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One more Raindrop/CouchDB video--this app is really showing the power and benefits of using a schemaless database. Perfect fit for something like Raindrop.

Follow-up to the previous Raindrop/CouchDB video--this shows how Raindrop uses CouchDB. Nice to see an increasing number of real-world uses of CouchDB out in the wild.

A friend of mine pointed out that Mozilla Raindrop is using CouchDB for persistence, and a member of the Raindrop team produced a really nice CouchDB intro video. There's another video about how Raindrop uses CouchDB--I'll post that one as well.

Mozilla tries to bring all forms of web-based communication (flickr, facebook, twitter, ...) together with email and tries to bring sense and usability to it. The 0.1 doesn't look like a big leap yet, but some of the design principles do make a lot of sense.

However, since they target for a web-based solution, it may again be one of those great tools you'd like to have, but being a corporate citizen, there isn't any way to make it poll your company mail account - which makes it a no-go for many.

What’s important to remember in light of the launch of Mozilla’s Raindrop, which the company calls an “open experiment in web messaging,” is that for many users, email is broken. Inboxes are flooded with useless information as botnets tighten their grip on the broadband infrastructure, alternative ways to send and view messages are proliferating, and it’s just difficult to stay on top of missives that matter.

Raindrop is a new kind of message manager, capable of sifting and sorting messages in many ways. From its open-source core to the very problem it tries to solve — frustration over email glut — it will be important to many users.

Here are four reasons why Mozilla’s Raindrop Matters: gigaom.com