Mr. Ports: Lotus iNotes on the Nintendo Wii
September 25 2008
Many of you will remember Domino on the Xbox, now we have iNotes on the Wii...
There have been a few people talking about the new Lotus iNotes Ultralite and specifically how well it works on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Less comment has been made about the fact that iNotes Ultralite works very well in a browser on a PC. What I haven't seen mentioned so far was if iNotes Ultralite works on a Nintendo Wii. So I thought I would give it a go.It works!
Link: Mr. Ports: Lotus iNotes on the Nintendo Wii >
Post a Comment
nice! I have to try this tonight!
Totally off topic but has anyone seen Wii's new commercial on youtube. I blogged about it last night. From my Web experience, this is the best online ad ever.
{ Link }
Very cool!
IdeaJam also works on the Wii browser { Link }
i.ideajam.net
I'll have to try it out on my PS3 tonight...
I take that back. I've got a (semi)smartphone, notebook, etc.
I'm already to @#%@$# connected!
iNotes Ultralite also works on the Archos 605's Opera browser, although the Archos doesn't have the right fonts to substitute so it all comes out in TimesNewRoman.
We should do a version of iNotes specifically for the Wii with the ability to put Miis in the contact list ;o)
Ed, I need to add you as a Wii friend and get your Mii... I have Ports' Mii and it's unnervingly accurate.
Cool. Do you think maybe if I show this to my CFO he will change his mind about migrating from Notes to Outlook?
lol @ 7. A CFO wants to spend money on migrating to another system that does pretty much the same thing as the one he/she has now? hahahahaha, that's classic.
As Barbie used to say "Math is hard"
It would be interesting for to see what the Wii does with e-mail containing attachments in Ultralite mode.., because I've not yet seen this working in any browser at all.
And I'm not the only one if you read the IBM forums...
@7
Tell your CFO to stick to counting his beans, and leave the IT stuff to people with a clue.
I mean, he's made a financial case for this change, yes? A CFO ought to be able to that, one would think. Or maybe he thinks the US Govt will bail him out if he makes a loss on the deal.
Cheers,
- Mike
@8 & @10 - Omitting the complexities of this scenario, We have half of our users on each. the CFO wants us all on one and in his mind "everybody uses Microsoft", so that is what he wants. Period. Any financial case that I have to show it would be better to move to Notes is irrelevent. So we are spending hundreds of thousands so we can all have..email.
My point is that putting effort into marketing how DWA works on the Wii is absolutely irrelevent for the purposes of marketing to retain and expand customer base. All that does is humor us techies. CFO's make the decisions and end users influence CFO's to buy for the company what they use at home. And neither group cares if they can access their work email on their Wii.
@11 David, I think you are taking this blog way too seriously if you think that five minutes of Andy's spare time is indicative of the marketing effort required or adopted by IBM Corporation.
@7 - Your CFO makes these sorts of choices? Show him some TCO studies. We have a decent sized installation (approximately 2,000 users), and we have two people doing all our admin, and they spend approximately 1/4 of their time doing it. For years, we basically had no one administering it (I'd look in on it every once in a while). We have several M$ fans in our group, but all of them know we'd need much more staff to run Exchange (and none of them want to do it :)
Next, ask him what sort of return he will get on the investment he'll make in moving to Exchange.
Then point out that Domino still holds 40-50% (depending upon who you believe) of the enterprise messaging and collaboration market. So not EVERYONE is using M$.
Finally, if he really wants to run Outlook, set him up with DAMO and tell him to shut up.
As for being able to run it on a Wii, I think the larger point here is that iNotes ultralight will run on ANYTHING. Will Outlook Web Access do that?
@11, did you know there is a trial of iNotes (Notes webmail) available (free on-line trial) in the Lotus Greenhouse here: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/gh/lotusgreenhouserequests.nsf/MainDocumentSelf?openForm
This covers full feature iNotes, iNotes "lite" & "ultralite" modes. Plus Greenhouse offers emerging and new technologies such as Mashups, Connections (social software for the enterprise), Quickr and more.
For a comparison of Notes features from different channels (mobile, browser, desktop client) look here: { Link }
how about the PSP? Doesn't appear to work for some reason. Still using Webmail but can only read mail as the action buttons are missing!
it's amazing the kind of demand the Wii continues to have, it's been years and their still hard to come by
@12 - Ed, you're quite right. Pardon my venting. I don't have a Wii, my company is just another victim of Microsoft propaganda.