Hot on the heels of Mozilla Lab’s call for participation in exploring the future of the browser, and the experimental Weave service, comes Mozilla’s efforts to move messaging beyond email and to the types of communication now commonplace across social networks, blogs and services such as Twitter.

Mozilla’s Myk Melez describes Snowl as a browser extension that helps users ‘follow and participate in online discussions’ and track all your conversations across various networks, services, protocols and messaging types.

Snowl purportedly aggregates messages from email services, syndicated feeds, forums and social networks and seeks to rank or prioritize them in order of importance, by varying the interface used to browse them - alternating between a Google Reader style ‘river of news‘ and a more traditional email-like three pane view.

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