Earlier this week Mozilla Labs announced updates to two of its recent projects – Snowl and Ubiquity. Both projects have demonstrated impressive momentum and are being well received in both the Mozilla community and the press.

Snowl 0.2, a messaging-in-the-browser experiment, builds on the first release with an updated river view, a new stream view for keeping track of messages in a sidebar while you do other things, the ability to send tweets, and support for multiple Twitter accounts. Sean Michael Kerner from Internet News notes, “For Mozilla, a close embrace of Web 2.0 with Snowl may have an impact beyond simply making it easier for users to access Twitter and similar services: It may actually represent the future of the popular browser.”

Highlights of Snowl in the news include Internet News, ReadWriteWeb, WIRED, ComputerWorldUK.

On Wednesday, Mozilla Labs released Ubiquity 0.1.5. With it, Ubiquity gains a sleeker look, a smarter core and the ability to be skinned – anyone who knows how to write standards-complaint CSS can now create and share a custom Ubiquity skin. Scott Gilbertson from WIRED writes, “Think of Ubiquity as an on-the-fly mashup creator, taking information and reorganizing it to make it more useful.”

Ubiquity was featured in InformationWeek, WIRED, Internet News, and Lifehacker.

Yesterday we announced Geode, an experimental add-on designed to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 right now, ahead of the planned implementation of geolocation in Firefox 3.1. Future versions of Firefox (and Fennec) will support the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location.

As of this morning there were more than 50 total articles posted on Geode, with the majority of the coverage in the technology, consumer technology press and blogsphere. Coverage has been primarily neutral with many reporters comparing Geode to Yahoo!s Fire Eagle and Google Gears.

We accompanied this announcement with a few use cases to illustrate the benefits of the technology, which helped provide a more thorough understanding of Geode as everyone was able to see the immediate benefit, making the exploration of the technology very “real”.  However, we saw some confusion about whether geolocation would make it into Firefox 3.1 or Fennec, and difficulty understanding that when the beta comes out next week, users and developers could experiment with geolocation in that result.

Some highlights from the coverage include CNet, PC Magazine, Mashable, and New England Cable News.