Ed Brill

LotusUserGroup.org has announced its annual Lotusphere Comes to You Online series. This year you will be able to participate in seven sessions over the next 45 days, covering Messaging and Collaboration Strategy - March 20 Social Application Development - March 22 IBM Sametime - March 27 Social An...

Ryan Baxter is a developer on the Lotus Notes team and a contributor to IBM's efforts around Open Social 2.0. Earlier this week, he wrote a nice blog entry covering Notes and Open Social-based embedded experiences:One of the key uses of OpenSocial in Notes and Domino Social Edition and in Connection...

One of last week's announcements that I didn't quite get to on the blog was the plan to support Windows Phone with the upcoming release of Lotus Notes Traveler. Specifically, IBM called out the intention to support Nokia and HTC devices on Notes Traveler. Yes, this is a reversal from my previously-s...

For the first time, many of the Lotusphere sessions are available online, simultaneously with the conference. Better yet, they are still available this week :-) The opening general session can be viewed via http://ibm.co/w9vfSC (registration required). Beyond that, there is a ton of content on Li...

Lots more to write about Lotusphere 2012. Someone asked me yesterday where I had been all week; this was another year where I spent far more time in meeting rooms and back offices. One such activity was a real privilege -- on Wednesday morning, I hosted a press briefing/panel (yes a panel) highlight...

Today at Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta release of IBM Docs, formerly known as LotusLive Symphony. The beta release is available now on Greenhouse, http://greenhouse.lotus.com . IBM Docs is a completely cloud-based set of social document editors -- word processor, spreadsheet, presentation t...

This morning at Lotusphere in Orlando, IBM is announcing the evolution of messaging as a social business tool. During the Lotusphere opening general session, IBM announced and demonstrated Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition, the next feature release of the messaging and collaboration platform, al...

We have a lot of exciting news and announcements coming in the Lotusphere 2012 keynote in just about 10 hours. Of the day's highlights, my team has been working on at least four of the announcements. My goal in blogging them tomorrow is not to be first; it is to have a place to discuss these announ...