Lotusphere Nostalgia Part 3

Ok, here is another awesome video during the closing session of LS 2010. This is done by a gentleman named DJ Steve Porter who is renowned music director, remixer and it seems one of this video Slap Chop Infomercial is viewed more than 11 million times.. Wow.

Well, we also need to congratulate the LS team for bringing in such great people and advertise the products. These sort of things will definitely appeal in general public. Look how people are enjoying themselves and some people i could recognize are Andrew Pollack, Nathan Freeman, and Mikkel besides Bob Picciano and Alistair Rennie..

Hmm, Let's see what is in store for Lotusphere 2011.

Lotusphere Nostalgia Part 2

Key Highlights from LS 2010

IBM Project Vulcan - To me this is the single most important thing from LS 2010 even when there are other things like LotusLive, Lotus Notes Traveler etc.

Because it is going to appeal to both end users and as well developers and business partners. For the end users b'cos they are going to have an user interface which is very much like any other social software they use daily eg: Facebook

And for the developers and business partners IBM is going to release a common set of API's which will talk across the Lotus portfolio starting from Notes / Domino until Lotus Connections, Lotus Live and IBM WebSphere Portal. But it is not going to happen in the next release of Lotus Notes and Domino but will happen over a period of time. That's why Project Vulcan is not a code name like 'Hannover" ( code name for Lotus Notes 8) but is a blue print for the IBM future collaboration strategy.

That being said Vulcan will include all the latest technologies to achieve this vision namely HTML5, XPages,CSS3, Web Services and may possibly include WebKit etc. Of course it has to b'cos what IBM is trying to achieve is to make the entire concept of collaboration as "loosely coupled services" which can then applied across the organisation. To make that happen Lotus has to include all the Open standards ( it is already doing though) and only then if the developer wants to go integrate Lotus Notes with any of the services available in the  Internet he / she will be able to do so. 

Some questions comes to my mind though, while in the process of making it slimmer, will IBM cut down some of the features Lotus Notes has already got but for now we don't have to worry b'cos LS 2011 will answer those and shed additional light.

The purpose of this writing is only to highlight some of the key things about LS 2010 in my eyes b'cos i have caught up with LS fever now :) We may come back here again before I close down Lotusphere Nostalgia...

Thanks for reading this and stay good.. Cheers

Lotusphere Nostalgia

With only 36 days left for Lotusphere 2011, i started browsing through the contents that are available from the past Lotusphere events. I will be including some of the interesting things for the next few days. Already caught up with the Lotusphere fever :)

Now, here is a video which is considered as one of the best in the opening general session of Lotusphere.