Tungle has put together a series of short videos on their new site "Calendar of the Future" site. IBM's Ed Brill makes serveral apperances in the video series:



Visit the "Calendar of the Future" site >


Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Innovators of Vancouver is an online documentary video series documenting leaders of vision, passion and action in Vancouver, Washington (not Vancouver, Canada) and surrounding areas.  Whether serving local communities in Southwest Washington, or running global corporations or non-profit organizations, the Innovators of Vancouver are using their creativity, energy and ambition to make the world a better place.

Chris Martin of Chris Martin Studios is the person behind this fantastic new initiative. Chris is also working with Elguji Software on some initiatives. Chris's company specializes in corporate story telling and other creative services.

On Twitter @innovatethecouv
On Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Innovators-of-Vancouver/132709536765431
On YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/innovatethecouv

Visit the Innovators of Vancouver website >


Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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

Last week Elguji posted a new position paper on their site entitled "The Social Software Platform You Already Own". This paper talks about how you can use your investment in Lotus software to being to integrate "social" into your existing suite of Notes and Domino apps that help run your business.

The paper includes a list of products, services and tools from the open source community and other ISVs and also highlights Elguji's IdeaJam, IQJam and LinkJam social software products.

Let’s face it – social networking is everywhere and the term “social” could easily be the buzzword of the year. Embedded in the television shows that we watch, the websites that we visit and the latest offerings of mobile devices, social media is infiltrating our daily lives. The business world is not exempt from the expansion of social media applications either and many companies are exploring, and in some cases scrambling to find, ways they can use and integrate the latest social networking tools and services in their existing business applications. What most IBM Lotus customers don’t realize is that they already own and use an ideal platform for social software solutions.

Some key takeaways from this excellent TED video:

• The last decade was the decade of establishing the social layer plumbing
• The next decade is building the game layer
• Appointment dynamics (think happy hour and FarmVille)
• Influence and status dynamics
• Communal dynamics
• Progressive dynamics

"Fixing Facebook Privacy Settings" is the new "Installing Windows Security Patches"

Andreas Schödl

Michael Sampson (@collabguy) tweeted about this video which I have seen before on SCRUM. For those of you who aren't familiar with SCRUM I suggest you have a watch of the video. Great stuff.




Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Comments (2) | Google it!

This morning I came across ToonPAINT a nice little app for the iPhone that creates pictures like these:







Check out ToonPAINT >


Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Now that I have some time on my hands I am putting together a list of social software applications, both commerical and open source that run on and integrate with Lotus Notes and Domino. I would appreciate if you could identify any apps that you know of that I can add to this list. More on what I will be using the list of apps for will be coming soon.

• IdeaJam (Elguji)
• IQJam (Elguji)
• LinkJam (Elguji)
• Squawk (Group)
• XPages Wiki (OpenNTF)
• Quickr (Lotus)
• Sametime (Lotus)
• Lotus Connections
• Software suite from Collaboration Matters (can't find info on this but I know it exisits)
• Wildfire (OpenNTF)
• Blogsphere (Declan Lynch)
• DominoBlog (IBM)
• Bildr (OpenNTF)
• Discussion NextGen (OpenNTF)

A nice interview with mobile developer Jeff Gilfelt where he talks about his ASBOromoter iPhone/Android application that was a top download in the iTunes App Store:




Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Jeff Haynie President and CEO of Appcelerator speaks to a class at Stanford University about all things Appcelerator. I was turned on to Appcelerator by mobile app developer Jeff Gilfelt and have enjoyed using it over the last few months. Have a watch at this incredibly powerful mobile app dev product.




Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Our friend Chris Martin proprietor of Chris Martin Studios has rolled out episode 1 of his new "Innovators of Vancouver" video series. In Episode 1 my friend Dale Chumbley who started the extremely successful "365 Things to do in Vancouver Washington" site and Facebook page.

Chris has done an amazing job in capturing the work that Dale does. Dale is a social media machine and from what I can tell knows more people in Vancouver, WA than I do.



Elguji is slated to appear in an episode of "Innovators of Vancouver" and is extremely excited to work with Chris on this.


Saturday, July 31st, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!