewed enterprises for our “Building the Virtual Workplace” benchmark was the statement by the CTO of a graphic design company that they were using Second Life as their primary collaboration environment. Up until that point, I hadn’t thought about Second Life as much more than an entertainment vehicle, but perhaps we’re on the brink of radically changing the way groups of individuals collaborate?Second Life is a 3-dimensional virtual reality environment in which residents create avatars and use a software application to explore a virtual world.
