Have you heard that there is going to be
a really cool XPages Extensibility API in Notes/Domino 8.5.2? Today
we interviewed Phillipe Riand and Jim Quill from the IBM XPages team where
we talked about:
- What is the XPages Extensability API?
- How to get started using the API
- Where
to find the XPages Extensability API documentation
(on the wiki of course!)
- How to use the API
- Does the API support both Notes client
and Domino XPages apps?
- What's coming in the future with Notes/Domino
8.5.3 and do we dare say Notes 9
- and much more
Many
thanks to IBM's Paul
Hannan for helping us put
this podcast together.
The show is 32.5mb and runs 33:47 minutes.
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On this episode of the podcast we spoke
with IBM's Chris
Blatnick about:
- LotusLive Connections
- LotusLive Engage
- LotusLive Notes
- LotusLive iNotes
- Why customers are asking about "the
cloud"
- The "hybrid" strategy
- and much more...
Sit
back and enjoy Episode 114 which runs 39:40.
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In this episode Julian and Bruce talk with
Joyce Davis, Community and Program Manager - IBM Lotus Software and Amanda
Bauman,
We talk about:
- What Joyce and Amanda do at IBM
- What is the Lotus Technical Information
and Education community?
- Ways people can participate in the community
- Benefits to contributing to the wikis
- Lotusphere 2010 - what the team
did, how information was captured and presented
- Innovating in the area of information
development and delivery
- Redbooks
- Plans for 2010
- How to contact Joyce and Amanda
- and much more...
The
show is 28.1 mb and runs 30:35 minutes.
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In Episode 105 we Interviewed IBM's Mary
Beth Raven and Julie
Forgo from the User Experience
or "UX" team.
We talk about:
- What is a "UX person" and
what do they do?
- The UX Lab at Lotusphere 2010
- Designing with "personas"
and why it's important to software design and creating great user experiences
- Group usability
- How users can influence software design
- Learn the secret code word for "user"
- Community based information dissemination
and gathering.
- Learn how the UX team learns from users
- and much, much more...
Please
check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions
or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com.
STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo"
at http://tipsintwo.com.
Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere
2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.
The show is 41.3mb and runs 45:02 minutes.
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Note: This podcast contains additional
information about Global Business Excellence Forum that was also covered
in Episode 101. This show has been produced specifically for the
people who may be considering attending the "Global Business Excellence
Forum".
This short episode of the podcast covers
the brand new "Global
Business Excellence Forum"
being held for the first time this year at Lotusphere 2010. Learn more
about this exciting new event and all registered Lotusphere 2010 attendees
can also attend this special event.
The podcast is 6.8mb and runs 7:17 minutes.
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Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who
will be attending Lotusphere?
If you are you should really consider attending Business Development
Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Channel and Industry.
In this podcast Tim and Bruce talk about what's in store for BDD
at Lotusphere 2010 including the new Global
Business Excellence Forum and
much more.
One point to mention that was not covered in the podcast is that the BDD
OGS will take place in the same Dolphin rooms as the Lotusphere OGS.
The podcast is 15.5mb and runs 16:48 minutes.
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IBM's Alistair Rennie, Vice President of
Development and Technical Support and Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of
Messaging and Collaboration Technology Business Executive talk with Bruce
and Julian about:
- The Lotus Knows IdeaJam
- How the ideas from the jam fit with
Lotus product visions and plans
- More on the Lotus Knows initiative and
why the initiative was started now
- How Lotus Knows ties in with IBM's Smarter
Planet initiative
- How you can participate and help with
these initiatives
- Plans for Lotusphere 2010
- and much more
The
Lotus Knows Video Blitz
Lotus invites you to create short videos on how you know Lotus. The videos
should showcase specific capabilities that demonstrate how end users know
Lotus. Be creative, Be original, Be specific. The Video Blitz will be held
on www.doyouknowlotus.com
starting August 28th. Also, to help provide inspiration for the Video Blitz,
the Lotus Knows IdeaJam will be available for the next 30 days for you
to review the ideas this community has brought forward. Please pass the
word and encourage your network to participate!
This podcast was brought to you by Conxsys's
nsfRewind.
The show is 27mb and runs for 29:43.
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This evening, Julian Robichaux and Bruce
Elgort met up with productivity specialist, Eric Mack (Notes on Productivity),
and IBMer Chris Blatnick (Interface Matters)to discuss a variety
of topics, including:
This episode runs 49:51
and is 45.7mb (128kbs).
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Paul Mooney, Julian and Bruce spend 20
minutes talking with Shawne Robinson from IBM about all of the new features
in Notes Traveler and iNotes Ultralite that recently ship with version
8.5.
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Bruce and Julian had the opportunity to
talk to Ed
Brill (Worldwide Sales Manager
for Lotus Notes/Domino) and Dwight Morse (Lotus Notes Product Manager)
about changes and new features in the recent Notes
8.0.2 release. We also got
to discuss a few "future directions" sort of things. Talking
points included:
- Do we have any numbers yet on how many
companies have upgraded to Notes 8 so far? How about customer
references?
- Is Lotus comfortable with the 8.0.2
startup speed and smaller memory footprint, or will it continue to improve?
- What's the big deal about the new INI
parameter that controls whether the client opens in Basic or Standard mode?
- Are the Symphony editors in the Notes
8 Standard client simply "nice to have", or is IBM aggressively
pushing the Symphony product?
- Is there better integration coming between
Notes and Connections, especially as it relates to Activities?
- Can we confirm or deny William Shatner
as the opening session speaker at Lotusphere?
And
certainly, much much more. Also be sure to check out Dwight Morse speaking
about Notes 8 on the Ziff
Davis Innovations podcast.
This podcast was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam
and LinkJam
(idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino).
It is 16.2mb and runs 35:11 minutes.
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Adam
Gartenberg tells us about
all sorts of new Sametime goodies, including:
This podcast
was brought to you by Elguji Software the makers of IdeaJam.
It is 19.6mb and runs 42:37 minutes
at 64kps.
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At Lotusphere 2008 we had a few minutes
to sit down with Arthur Fontaine and Brian Reed from IBM where we talked
about Lotus
Protector which was announced
at the show. Somebody had their cell phone on during the recording
which caused some interference for which we apologize for.
This podcast was sponsored by Instant
Technologies. It is 8mb and
runs 17:26 minutes at 64kps.
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Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere"
Marcus tells us all about what to expect at Lotusphere
2008 -- only 2 months away!
She talks about things like:
- Attendance is up so much that they have
to split the opening session into 2 groups (just like old times).
- The all new "Lotus Salon"
(no, they won't style your hair). Check out the lotusphere.com
sidebar links for more info.
- Fan favorites are coming back: SpeedGeeking,
Jamfest, and more.
- Jamfest gets a new home -- no more tent!
- Get the real scoop on how the lunch
locations will work this time.
If
you haven't bought your tickets yet, get them now before prices go up in
January. There's even still a little room left for vendors on the showroom
floor, but not for long.
Thanks to Erica Topolski for getting this interview set up for us, and
Sandra Marcus for taking time out of her day for some questions. This podcast
is 18.8mb and runs 41:02 minutes at 64kps.
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Mac
Guidera, Senior IT Specialist
on the IBM consulting team, talks about the new (and soon to be released)
Lotus
Connections product, including:
- Tags and tagging
- Web 2.0-ish-ness
- The 5 "pillars" of Connections:
Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities
- Activities tie-ins to Lotus Notes 8
According
to the
Connections datasheet on the IBM site,
Connections will be available for GA electronic download on June 29th (same
day as Quickr,
and some Apple
thing), so hurry up and learn
about it.
If you want more information, listen to the Lotus
Collaboration Summit Online
teleconference (probably in replay as you read this), check out the Lotus
Greenhouse, or watch a Flash
demo. It's all good.
This podcast also features another new "Interface
Matters" segment with
Chris Blatnick. The whole kit and kaboodle is 27.6mb and runs 1:00:19 at
64kps.
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Julian and Bruce talked to Rob
Wunderlich -- Technology Evangelist
in the "Emerging Technology and Standards Evangelization" team
at IBM -- about things like:
- Mobile applications and Lotus Domino
- Web Services
- The importance of standards
- What it's like to be a Technology Evangelist
at IBM
- Redwings and mud pie
And
much more. Rob was a fun interview, and we all had a good chat.
Also in this podcast, another new "Interface
Matters" segment with
Chris Blatnick.
Episode 61 was sponsored by Collaboration
University.
The podcast is 21.8mb and runs 47:23 at 64kps.
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Mere days after Sametime 7.5.1 goes Gold,
Julian and Bruce were able to get a hold of Adam
Gartenberg (Offering Manager
for IBM Lotus Real-Time Collaboration) to talk about all the new things
in the Sametime client and server. And boy, are there a lot of new things,
including:
- Video (webcam) integration
- Tabbed chat (configurable and optional)
- Mac Client
- Linux servers (Red Hat and SUSE)
- Office and Outlook integration
- Offline status integrated with Notes
or Outlook calendar (i.e. -- if your calendar says you're in a meeting,
your Sametime status will be set to busy)
- Lots of administrator configuration
options for the client, set on the server
- Sametime
Plugin Catalog and the new
Sametime
Code Exchange
If you want
to find out more about Sametime 7.5.1, try out these links:
Also
in this podcast, Chris Blatnick's new "Interface
Matters" segment.
Episode 60 was sponsored by Collaboration
University.
The podcast is 29.5mb and runs 1:04:11 at 64kps.
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Andre Guirard -- the Project Lead for the
Domino Designer client -- takes some time out to talk to Bruce and Julian
about:
We'll probably do several shows
in the coming weeks about the new Notes 8 client, and this is a great one
to start off with. Andre knows what he's talking about.
The podcast is 15.3mb and runs 33:27 minutes at 64kps.
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Bruce and Julian finally got Thomas Gumz
on the podcast schedule. The interview has a LOT of densely packed information,
so listen closely. Subjects we covered include:
- The evolution of the Domino Administrator
Client (that Thomas leads the design for), including:
- how it went from an oversized dialog
in 4.6 to a full Windows and Web client today
- cool things you can do with the Web
client, like starting and stopping Windows services on the server
- reusable JavaScript components in the
notes\data\dfc\dfc100.nsf database (DFC = DOM Foundation Classes)
- "hacking" the Domino Admin
database code (for a cool example, see how Dovid Gross added
a custom server task for ACLHelp)
The DDM (Domino Domain Monitor) database
in R7 that Thomas also led the design for, with a quick discussion of "hacking"
that database to learn about tricks like rounded
table corners (a technique
that Ben Langhinrichs played
with
several
times)
or writing an
event-driven tabbed interface
Using a Domino server as an Eclipse
Update Site, with features like:
managing plugins and packages for Sametime
7.5 clients as well as the forthcoming Notes 8 client
using the UpdateSite.ntf template on
a Domino 7 server to manage Sametime 7.5 plugins right now (or,
at least, as soon as the Domino 8 beta is available and we can get the
template)
Notes replication allows you to easily
manage plugins for clients on local servers, instead of one big central
one
in the future, this may be how Notes
8 client updates are handled
Again, tons of good stuff in there.
Thanks Thomas!
The podcast is 21.2mb and runs 46:27 minutes at 64kps.
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Chris Miller, Julian and Bruce sit down
with David Brigida from IBM and Josh Schrager from VoiceRite
where we talk about something we never have discussed on the podcast -
unified communications and unified messaging.
We start out the show by defining what unified communications and unified
messaging are and then talk about the VoiceRite Client for Sametime 7.5.
We then learn how you never have to pick up the phone to check your
voice mail change greeting since you can do all of that from your Sametime
client. Whether you have an old analog or new Voice over IP PBX from any
where in the world you can see who's calling your voice mail, send an IM
message to Sametime which is spoken to the callers or even transfer the
call to a soft phone or cell phone.
Josh then tells us about VoiceRite's Name
Dialer for Domino which allows
you to have an automated receptionist for your company so that caller to
your company can say the name or department of anyone in your directory
and be automatically transferred to them.
You can also see a demonstration of both products at the VoiceRite pedestal
(number 621) at Lotusphere 2007 in the Product Showcase.
Episode 46 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 18mb and runs 38:15 minutes at 64kps.
Adam Gartenberg also blogs
about this podcast.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Sametime VoiceRite IBM Lotusphere2007
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We thought we give you a heads up of some
podcasts we have in the queue:
Did
we mention that we still have all of our podcast sponsorships open?
If you are interested drop us an email.
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Tonight we had a fun interview with Craig
Lordan and Tara Hall -- two of the honchos behind the developerWorks
Lotus site (the website formerly
known as notes.net). We chatted it up about things like:
Take
a break, take a listen.
The podcast is 28.1mb and runs 30:35
at 128kps.
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Bruce and Julian got a chance to interview
Mike Rhodin, IBM General Manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration
Software (and Lotusphere
MC). We asked him a wide range of questions, touching on topics like:
- What was the internal design process
for the Hannover/Notes 8 product? Was it UI-driven?
- How do I take advantage of the new Hannover
technologies in my old Lotus Notes applications?
- What about Ajax? And XForms? And Activity
Explorer? And the DB2 back-end data store? And the rest of the IBM software
line? How will the new Notes 8 client be able to take advantage of these
technologies?
- Will we be able to run the Hannover
client "on
a stick"?
- Who's the comedian for Lotusphere going
to be?
There was also a lot of
discussion around SOA and Lotus
Expeditor too, and a whole
lot more. Overall, a fantastic interview. Take a listen!
We also would like to thank Elana Fernandez
of the IBM Media Relations Team for making the interview with Mike possible.
The podcast is 20.5mb and runs 44:30 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Bruce and Julian have a nice chat with
Alan
Lepofsky (Competitive Marketing
Intelligence at IBM/Lotus) and Eric
Mack (eProductivity specialist
at ICA)
about the difficulty of helping co-workers and customers "get"
Lotus Notes. We talk about a variety of topics around this theme, including:
Episode
31 was sponsored (once again) by Collaboration
University.
The podcast is 27.6mb and runs 48:08 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Quickplace 8.0 is coming! Bruce and Julian
talk to Rob
Novak (president of SNAPPS)
and Satwik Seshasai (team lead for Quickplace
development at IBM) about what's coming in the new release, including:
- nifty new Ajax functionality and open
JavaScript libraries
- integration with Microsoft Office AND
OpenOffice
- integration with Activity
Explorer
- a teaser about the upcoming Collaboration
University
- and much more
Bruce
also tosses in a couple of quick interviews: one with Chad
Schelfhout about the OpenAudit
and QuickElementer
projects on OpenNTF, and another with John
Head regarding the Community
Samples Effort -- a push to
product competitive and open templates for Notes/Domino.
The audio during the interview with
Rob and Satwick is a bit choppy in places due to some problems Skype was
giving us. Sorry about that.
Episode 27 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.
The podcast is 22.67mb and runs 38:43 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Taking Notes episode 24 is an interview
with Rocky
Oliver, longtime LotusGeek
and recently pulled (back) into the ranks of IBM. Bruce, Julian, and Rocky
discussed topics such as:
- Lotus
Notes Access for SAP, and
Rocky's involvement on that project
- How that fits in with the larger Project
Harmony, which extends to
both Lotus Notes and Workplace
- Is it too early to start planning for
Lotusphere?
- Why did Rocky leave a successful independent
consulting practice to go to work for IBM, anyway?
Episode
24 was sponsored by Genii
Software.
All this and much, much more. See what you think!
The podcast is 19.4mb and runs 34:36
at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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In this Taking Notes podcast, Bruce and
Julian have a fantastic conversation with Adam Gartenberg -- IBM/Lotus
Offering Manager for Real-time and Team Collaboration -- regarding the
upcoming Sametime 7.5 client. We talked about far too many features and
details to list them all here in the show notes (you'll just have to listen
to the podcast ;-), but here are some of the topics we touched on:
- Why is Sametime 7.5 NOT "just another
chat client"?
- What are some of the reasons you'll
want to upgrade from older versions of Sametime?
- Discussion of the new role-based security
architecture
- The new Sametime plugin architecture,
some neat things you can do with it, and talk of a forthcoming online Sametime
Plugin Catalog
- Improvements in the Sametime Meeting
Center
- How will we need to upgrade? Clients
first? Servers first? All at once?
- Options available for telephony and
connectivity to other chat networks via the RTC Gateway
Adam
shared some great details with us, so make sure you listen to the whole
thing. Also, here are a few links related to what we discussed:
And of
course the OpenNTF update with John
Roling.
Episode 22 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.
The podcast is 25.6mb and runs 46:13 (yes a long podcast) at 64kps (variable
bit rate).
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On Thursday night Julian and Bruce had
a nice podside chat with Ed
Brill. Ed answers some of
our questions in addition to some of the ones submitted by our listeners
over the last week.
The podcast also includes segments by:
The podcast is 27.7mb and
runs 50:36 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Today we had the privilege (and good fortune)
to get an interview with Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Development
for Domino Products. He was extremely friendly and gave us some fantastic
information on things like:
- Sametime 7.5 features (including plugins!)
- Activity Explorer integration in Notes
- The difference between Hannover and
"Domino Next"
- New and improved Notes client on the
Mac
- Upcoming RSS/Atom feed integration in
Notes
- and much more...
Thanks
again to Kevin Cavanaugh for the great interview, and to Michael Shamrell
and Jenn Snyder for setting all this up for us in the first place. Download,
listen, and enjoy.
The podcast is 15.9mb and runs 33:28 at 64kps.
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