Category Archives: Raindrop UI

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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Raindrop Vision

By iamronen | Published: November 21, 2009
Assumptions The Internet will be a dominant infrastructure through which most personal messaging and communication will take place. Personal communication and computation devices will be constantly connected to the Internet. Personal communications and messaging will originate from both personal and public devices. Personal communications may be dependent on 3rd party services and mediums. Communication and messaging leads to the creating, [...]
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Raindrop Manifesto – Draft

By iamronen | Published: November 21, 2009
Adapted from the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto Messaging through the Internet is an integral part of modern life. Messaging through the Internet should inherit the qualities of previous communication technologies such as telephony, and of direct person-to-person communication. The nature of communication should be determined by the individual/s who are partaking in it. Messaging through the Internet [...]
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Raindrop, Email, Mine

By iamronen | Published: November 21, 2009
There have been numerous speculations about the prevalence of email, given all the other communications protocols/solutions available. The way I see it is that the Email Inbox is, for many people, the only completely private and controlled online presence. I would even suggest that many people (especially non-technical consumers) know this instinctually/subconsciously. The only other [...]
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On Contacts: Proximity & Intensity

By iamronen | Published: November 19, 2009
I gave some thought to the idea of how to approach organization of contacts in a way that can be useful both in it’s own and in other contexts. Most of the existing solutions I can think of either use common approaches such as alphabetical arrangement, some are more sensitized by incorporating recently/frequently used, or [...]
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Raindrop Contexts

By iamronen | Published: November 11, 2009
Folders, I believe, are an outdated and tech-oriented mechanism for creating order. They take up time and attention (they need to be created, organized…). Folders represent contexts – and contexts change over time. Effective folders require some kind of strategy – most people don’t have a strategy or know how to go about getting one [...]
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