Just a few years ago, one of the most popular uses of the internet was to send jokes, cute pictures, and news stories to friends and family (social networks) via email. Fast forward to today, and you’ll find that not a lot has changed except the medium. Now one of the most common uses of instant messenger services and social networking sites is to send people links to jokes, cute pictures and interesting news stories.
This behavior isn’t at all surprising – it’s friends sharing experiences, the very backbone of social interactions and friendships. It’s also unsurprising that most “Web 2.0″ services have a feature that makes it easy for you to build a social network so that you can share things more easily, or subscribe to a friend’s activity as a way of keeping in touch.
What is surprising, however, is how little of this type of functionality has made it into today’s web browsers. The result is that when people think of tools for social interaction, email and instant messenger are at the top of their list, not web browsers.
Enter “The Coop”, a Mozilla Labs project to experiment with adding social tools to the web browser. We want to create a fun and easy way to share links with your friends, and to browse the set of links that friends have shared with you. We also want to make it easy to “subscribe” to a friend in order to make it easy to keep track of the pictures, movies, blog posts and status information that they might be posting on a variety of services. There’s a project page that describes The Coop in a bit more detail, and also has some mockups of how it might look (my favorite is the idea for a view that shows a stream of recently shared material.)
Myk Melez has also made an initial prototype available. (Note that you’ll have to allow add-ons to be installed from labs.mozilla.com in order to install The Coop.) This first build uses Facebook’s “Share” feature as the data transport layer for now, and allows you to share web content by dragging it onto your friend’s picture. As the project page indicates, we’re thinking of several different data transport mechanisms, as well as how we want to expose various interactions. This prototype really helps to get a feeling of what The Coop might become over time.
If you’re interested in an easier way to share your cool online experiences with your friends, we encourage you to check out the project page and the prototype (one cool feature of the new AMO sandbox is that you can browse the code), and then come join us in the forums and help us iterate on the design and code.
Update! We have made The Coop available at a new location here and have updated the original link above. Note that you will have to allow add-ons to be installed from labs.mozilla.com in order to install this prototype.
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[...] Scott Gilbertson reports: Mozilla labs has floating an interesting new project, dubbed The Coop, that aims to integrate social network features directly into the Firefox browser. Of course the idea isn’t new, Flock, the “social” browser built on the Firefox code-base, was supposed to deliver more or less the same functionality. But with Flock 1.0 looking more and more like vaporware every day, The Coop may be a way for Mozilla to implement some of Flock’s good ideas in a more timely fashion. [...]
[...] Examples Flickr Youtube the coop (mozilla labs open source project) http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/04/keep-track-of-your-friends-with-the-coop/ [...]
[...] In early April 2007, sites began popping up all over the internet addressing one of Mozilla’s new endeavors with Firefox: The Coop. The Coop, which will potentially be Firefox’s built-in social network tool, is currently a project in Mozilla Labs. According to its Mozilla wiki, The Coop’s “design was influenced by Chris Messina’s mock up for the unimplemented “People in the Browser” feature, with a horizontal bar containing avatars for a user’s friends, and icons overlaid on those avatars to indicate the presence of new content.” [...]
[...] – Flock and The Coop are the newest of the bunch. Both bring your SNS friends into a sidebar of Firefox, making to easy to share content with them. Eventually you can drag and drop content into their avatar! [...]
[...] Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Keep track of your friends with The Coop [...]
[...] The Coop es la red social que os comentaba previamente, y que ya podéis probar. [...]
[...] Recently mozilla announced their entry into the world of social networking, with the coop addition to the firefox browser. They have made a mock up available, and have talked about the development and the features here in their blog. [...]
[…] The announcement of The Coop, a number of social feature to be built into the Firefox browser through an extension, has lots of pundits considering the ramifications for the Flock browser project, which is trying to built something very similar. […]
[...] Think MySpace meets Firefox. For the effort, called "The Coop," Mozilla says it will "let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends. It will integrate with popular web services, using their existing data feeds as a transport mechanism." [...]
[...] Larry Dignan: Mozilla tinkers with in-browser social network.Mozilla blog. Techcrunch on Mozilla impact on social sites. [...]
[...] Coop va permite utilizatorilor Firefox sa “subscrie” la prietenii sai si la continutul produs sau facut public de catre acestia. Prietenii vor fi vizibili intr-un side-bar ca avataruri sau poze si vor putea face schimb de content, in ambele sensuri, cu utilizatorul. [...]
[...] The Coop [...]
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[...] Over the past few days I’ve noticed some large companies hopping into the space that was previously the domain of some much smaller startups. To start, Mozilla Labs is working on a social networking add-on to Firefox which may put the kibosh on Flock (more on that later), and then today, Google launched MyMaps which has many similarities to Wayfaring. This reminds me a bit of Kiko’s predicament but will it turn out the same? [...]
[...] Any usablility guru (and even some normal folk) will tell you that interrupting the user’s flow is a bad thing. Instead of forcing the user into your conceptual model, try working within theirs. In Firefox, you can look at extensions like Operator, Fleck, The Coop and Joey to see where the trend is headed. Heck, Flock is built on the concept. Allowing the user to contribute or share while performing normal browsing, with as few steps as possible, will maximize the value of the community. [...]
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[...] Mozilla labs is talking about plans to incorporate social networking into Firefox with The Coop. The idea behind The Coop is to allow users to keep track of their friends online. Users will be able to see their friends faces and by clicking on a friends picture get a list of their recently added Flikr photos, tagged websites, blog posts, favorite YouTube videos etc. Users can share items with friends by simply dragging an item onto a friends photo. When you receive something sent from a friend that friends face will glow to let you know. [...]
[...] At least, this plug-in gives a first feeling of what TheCoop plug-in from Mozilla could bring. [...]
[...] Hello and Welcome After a year of me slugging away at buildbot-related stuff, I’ve finally got some serious help. Chris Cooper (aka Coop, not to be confused with The Coop) has been digging into the buildbot setups and machinery running the unittest boxes and is helping out with the performance stuff. He’s been able to make sense of my haphazard documentation and run an install on the currently sluggish qm-xserve01, so a big thank you for that. [...]
[...] According to a recent post on the Mozilla Labs blog, they are working on adding social tools to Firefox — making it easy to share what you’re browsing with a friend. It makes perfect sense. Many web sites have sharing and friend tracking features that add a lot to their appeal. Bookmarking services like Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon already have browser plugin components. But they (obviously) work on the bookmark level, not on individual pictures, video clips, or other chunks of content. [...]
[...] BumpIn is operating in a fairly crowded space — other applications that do similar to exactly the same things include Me.Dium, Swarm, Flock, Eyebees and to some extent MeeboMe. What’s more, Mozilla Labs has already announced that they are also building The Coop, a social networking tool to be built into the next version of Firefox. [...]
[...] However, scrutinizing eyes of an elder sibling doth covet those finer, social trappings of Flock the younger: “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.” [...]
[...] นอกจากยักษ์ๆด้านเว็บแล้ว ผู้พัฒนา web browser อย่าง Mozilla ก็ยังมาเล่นกับเค้าด้วย โครงการที่ชื่อว่า "The Coup" โดยมีการนำ Feature หลัก ของ Social Networking คือ การ Share และ การหาเพื่อน โดยผ่านตัว web browser [...]
uhhhhh …. so, does this thing work? or is this a ‘will be’?
[...] Coop is an extension that I am currently working on for my DPS909 project called Desktop Social [...]
I’ve already installed The Coop on FireFox… but how do I log in? Everytime i push the Log In button nothing happens
Is this project supported? Still version 0.1 after more than half year
[...] Flock. Being a die hard fan of Flock, this raised some concerns for me. However, looking at the new Coop product, I think that it misses the mark for the average Flock user. The Coop creates a sidebar of your [...]
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[...] has released the scoop on Coop (sorry, couldn’t resist), a product that will incorporate social networking right into the [...]
I’m surprised no on has mentioned Friend Feed here yet. They are doing the tying together of social networks based on the people and their extension for FireFox mySocial24×7 seems to do what this project sets out to do in a similar sort of way. FriendFeed is doing the aggregation of people’s networks and the extension is displaying and giving access to the conversations.
[...] โครงการที่ชื่อว่า "The Coup" โดยมีการนำ Feature หลัก ของ Social Networking คือ การ [...]
[...] Keep track of your friends with The Coop [...]
[...] see any difference. The so called great features of FF3 viz offline support and apis for the same, social features etc are completely missing. So there is faster javascript and stuff, but for people in the third [...]
[...] see any difference. The so called great features of FF3 viz offline support and apis for the same, social features etc are completely missing. So there is faster javascript and stuff, but for people in the third [...]
I am using Mozilla from 1 year but i never come to about this need to find some thing interesting things like this,Now i realized the importance of blogs …{Mozilla} U people are doing extremely well we are here to support you on every step u take …I love U
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Mozilla is cool !But you konw what ,when i use it in vista, it have some bug!it make me a little bit crazy
Mozilla is cool !But you konw what ,when i use it in vista, it have some bug!it make me a little bit crazy
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.
[...] from the few hours I spent using it – I don’t think it delievers the right answer. Mozilla are also getting prepered, you know, just in case. Yep, that’s it, I can imagine it – 50 years from now I’ll be [...]
[...] to a recent post on the Mozilla Labs blog, they are working on adding social tools to Firefox — making it easy to share what [...]