SubscribeHow WordPress Prologue theme is good for iPhone, Data Portability, and Enterprises
Since you can’t copy and paste text (yet) on iPhone (necessary for getting links into blog posts unless you want to type them by hand), I think the new Prologue theme released by WordPress is a great interface for iPhone blogging. Prologue’s interface clearly encourages short, Twitter-style updates.
Furthermore, with the growing awareness of the need for Data Portability, I’d like to use Prologue to keep my status updates on my own domain, and feed them to Twitter using RSS. This might even reduce the load that seems to cause the timeout errors I see multiple times a day from Twitterrific.
In related news, Chris Brogan suggests that Prologue is a step in the right direction toward a distributed, behind-the-firewall version of Twitter. He suggests that it may be very attractive for enterprises:
I think it’s a great implementation for short messages like status and the like inside the firewall. I think it’s a great step in that direction, and as WordPress has tons of other extensions and hacks, it’s the kind of thing you can imagine getting to the other missing parts of Twitter.
my 2 euro cents,
-Stefan"
Daniel says:
Feb 15th, 2008
Not really keeping to its original intention, but Prologue’s clean, white, iPhone friendly creative inspired me to build a Jakarta bar listings & review site:
http://www.jakartabar.com/
Innovative use of various WP comments plugins allow users to not just submit their reviews, but also ratings, as well as rate the reviews of other users.
Peter Hogenkamp says:
Mar 3rd, 2008
It’s funny that you’re saying Prologue is a great interface for the iPhone.
On my iPod touch, it only gives me a white screen. Same on my MacBook Pro on Safari 3.0.4. Same thing in IE 6.0. But it works fine in Firefox.
Any clue why this is?
Stewart Mader says:
Mar 3rd, 2008
Peter,
That’s odd – it works fine on my iPhone. Perhaps check the Prologue pages on Wordpress.org to see if anyone else is having issues…
Cheers,
Stewart