[Yanel-dev] Re: [Yanel-usage] Yanel-Box

[Michael Wechner]

Evaldas Taroza wrote:
> I think the idea to use XMPP, or maybe PubSubHubub. The content will 
> probably be "files" and the activity stream, if this stream can then 
> be then represented as social feed then it's great, e.g. plugged to 
> Facebook. 
>
> However, dropbox is for sharing/backuping files accross computers, 
> it's not really about publishing content to the Web (although they 
> have some sort of picture gallery for folders where there are only 
> pictures). Not sure if the same usecase applies for a WCMS. For 
> bridging the gap between desktop and Web an AIR editor could be a 
> better choice.

any specific example you like best?

Thanks

Michael


>
> Evaldas 
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Michael Wechner 
> <michael.wechner at wyona.com <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     It recently came to me that it would be great to have something like
>     "dropbox" for Yanel, which
>     means on your desktop you would have a folder (e.g. named
>     "yanelbox") to
>     which you can drag and drop
>     files, create sub-folders, edit files, etc.
>
>     All of these actions would be synchronized with your Yanel CMS server
>     and made available within
>     your personal web-dashboard. From within your web-dashboard you could
>     associate this content
>     with any other part of your website, e.g. publish an OOo document as a
>     regular webpage under
>     a specific URL.
>
>     There seems to be some efforts re Open Source "dropbox" solutions,
>     e.g.
>
>     http://www.sparkleshare.org/
>
>     and also some "scripted" solutions
>
>     http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/
>
>     whereas it seems to me it would nice to re-use WebDAV (or some
>     "automatic" SVN) which would
>     make it even less "proprietary" and also open it up to other CMS
>     solutions.
>
>     The whole thing is really about bridging the gap between the
>     desktop and
>     the Web-CMS, which
>     is still a huge problem in particular for people not familiar with
>     Web-based CMS and it would make
>     life a little bit easier.
>
>     WDYT?
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Michael
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