Firefox Social Integration

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Firefox Social Integration
Stage	Definition
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Health	OK
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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Sheila Mooney
Lead engineer	Mike Hanson
Security lead	Michael Coats
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	Jennifer Boriss
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The Web has become inherently social. The browser is not yet playing a significant role in enabling the social experience. We are going to change that.

Just as we saw search become an integral tool for getting around on the Web and so integrated search touch points into the browser, so has social become an integral part of the Web experience, and that's driving the need for social touch points in the browser.

The first generation of integrating the social experience into Firefox will consist of four touch points.

1. Integration of persistent social notifications into the Firefox toolbar.
2. Integration of news feeds, tickers, buddy lists, etc., into a Firefox sidebar.
3. Integration of chat, voice, video, etc. into docked or floating window.
4. Integration of a share/recommend service in the Firefox toolbar.

With these touch points, users will be able to carry their social presence and tools with them, outside of confines of specific social websites. No longer will users need to be visiting a social provider to share or recommend something within that service, nor will they have to navigate the NASCAR-like mess of social widgets accompanying so much Web content. Users will be able to chat and get updates of various kinds from where ever they happen to be on the Web.

By integrating social into Firefox, Mozilla will put you, instead of any one website, at the center of your social experience.

2. Users & use cases

Users: Firefox users with accounts on social networks.

Use cases:

• A Twitter user is reading a compelling Wikipedia article and would like to share a link to that article with her Twitter followers. Because she's got the new Firefox that features social integration, it's as simple as clicking the share button.

• A Diaspora user is surfing the Web and doesn't want to miss any new posts from his friends back at Diaspora. Firefox has a convenient sidebar where Diaspora sends news updates so he never misses his friends' updates.

• A Google+ user wants to quickly open a chat without chasing down her buried Google+ tab in Firefox. She clicks her buddy's name in the Firefox social sidebar and it pops out a chat Window.

• A Facebook user, just about to hit the 1,000 friends mark doesn't want to miss that incoming friend request. Because he's got Firefox's new social features, he'll get a notification in his Firefox toolbar when any new friend requests, new messages, or notifications arrive.

3. Dependencies

This feature depends on:

1. The Social API back-end implementation
2. UR and UX work to test and design the experience for discovery and enabling social features, each of the 4 social touch points, disabling the social feature, and switching between social providers.
3. Labs and Firefox engineers to implement the front-end of the Social API
4. Social providers to offer up an Open Web Application Manifest - which contains the name, icon, and service data needed for the browser to communicate with the web property.

4. Requirements

• To manage a list of social services (discover, install, delete)
• To display to the user which social services they are currently signed in to
• To easily sign in and out of a service, and to switch which service the user is interacting with, or to switch off social interaction
• To recommend the current page to their friends on a network - either as a standalone URL or with a comment.
• To see which of a user's contacts are online
• To initiate real-time communication with a contact through chat, voice, or video
• To see updates from contacts and to be notified when new updates are available
• To receive, at the user's discretion, ambient or immediate notification when interesting events have occurred

Non-goals

Mixing and matching different parts from different social providers is a non-goal. Users must be able to switch between providers, but it is not required that users be able to display touch points from multiple providers simultaneously.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

The bulk of the functional spec is described at the Social API doc and the newsgroup post [groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/1e4048b16c7a6705/7e392549d34e6c62 Proposing some social features for Firefox]

6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

The initial implementation will be delivered as a bundled add-on. Eventually the Social API back-end and front-end will be built-in.

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=The Web has become inherently social. The browser is not yet playing a significant role in enabling the social experience. We are going to change that.

Just as we saw search become an integral tool for getting around on the Web and so integrated search touch points into the browser, so has social become an integral part of the Web experience, and that's driving the need for social touch points in the browser.

The first generation of integrating the social experience into Firefox will consist of four touch points.

1. Integration of persistent social notifications into the Firefox toolbar.
2. Integration of news feeds, tickers, buddy lists, etc., into a Firefox sidebar.
3. Integration of chat, voice, video, etc. into docked or floating window.
4. Integration of a share/recommend service in the Firefox toolbar.

With these touch points, users will be able to carry their social presence and tools with them, outside of confines of specific social websites. No longer will users need to be visiting a social provider to share or recommend something within that service, nor will they have to navigate the NASCAR-like mess of social widgets accompanying so much Web content. Users will be able to chat and get updates of various kinds from where ever they happen to be on the Web.

By integrating social into Firefox, Mozilla will put you, instead of any one website, at the center of your social experience. |Feature users and use cases=Users: Firefox users with accounts on social networks.

Use cases:

• A Twitter user is reading a compelling Wikipedia article and would like to share a link to that article with her Twitter followers. Because she's got the new Firefox that features social integration, it's as simple as clicking the share button.

• A Diaspora user is surfing the Web and doesn't want to miss any new posts from his friends back at Diaspora. Firefox has a convenient sidebar where Diaspora sends news updates so he never misses his friends' updates.

• A Google+ user wants to quickly open a chat without chasing down her buried Google+ tab in Firefox. She clicks her buddy's name in the Firefox social sidebar and it pops out a chat Window.

• A Facebook user, just about to hit the 1,000 friends mark doesn't want to miss that incoming friend request. Because he's got Firefox's new social features, he'll get a notification in his Firefox toolbar when any new friend requests, new messages, or notifications arrive.

|Feature dependencies=This feature depends on:

1. The Social API back-end implementation
2. UR and UX work to test and design the experience for discovery and enabling social features, each of the 4 social touch points, disabling the social feature, and switching between social providers.
3. Labs and Firefox engineers to implement the front-end of the Social API
4. Social providers to offer up an Open Web Application Manifest - which contains the name, icon, and service data needed for the browser to communicate with the web property.

|Feature requirements=* To manage a list of social services (discover, install, delete)

• To display to the user which social services they are currently signed in to
• To easily sign in and out of a service, and to switch which service the user is interacting with, or to switch off social interaction
• To recommend the current page to their friends on a network - either as a standalone URL or with a comment.
• To see which of a user's contacts are online
• To initiate real-time communication with a contact through chat, voice, or video
• To see updates from contacts and to be notified when new updates are available
• To receive, at the user's discretion, ambient or immediate notification when interesting events have occurred

|Feature non-goals=Mixing and matching different parts from different social providers is a non-goal. Users must be able to switch between providers, but it is not required that users be able to display touch points from multiple providers simultaneously. |Feature functional spec=The bulk of the functional spec is described at the Social API doc and the newsgroup post [groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/1e4048b16c7a6705/7e392549d34e6c62 Proposing some social features for Firefox] |Feature ux design=` |Feature implementation plan=The initial implementation will be delivered as a bundled add-on. Eventually the Social API back-end and front-end will be built-in. |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	This feature falls primarily in the Connect space
Roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Secondary roadmap	Sharing
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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