About a year and a half ago I thought what if there was an app that simply showed me a photo on my phone along with "like" or "dislike" buttons. Pressing one or the other would bring up another photo. Then another and another endlessly. It would be highly addictive and useful as potentially millions would register their reaction to everything from politicians, to food, books, colors… anything one could imagine.
That idea grew into iroon.com -- a place to measure what we Iranians think and feel on a wide variety of people, things, topics and… Raw information that would allow us to better understand ourselves and provide a basis for possible change in thinking and habits.
On the one hand the site is equipped with tools we are already familiar with (blogs, surveys, photos, links…). They are easy to use and neatly organized. But what makes iroon.com unique and revolutionary is its National Pulse (Nabz e Melli) mood meter and the Dis-Like (Ah o Bah) carousel.
Over time, the National Pulse histogram will show our general mood and, potentially, the reasons for it. For instance if there are wide swings on certain periods, we can check the news and make educated guesses on how it has impacted our feelings. We will understand, to a certain degree, what things can make us happy or unhappy.
My personal favorite, though, is the Dis-Like (Ah o Bah) carousel, which is the realization of my initial thoughts on registering quick opinions on everyone and everything, starting with people and things we are most familiar with. Every time you click on the like or dislike button, it will move on to a new photo, and so on until there are none left. We will put in several fresh photos every day so when you come back the next day you will see something you have not voted on. Eventually we will have a huge archive of what Iranians like or dislike.
iroon.com is only a few days old. It still needs lots of work and lots of room to grow. But I'm extremely happy with what our technical team has achieved. I wish I could give you their names. All I can say is thanks a million and dastetoon dard nakoneh. YOU have made history :)
Actually the Like Dislike feature was a main element of Vice.com with their Do and Don't photo captioning. Their idea was, would you DO the person in the photo or Don't DO them. Understandably we aren't yet evolved enough to take this kind of scrutiny, so yours is the next best thing to Vice's Do and Don't. In other words, I'll take it. For now. In regards to your "team", tell them to get over themselves. Unless they are doing this from inside Iran. If that is the case, tell them to overthrow the government already. For we are 100% behind them. No, I mean like 100% actually really far far behind them. We'll come in as soon as the coast is clear. And then we'll be all like, "Did you see how I stood up to them?", and take credit for everything. And then they'll be like, "Dude you owned him!" And then we'll be like, "You know I totally owned him!" Ok. Talk to you later. I have to take my medication now. The key to Ridalin is taking it with Sekanjebin. The effect is like 10 times more. Ok. Bye.
Hello Mr. J, I'm finding my way around the new site, feels like a convertible and am taking it for a test drive with the top down. Let the fresh air blow...... By the way, "Nothing is Sacred" still? :)
Hi JJ, Congratulations on the launch!
Thanks Foaad!
Yes Khar Jan... Nothing is Sacred, whether we like it or not, whether we believe or not :)
JJJ I wrote a belog and millions (dozens :-) have joined ir.com since! I love the comment control and feel like a civilized man! Is there a "Recent Comment" area where we can see the latest comments as they're submitted? Also, I can't add a line to my comment and if I hit "Enter" my comment gets posted. Continuous paragraphs are hard to read and often ignored.
There is no recent comment section. You can edit your comment in the first ten minutes when you post it.
That's no good. This way I can't follow the pulse of the community! Unlike a forest where when a tree falls no one hears, I'd like to hear if a tree falls in this forest! I may want to add my view to his/her comment, but won't know it if I don't see it!
Hopefully there will be a new editor that allows line breaks and other fonts. As it is, line breaks is not supported. And I am with Esfand regarding an easy way of checking for updates.
How come we can see who gives us thumbs up but not who honors us with thumbs down?
We will soon add a section for latest comments.
The reason why thumbs down is anonymous is to make people comfortable in using it. Many would not put thumbs down on posts submitted by their friends if their name is visible.
Makes sense. Typical Irani "roo dar veyesti"
Glad to see you're back! Looks like you have taken some of the recommendations and ideas from the I.com surveys and implemented them here. Should be good.
The dislike feature is great. I believe I was one of the supporters of that feature before. :-)
CoP you can delete your own duplicate comment, if you want. Click on the x on right hand side of the comment.