IBM launched a new worlwide marketing campaign to get more visibility for our beloved brand!

Check out www.lotusknows.com to discover the world of IBM Lotus!

I have to warn you, once you’re a Lotus addict, there is no way back

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“Keeping track of all your ‘virtual’ contacts on the various networks will is not easy, especially as the quantity of social networks you are registered to increased, and your global network increases as well. Locating a user you wish to collaborate with, can become tedious and subtract from the effectiveness of the networks and the effectiveness for you to be able to locate a specific user.

ViCo for Lotus Notes can help with this by importing all of your contacts from all supported social networks and providing them in a single point of access, a Lotus Notes database, allowing sorting and searching and categorising of the documents by network. The product also allows you to add specific contacts onto your Personal Address Book in Lotus Notes, making those contacts available in type-ahead searches from within the Lotus Notes mail file. The application also allows automatic synchronisation of changes of contact information direct to the Personal Address Book”

Unfortunately this product is not for free (approx. 49 euro/license). See this the Notes-Solutions website. Maybe a free version should be made for personal use as a lot of companies still do not see the benefit of social networks

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If you are using mSuite and are using the 2007 edition of the CommonTime Evaluation Certificate, you need to take prompt action to avoid loss of service. Please follow the instructions in the PDF document.

CertificateExpiry2008.pdf

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In my experience it’s almost always correct, it learns fast and I save a lot of time because I no longer longer have to drag/drop, ‘move to folder’, … I can just click the correct folder. This is how it looks like in my mail file:

You can find more information here.

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1. Composite applications

I’ve been playing around with this and it’s still quite a challenge. Some small bugs, but the idea is promising. You can find     more  information here.

2. General new features (the ones I like the most)

->@CopySelectedAsTable
->@CalendarFormat
->Show image as thumbnail in RTLite field
->Agent can be triggered on server start
->Possible to defer Index Creation (e.g. to the time a user sort a column)
->Prevent Simple Search when db is not full text indexed

3. LotusScript

->NotesDirectory(Navigator) class
->view event ‘onSelect’ (mainly needed when building Composite Apps)

4. Web Development

->$$HtmlTagAttributes
->$$HtmlOptions (possible per field)
->readViewEntries (as JSON)

5. Web Services consuming

->it’s built in so you don’t need any additional jar-files deployed on the client

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is-phone is an integrated IP softphone that uses SIP 2.0 (Session Initiation Protocol). is-sphone is developed by iscoord ag. is-phone connects to Asterisk (ADDIX, Digium, Fonality), SIP Express Router for example VocalTec and SIP carriers/providers as well as IP PBXs from 3Com, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Nortel or Siemens.

Current versions for Windows OS (XP SP2, Vista):
- is-phone for IBM Lotus Notes 6/7/8
- is-phone for IBM Lotus Sametime
- is-phone Java SDK based on Eclipse

We are using this solution internally and it works excellent.  We use logitech headsets and some of us use also Snom370 hardware phones.  The next step is to use the Java SDK to integrate the solution with our GEDYS 7 CRM solution.

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Registration for Lotusphere 2008 is now possible.

The cost is $1,895 through November 2, 2007. Price jumps to $2,095 after that.
If Belgian users, business partner or IBM employees will go to Lotusphere, please let me know maybe we can have a Belgian user meeting or so at Lotusphere.
Please let me know and we arrange something

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The release will be by electronic means only, with the physical distribution and documentation slated for September 21.

The release is based on the Eclipse open-source software framework and is built around a new platform called Expeditor. Expeditor enables developers to create Eclipse-based code for use within the client that can function on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Version 8 offers a modern Web-like look and feel, with a sidebar that displays contacts, the day at a glance, RSS and Atom feeds. Other features include the ability to export documents to PDF, multidirectory integration enhancements, mail recall and new cluster replication technology.

The standard word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications are included, which all support the OpenDocument format. Within the applications, there will be in-line spell-checking and numerous changes to mail, calendar and contact management, according to IBM.

For more information please check the lotus website

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