Author Archives: iamronen

Dave Winer On Dropbox

By iamronen | Published: May 11, 2010
Dave again brings up Dropox – which I agree is a great service. I also agree there should be an open-source alternative to it… BUT I believe that what is needed is not an open-source technology – since that would only be available for technically-proficient end-users. What we need is another Dropbox open-source PRODUCT – something [...]
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Email Bankruptcy

By iamronen | Published: May 11, 2010
Fred Wilson provides insight into his email habits and wishes … and again Fred provides another great example for what I call contexts… this time the context is “priorioty email contacts” … this is such a simple thing to implement … and a killer feature for a new and alternative messaging system.
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Contexts

By iamronen | Published: April 23, 2010
Fred Wilson’s post about Facebooks new Social Graph … does a great job of explaining what I mean by contexts… Some things I want to share with everyone… Some things I want to share with family… Some things I want to share with work associates… Some things I want to share with no one… Right now startup companies and their [...]
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WordPress Operating System

By iamronen | Published: March 24, 2010
Spending time with my thoughts on Ontekusuto has brough WordPress into a new light, for me at least. Is WordPress a blogging system or a CMS? As the WordPress core matures together with it’s plugin ecosystem it’s versatility and potential increases, especially in the hands of creative designers & developers. At it’s heart WordPress has a [...]
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WordPress Menu Management

By iamronen | Published: January 29, 2010
This is a draft of a core idea on a tool for configuring and managing a WordPress navigation menu. My understanding is that this is a typical menu of either pages or categories that appears in the (or just below) header area. Following is a quote of the challenge as presented by Jane Wells: Challenge #2: [...]
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XEMail

By iamronen | Published: December 2, 2009
The challenge presented by Raindrop to improve the aggregation/presentation of emails is, I feel, both great and wrong. Great because it is rooted in the current status of email communications. Wrong because it is limiting itself to the confines of what email is, when I believe it should be looking into what email can be. [...]
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Contact Information

By iamronen | Published: November 30, 2009
Following is a sample contact information view that includes an application of the relationship proximity idea. The context is viewing a single email message. The header contains information about the sender – including name/description and other personal online resources. This information cab be extracted from an OpenID or aggregated from other available resources. Then there is an [...]
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WordPress Microposts

By iamronen | Published: November 25, 2009
I feel like I’m in a conversation with Dave Winer tonight… this time he’s calling out to twitter client application to bypass Twitter itself (if  you’re not in the tech-loop – then yes it is possible and and there are already two working technologies that do this). A while back I described an RSS reader that [...]
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Creating a Single Feed

By iamronen | Published: November 25, 2009
Dave Winer writes about creating a single feed of all his on-line writing. I definitely support this – but I see it happening another way – actually the other way around. Dave is actually “collecting a single feed” – which actually embraces something that is wrong to start with. There shouldn’t be any need to [...]
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Rules

By iamronen | Published: November 22, 2009
Twitter suspends an account for only sending links and violating Twitter Rules
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