Author Archives: iamronen

Proactive design panel on the front end

By iamronen | Published: February 15, 2012
As a followup to my email to Ian – I came across this post with a “proactive design panel on the front end”. It’s nice to know I’m not living in my own imaginary bubble “This further raises the question, what else should we bring to the front to enable a better visual [...]
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Email to Ian Stewart

By iamronen | Published: February 7, 2012
I left a comment on this post by Ian Stewart. The comment was: “this sounds nice but superficial … I would wish for something deeper and more substantial …” Ian did not approve the comment but did write me to ask what I meant. I wrote him a lengthy email. He replied and said I should post [...]
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WallPress – A WordPress Alternative to Facebook?

By iamronen | Published: January 19, 2012
Andreea, my life partner, uses Facebook. It has played an undeniable role in her developing an outreach and real-life, professional social network here in Romania. It is used to support her WordPress powered website. Yet I continue to be disturbed by the fact this is happening on Facebook. Every word she types into their systems [...]
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Priority Inbox

By iamronen | Published: August 31, 2010
Google has finally delivered a long-time missing feature from email – prioritizing the inbox. But Google can only go so far because all it has to learn from is email communication. For example, I would want prioritization on my Twitter feed and RSS reader as well – bu Google cannot access/control those. If my communication [...]
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Email without an Inbox

By iamronen | Published: August 31, 2010
A great usage scenario is describes in this product idea – I want to send an email without the distraction of incoming information. The same could be said for any communication service – I want to send a twitter update without witnessing the incoming live-stream.
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Family Contact Information

By iamronen | Published: August 31, 2010
Definitely a noteworthy context that ontekusuto can cover as described by Fred Wilson: I want a web service that I can enter all of our family’s friends and other relationships into.
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Facebook Obliterating Privacy

By iamronen | Published: June 8, 2010
Body language professionals tell you to look for tell-tale signs. For example, when you are engaged in an ad-hoc corridor conversation at work – look at the feet of the person you are talking to. If they are pointing at you he is with you, if they are pointing somewhere else – he isn’t. When you [...]
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A Better Moral Order for the Internet

By iamronen | Published: May 14, 2010
Mark and I have continued our Diaspora-inspired conversation ( myself – mark ) via email. The conversation now seems to be centered around whether or not the web needs to be centralized or decentralized. I would like to try to take apart and reframe the question. The Internet is a meeting place between people and software [...]
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Eben Moglen – Freedom in The Cloud

By iamronen | Published: May 13, 2010
This deserved a separate post. Thank you again to the guys at Diaspora. “Mark Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record, he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed ‘friday night’, that is ‘everybody needs to get laid’, and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the [...]
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Freedom

By iamronen | Published: May 13, 2010
This morning I intended to write a post inspired by an interaction on Mark’s post. When I sat down at the computer I saw this Twitter update from Fred Wilson – which led to an inspiring new project called Diaspora – which also affected my writing. Thank you to Mark, Fred and the guys at [...]
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