Would you want to have social networking features built into whatever browser you use? That's what Mozilla Labs is hoping as they are adding social networking features into the FireFox browser.
On their project page they describe the reason behind
"The desire is the same: 'hey, friend, go check out this neat thing and then let's talk about it!' "The goal of The Coop is to ease this interaction, and merge it with similar tools provided by a large number of popular web services." The design of The Coop will have boxes where a user's friend will "live". An avatar will represent the friends. Icons will display new content and the box will glow if a friend has sent new content to a user. Not everyone is excited about The Coop. In a forum post Jay wrote, "This looks enormously obnoxious. I will switch to IE if
Other criticism included this post from Justin Thorp who wrote," What's the value add to me as the user to recreate my social network within my browser? I don't get what this gives me that I don't already have with something like Facebook. Could this play with the Facebook API so we're not completely recreating the wheel?" For fans of social networking, The Coop will be a useful feature. For those that just want a functional browser, it will be a turn- off.
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