Here are a few more ideas and notions.  Some of these are brand new and some are retreads of my prior emails.  I fully appreciate that implementation is much different from imagination, but….

     1.   Add   simple web server functionality to be used in connection with html files on linked pogoplug devices.  I want to be able to access my hyperlinked files from my Pogoplugged devices using http: .  I need this, in particular, for my android phone which typically (with a few exceptions) does not allow access to local files on the phone itself.  Of course, the phone does permit internet access.

    1A.  Could a pogoplug provide a special kind of webserver?  I am thinking, somewhat hazily, about a system that while it uses the Internet circumvents it as well.  Sort of a “sub internet” that exists and runs under or parallel to the “old” Web through linked plugs across many different users and user owned devices?

     2.   Add a function which permits Word files to be hyperlinked.  Here, I am thinking of a very useful set of small programs which take non html files (i.e. Word files) to be linked together through a program generated menu system.  Very efficient to use.

     3.   How about some sort of much better file manager interface for files on Pogoplugged devices?  Remember X Tree? Lotus Magellan (my favorite!)?  How about an ability to create, store and use macros in connection with this (e.g. faster ways to sort, organize, transfer, locate files, filename changing)?

      4.   Better search capabilities.  I was surprised that Pogoplug searches connected devices at all.  However, this can be dramatically improved.  What kind of improvements? Partial word searches.  File extension searches.  Searches within search results.  Searches which reveal “most relevant” (or % of hits) results.  Advanced searches as in Google. 

     5.   Can programs be run from the Pogoplug web access page which would affect files on pogoplugged devices?  Obviously, they can, i.e. copy, upload, download, play movies, display pictures, etc.  Can you add further functionality to the Pogoplug in this regard?

     6.   Bookmarks for often used files within Pogoplug devices?  Start pages (i.e. files which automatically open) when the Pogoplug is first accessed by user?  All of these suggestions, when and if implemented, should be easy to change by the user.

     7.   Different user templates for the Pogoplug user page within the web browser.  Customizable templates.

    8.   How about a capability to link Pogoplug devices from and between totally different t users and their respective devices?  This would be by consent or, in some cases, users might want to wish to make their plugged devices open to the public.  What I am talking about here is actually sort of an alternate internet of local devices at homes, schools, offices, etc.  Think “peer-to-peer” but in different ways.  And, of course, these could all be linked –possibly—to the internet itself.

     9.  Private/public communication possibilities.  Sharing web cams etc.  Pogoplug conferencing over a private – or public – linked set of pogoplug devices.

    10.  Assuming security concerns could be satisfied, could unused drive space on USB devices, computers, smart phones, external hard drives, local servers be pogoplugged so that an “earthly cloud” could be utilized/rented just as web servers provide the customary cloud storage?

    11.  Better backup/upload/download capabilities:  With an easy fixed drive, these processes should be improved. 

   12.  I have to say that I hate the Pogoplug colors on the web interface page?  What is this fascination with the color pink?  How about using some vibrant and rich red, blue, green and white colors for deeper contrasts and for general aesthetic improvement?

Thanks--Phil