Our seventh episode, recorded today (Friday 9 July 2010). A roundtable discussion of the latest news and topics of debate surrounding the Lotus brand.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke.

Guests

Kathy Brown (Twitter | Blog)

Chris Miller (Twitter | Blog | Company)

Ben Poole (Twitter | Blog | Company)

This podcast is 62MB and runs for 67 minutes at 128kps. Enjoy!

* Please note that all views expressed are the participants’ own and do not necessarily represent those of their employer(s).

Topics

IBM Named Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software

* Congratulations to Jeff Schick and all the team at Lotus – clearly Connections and Quickr are doing well

* Does it matter? To IBM/BPs/Customer?

* Should the PL community be more interested?

* IDC report link

The PlanetLotus effect

* Rickrolls, ASWs, paid-for blogging and much more

* Does it show the best side of the Lotus community

* Do you tell your customers/users about PlanetLotus?

OpenNTF in the news

* Great case study featuring DominoWiki

* IBM execs praise OpenNTF

* What do we think of the ‘new’ OpenNTF?

* Is IBM’s input making a difference?

Lotus Protector – Chris’ post re: hardware requirements

* Why do we think Lotus has chosen to specify xSeries only?

* Have you used Protector? What did you think?

* Is it a player in the market?

* On-premise vs. cloud based anti-spam/anti-virus – which do you use/recommend?

Follow up to AppStore discussions

* Bruce says “stop talking and start selling/innovating“

* Do we agree?

* New App Catalog at catalog.lotus.com.  Any better?

IAMLug

Tips

Ben: big fan of the application Evernote (Mac, Win, web, iPhone, Android, BB, Palm OS, WinMo) for organising notes, clippings, to-do lists, the whole nine yards.

Kathy:  follow @NotesDevTips on Twitter

Chris: TackItOn seminars coming along..

Darren: Licensing webinar on 7/15 @ 1PM EST

Stuart: iWidgets in Lotus Connections, some examples…