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Collections is a cross-platform personal content manager built for the age of cloud computing. It gives you access to everything you have stored in cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive and in web apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as your local files. As a universal finder for the cloud, Collections lets you bring together all of your most important digital content, helping you to regain control over your online presence. What would Apple's Finder look like if it were invented today, rather than in 1983? Collections is an Internet-age personal content manager, a fundamental reinvention of the file manager that lets you easily access and organize all of the digital content you have that's currently scattered across a dizzying array of cloud storage providers and web apps. It's a file system for the web.

Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has been placed on Parakey's potential to make tasks on the computer more intuitive for the average Joe. Parakey was acquired by Facebook on July 19, 2007. Sequoia Capital seeded Parakey's operations in early 2005.