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IBM Software Forum – February 26

Published February 5, 2009 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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Updated Monday with links to the event page at ibm.com/il/news/events/swforum .

IBM Software Forum will be held on Thursday, February 26th, 15:00-17:30, at Cinema City just outside of Tel Aviv. The event will feature all five software brands – Lotus, Tivoli, Information Management, Rational and WebSphere – and focus on new announcements and success stories. The 6th session will focus on IBM System Z solutions (Mainframe). Participation is free of course, but requires registration at ibm.com/il . At the end of IBM Software Forum there will be a premiere movie screening at Cinema City, of Gran Turino, starring Clint Eastwood.

As for Lotus, we have a very cool afternoon planned out, with two guest speakers and a welcome presentation by yours truly. The Lotus agenda is as follow:
Social media at the business and new Lotus solutions – Dvir Reznik
Housing 2.0 at Amidar – Amir Belferman, CIO, Amidar
Barack Obama, the long tail and social media – Niv Calderon, social media consultant.

The event page for registration and full description of IBM Software Forum will go live Sunday, so by Monday morning this post will be updated for you to register.. 😉

See you at IBM Software Forum!

SuperBowl XLIII Commercials

Published February 2, 2009 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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Although I stayed up for the first 45min of the game last night, I saw no commercials.. 🙁
Luckily, there’s the internet.

Lior Zoref wrote about his favorites, Bilal did the same, Jon Borg talked about Hulu’s revolution – Mitch Cohen went all the way and provided the link to all of them, over at adweek.com. Thanks Mitch!

Here’s my (and Lior’s) favorite, Hulu with Alec Baldwin:

ChannelWeb: 17 scenes from Lotusphere 2009

Published February 1, 2009 Uncategorized Closed
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Flickr and facebook are just two of the places where you can see pictures from IBM’s Lotusphere 2009, the 16th annual Lotus and WebSphere Portal conference, held late January in Orlando, Florida. ChannelWeb has put up a slideshow capturing 17 scenes from this year’s event – 16 + 1 for next year.. 😉 Head over and check out their 17 scenes.

Above is my own favorite – the launch of LotusLive, Lotus full collaboration suite, offered in SaaS form.

IBM’s CEO at the White House with President Obama

Published February 1, 2009 Uncategorized 3 Comments
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I was relaxing one evening at my hotel in Barcelona, watching CNN, when all of a sudden I see Sam Palmisano, IBM CEO, alongside US President Barack Obama. I read on our corporate intranet that Palmisano presented his remarks on the economic stimulus plan to the White House, had no idea he actually met with Pres. Obama.

IBM CEO, Sam Palmisano, participated in a roundtable discussion of business leaders with President Obama to discuss the economy. Sam was also asked to give a brief speech.
My colleagues Todd (Turbo) Watson and Adam Christensen already wrote about this, with links to the video from CNBC and the transcript.

Links:
Sam visits the White House – Todd Watson
Economic stimulus remarks from IBM’s CEO – A Smarter Planet (Adam Christensen)
A smarter planet: The next leadership agenda – Council on Foriegn Relations
Government investment could lead to 900,000 IT jobs – eWeek
Samuel J. Palmisano – ibm.com

Gmail Labs adds Lotus Notes Replication Capability

Published January 31, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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One of the many things I love about Google Reader is its Offline mode – which comes in handy especially during flights. I can read (a lot of) feeds and blogs, marking for later the things I want to tag/dogear/post/delicious. This story at Calcalist.co.il caught my eye, talking about Gmail Labs adding offline capability to the popular e-mail service. Wow.

Don’t get me wrong, I do love Gmail (much more than Yahoo! Mail), and the Labs have some cool products, BUT, two things bugs me in this story:

The first, Lotus Notes has been sporting this ‘offline’ mode since its inception, some 16 years ago. It’s called ‘Replication‘, and allows you to take everything (not just emails) offline, including composite applications, calendar, emails with attachments – and syncing with the Domino server when such a connection is available.

The second is the total disregard to Lotus Notes and Domino as a desktop email client/platform. The reporter, Dora Kishinevsky, mentions that such a feature is similar to what desktop email clients do, like Outlook. Israel is a Microsoft country, but there are other vendors, and some journalists know that.

Links:
Gmail Labs adds offline capability – Calcalist.co.il
Google unveils beta of offline Gmail option – NetworkWorld (via Ed Brill)
Gmail Labs adds a decade old Notes feature – Alan Lepofsky

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