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Introducing the Coop, a new experiment from the folks at Mozilla in content sharing.  This article from InformationWeek gives a nice overview:

Mozilla Labs Adds Social Networking Features To Firefox — Web Browsers — InformationWeek

You’ll also want to go to the source — here’s the original blog post explaining the inspiration for the app:

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Keep track of your friends with The Coop

And I love the concept.  In a regular social context the use for sharing “jokes, cute pictures, and news stories” certainly sounds attractive.  But how about the use in an educational context, where you might have a class sharing relevant web sites, web searches, and other learning content.   The project blog has some wireframes which help show what they are thinking.  This all reminds me a little of the Personal Learning Environment idea.

So I’ve downloaded the Coop Firefox plugin and set up a FaceBook account — now all I need is some friends.  I listed as Randall Rode at Yale, so get yourself set in Facebook and add me as a friend.  I’d love to see how this Coop thing works, but you need friends who want to share with you. 

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