Archive for June, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-11

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  • morning tweeps! A big hello to my latest follower @notessensei thanks for tagging along! #
  • just updated @twhirl to v0.8.2 Some nice UI tweaks and integrated twitter status #
  • @kavit27 Have fun over there Kavita! Looking forward to hearing what you’re being shown, make sure you get a demo of Lotus Connections 2.0! #
  • thanks for the follow @rckstrscott enjoy the show! ;-) #
  • @pedrorq I often end up not blogging something for the same reason! Don´t want to just add to the “echo-chamber”!! #
  • @aspender I would love someone to be so “up with it” to ask me that in an interview! I agree, I think it would be a great insight #
  • @kavit27 So what colour is BlueHouse!? ;-) #
  • @stuartmcintyre good luck with that! I had some dealings with 123-reg a loong time ago, sounds like they have got worse #
  • @aspender quite, but even for less specialised techie roles, I still think it could give a great insight into what makes a candidate tick. #
  • @aspender particularly as the success of enterprise social computing depends more on the culture than the tools themselves IMHO #
  • @susanreynolds good luck, I hope it goes well #
  • @vitorpereira get a MAc! Don’t they come with one? #
  • @chuckstar76 does it really have that much baggage? What’s wrong with calling a spade a spade? surely its got more pros than cons….? #
  • @mastermark its all in the presentation right!? ;-) #
  • going to re-install ubuntu via wubi, trying the 32bit version this time. Blog posts to come.. #
  • @pedrorq has that been announced? I thought he was waiting until after Euro2008..? #

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Marketing Pilgrim > Is Google Sick of Flash Web Sites? New Feature Encourages Users to “Skip Intro”

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This post from Andy Beal caught my attention today, commenting on google’s latest feature. As part of its search results, Google is letting us skip a site’s flash intro.

So you know what we are discussing, here is an example search. Check out the [Skip Intro] link to the right of the result.

The new feature in itself I didn’t find particularly notable. However, Andy closes by saying (emphasis mine):

This suggests that Google is algorithmically detecting homepages that are all Flash, and taking it upon themselves to help you skip the intro.

What do you think about this? Great for searchers, but taking liberties with a site owner’s right to display a page as he intended?

Now this made me sit up!

This “right” Andy mentions was taken away with the advent of RSS. It brought into play a whole new way of users navigating the sites they now only rarely visit. Gone are the days when a site owner could “control” the landing page to their site, and what the user had to wade through just to get to what they wanted. Flash intros should be a thing of the past, and I don’t see why google is “taking liberties” in helping people actually get to the content they are looking for. I think site owners should see it that way also.

It surprised me, to see this question coming from a marketing blog resplendent with its RSS feeds and the like. If online marketing types are advising people to move towards RSS and social media, they need to also be explaining some of the consequences.

IBM External Sametime working in the Notes 8 embedded client

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I noticed this yesterday, the embedded Sametime client in Notes 8 is now able to connect to extst.ibm.com.

If this is actually new to anyone, IBM has an externally facing Sametime server, to which anyone with an IBM registration can login, and chat with IBMers internally.

The server to connect to is extst.ibm.com using your IBM username and password. It should work from behind a firewall or proxy over port 80.

Good news, and watch out all the IBM peeps!! ;-)

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-10

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  • @olufsphere not a chance! #
  • counting down the minutes until Spain take on Russia, hoping it’ll be a good game. Spain need to make an impression on the tournament #
  • football factoid: Spain have never won a European Championship match by more than one goal. Via the beeb: http://snurl.com/2ev8g #
  • @GrahamChastney LOL! Don’t suppose I can attend can I, having just got back from one…? #
  • Here we go! Game about to start. My prediction: Spain dominate but scrape a win by one goal #
  • @yellowpark what game are you watching then Chris!? They won’t get past Italy or Holland playing like this!! #
  • @yellowpark yes, I think Holland and Italy will go through from that group, France were shocking #
  • @chuckstar76 well spotted! You’re the first to notice the avatar! Feeling very much a yellobleeder after #ILUG2008! ;-) #

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Want Lotus Notes on the iPhone?

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Then promote the idea and sign the petition.


Dear Mr. Jobs,

We love the iPhone. But we are frustrated that you have focused your attention for Enterprise customers on Microsoft shops, while effectively snubbing IBM Lotus technologies, who remains a strong player with over 40% of the global messaging market.

Maybe of us already support thousands of Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices in an enterprise context and, particularly in light of your new pricing announcements, would love to transition our users to the iPhone. We understand that it could be a powerful business tool especially for our corporate leaders.

IBM leadership has stated that they are in communication with you about improving integration, but that they must work at a closer level than the SDK provides for today. Please help IBM enable the millions and millions of current Lotus customers to take advantage of your wonderful device.

Thank you.

I simply don’t understand why Apple would want to alienate such a huge chunk of the market, basically gifting it to Blackberry.

Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)

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Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, I had noticed that Update Manager was hanging, but not bothered to look into fixing it.

Tonight I did, and a quick search on google lead me to this post on Joe Wein’s blog with a clear explanation on how to solve the issue:

Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (”Hardy Heron”). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me for the user password.

If you’re in the same situation, the following tips might help you. Edit /etc/hosts with an editor of your choice (e.g. sudo vi /etc/hosts). There should be two entries with IPv4 addresses starting with 127.0.x.x, like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mycomputername.mydomain

Remove the domain name from the entry starting with 127.0.1.1, leaving only the computer name and save the file. Now try again.

When I made this change I got the password prompt as expected and all the updates where downloaded and applied.

Thanks Joe!

And that was ILUG2008

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Wow, what a great week!

ILUG2008 organisersFirstly I must join the ranks of all those heaping thanks on the team that made the event possible, Paul, Eileen, Kitty, Warren, Bill, Tom, Matt, Julian, and Rob. This may be a free to attend event, but that takes nothing away from the organisation, and quality of the sessions.

Choosing the sessions to attend was a no-win situation, there were too many I wanted to see, but which coincided. Again, not the fault of the agenda, rather a reflection on the quality of the speakers and their sessions.

I got a lot out of the 3 days, both technically and personally. It was great to meet in person so many names from the blogs. There are too many of you to mention, as I’d only forget someone! You know who you are!

Some highlights then:

  • Alan‘s opening session. Entertaining jabs at twitter, and thought-provoking insights into what IBM Lotus are working on for the future. I’d have loved to have been able to quiz him further, as I see the culture change needed for successful adoption of social software as currently the biggest challenge.
  • Speedsponsoring. What a great way of “forcing” sponsors and delegates together! Well done to all the sponsors who had a shot at this, it was almost enjoyable for us too! ;-)
  • Speedgeeking. The first time I had experienced this, it lived up to expectations! While far more difficult than it must appear, its something that must be fun to have a go at. Now just to find something vaguely interesting to rant about 20 times in an hour!
  • The Guinness. This was my first time to Ireland, and so tasting the real thing was pretty special for me. Not something to be taken for granted!

I do feel I’m being a little unfair in just picking out a few of my personal highlights, there was so much I enjoyed that I haven’t mentioned!

Anyway, thanks to all of you who said “Hi” and put up with me during the week, and hope to meet you all again some place soon, if not, ILUG2009!?

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