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OAuth support in Raindrop
Raindrop has always been mindful of security and privacy issues, and even though we have written about this before, we have required your password to access your email and twitter accounts. We are happy to report that things have changed. A major impediment to working without your password has been accessing your email. While twitter [...]
Raindrop looking at 2010
It’s a new year and the Raindrop team is looking forward, deciding what we want to become in this 2010. We successfully unmasked ourselves and launched a project driven by innovation to change what has become a stale world of messaging. I don’t want to repeat anything that avid readers have already seen so here [...]
Dynamic dependencies in the raindrop data-model
A brief introduction to ‘dynamic dependencies’ in raindrop
Raindrop End of Year Update 2009
2009 has been an exciting year for us. We introduced Raindrop, then immediately started to improve it using open design and open source practices. Since launching, we started a server-side API, and converted the Inflow experiment to a third design iteration. The basic design is really firming up now. We have set the basic structure, [...]
The Raindrop API
Introducing the Raindrop REST API.
The Skinny on Raindrop’s Mailing List Extensions
Raindrop is an exploration of messaging innovation that strives to intelligently assist people in managing their flood of incoming messages. And mailing lists are a common source of messages you need to manage. So, with assistance from the Raindrop hackers, I wrote extensions that make it easier to deal with messages from mailing lists. Read [...]
Introducing Raindrop
Today we’re introducing Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences. We hope to lead and spur the development of extensible applications that help users easily and enjoyably manage their conversations, notifications, and messages [...]
