Weave is currently in development in Mozilla's Lab effort for emerging technologies, with its initial 0.1 release providing a basic set of functionality.

Synchronizing bookmarks is hardly a new concept, with popular services such as del.icio.us, Google Browser Sync and Apple's .Mac services already established offerings.

The difference with Mozilla Weave is that its designers intend it to become something more than just a bookmark and history synchronization tool.

According to the Mozilla Labs blog post announcing the Weave effort, one of the goals of the project is to, "ensure that it is easy for people to set up their own services with freely available open standards-based tools."

Mozilla also expects the Weave effort to grow into a social effort, enabling a user's online hosted data to be shared and accessed by friends. The group also plans to build out tools and APIs so that developers can expand and utilize the platform.

Mozilla plans for Weave's next release to come in early 2008. The version is likely to include an API for third-party developers as well as user controls for sharing information.