Today while using a pre-release version of the next Lotus Notes, I noticed a few nice little touches in the Open dialog box.

1. Rather than saying "Local" it says "On My Computer". ? I like this, it is a nice change that makes things more user friendly.
2. Databases are now listed in multiple columns instead of just a single long list.



Legal yada yada: "This document contains information about the future direction of IBM products, but is not a commitment that IBM will deliver specific features or capabilities, or that IBM will deliver any product releases at all. ?Future product direction, dates, features or capabilities can change at any time without notice. The screen shots in the blog represent non-production build and the UI is subject to change."

Looking at the uncertainty and volatility of market conditions today, enterprises are depending on new cutting-edge technology to have an edge over their fierce competitors. At the same time, they try extracting more value from their existing IT investments. Adding to these disparate applications and technologies are the acquisitions and mergers that inherently bring in different sets of applications.

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I'd like everyone to please welcome Jeff Eisen, Chief Architect for Lotus Notes to the blogging world. ? Jeff is the development leader for the future of Lotus Notes, a product IBM has been referring to over the last year by the code name Hannover. ? I encourage you to read Jeff's blog, and please interact with him on the questions you and your company may have. ? You could not have a more direct resource to getting the facts behind what IBM is developing. ?That said, of course there are things Jeff may not be able to share publicly yet!!!

Welcome Jeff, and happy to see you using DominoBlog!

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Tobias Schlitt "freaked out" today about PHP Freak's republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds.

This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues.

In my mind, there's no question that a blogger grants an implied license to the content in an RSS feed. However, because it's implied, I'm just not sure of the license terms. So, in theory, it could be an implied license to permit aggregators to do whatever they want.
...
It is trivial to destroy an implied license, so bloggers can overcome any aggregator use simply by saying so. I'm not sure WHERE the blogger would need to say this (by the "syndicate" link? in the xml feed itself?). Perhaps any disclosure in any reasonable place would be sufficient to destroy the implied license.

So it would seem that Tobias has reasonably withdrawn his implicit license by placing the notice in the feed itself, as a post. The question of where a reasonable place to put such a notice is important. Since one can subscribe to an RSS feed without ever visiting the parent site, I think perhaps the only reasonable place for a terms of service for a feed is within the feed itself. Snow vs. DirectTV suggests that a warning isn't necessarily enough to overcome an implicit license. Of course, I am not a lawyer so my interpretation may be flawed.

So what did PHP freaks do to incur Tobias' ire? They republish content from RSS feeds and added advertising. I think adding advertising to aggregated content is perfectly legal. (I'm sure Google and Yahoo see things the same way when they place advertising in their web based mail readers.) However, phpfreaks uses an contextual advertising that replaces words in the content with advertising links, shades of the microsoft smart tags debacle. In PHP freaks' favor they are very clear about attributing the source of their syndicated content and the fact that it is syndicated. Many aren't. Additionally, the links are marked with a double underline and cause a hover box to appear which clearly labels them as advertising.

Still, I suppose one could make the argument that it is unclear who placed the advertising in the content, php freaks, or Tobias. For that reason, I think this form of advertising on third party content cross a line.

I am not anti-advertising in general. Advertising directly and indirectly pays many of my bills and I don't begrudge someone else the opportunity to make a buck. I am also a publisher of copy righted content. And I'd rather that I made the buck off of my content than someone else. I think Tobias has the right to control the use of his material.

What do you think?

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Just a few topics today. :) Things here in Redmond have been pretty crazy the last few weeks, but crazy in a great way. IE7 Have you tried IE7 yet? If not, I gotta say, it's pretty damn good. In fact, I'm writing this post within IE7 Beta3, and it's been great to me so far. I haven't come across any sites yet that are displaying badly, so I'm going to consider that a good sign. Sure, it's adding some features that other browers have had for a while, but after 5 years, this is a great start, and I'm excited to see where things go next. I'm a huge believer in tabs, and the new layout is pretty slick. And for us web developers/designers, there are a lot of good things. For example, the problem with the XML prolog and having the DOCTYPE bug, it's...(read more)

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For this week's "Show-n-Tell Thursday" entry, I wanted to share a really great tool that I stumbled upon here at work. ?The main credit goes to IBMers Heiko Fischer and Laurence Marks for creating most of this code and working with me to share it will all of you.

In a previous tip, Creating links to a web page, I explained how you can create "URL Hotspots" in Notes to link to a web page. ? While this works well (and gives you a lot of power to use computed formulas!), it requires several steps and entering the URL into the Properties Box which is not that user friendly. ?Today's tip provides a simple alternative.

We are going to create a toolbar icon...


which when pressed will prompt you to enter the text for your link...


followed by a prompt for the link itself...


and finally you press either Space or Enter on your keyboard when you see the following dialog box...


and the link will be inserted into the document you are creating.


Note: You may see a MS-DOS window briefly appear and disappear, this is expected, don't worry.


Here are the steps to create the "Insert Hyperlink" toolbar icon.

1. ?Save the file hyperlink.gif


2. Select the following text and copy it to your clipboard:

lt := @Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; "Create Link"; "Please provide a link text:"; "Link");
@If(@Contains(lt; "<")|@Contains(lt; ">")|@Contains(lt; "|"); @Return(@Prompt([Ok]; "Create Link"; "Invalid character(s) in link text - aborted!")); @Set("lt"; @ReplaceSubstring(lt; "/"; "^/")));
ln := @LowerCase(@Trim(@Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; "Create Link"; "Please provide an URL:"; "http://")));
@If(!@Matches(ln; "+{a-z}://+{a-z./?&=}"); @Return(@Prompt([Ok]; "Create Link"; "Invalid URL - aborted!")); @Set("ln"; @ReplaceSubstring(ln; "/"; "^/")));
linkhtml := "^^"+lt+"^<^/a^>^<^/html^>";
@Do(@Command([Execute]; "cmd.exe"; "" /c echo "+linkhtml+">link.htm");
@Prompt([Ok];"Pause";"Press Space or Enter to continue and create the link.");
@PostedCommand([FileImport]; "HTML"; "link.htm");
@PostedCommand([Execute]; "cmd.exe"; "" /c del link.htm"))

3. From the Notes menus select "File - Preferences - Toolbar Preferences..."
4. In the resulting "Toolbar Preferences" dialog box, on the left hand side click "Customize"
5. Click "New - Button"
6. In the resulting "Edit Toolbar Button" dialog box, enter text you want for the button caption and popup help, and then in the formula field paste in the text you copied above.
7. Click on "Change Icon". ?This brings you to the "Insert Image Resource" dialog box.
8. Click on "New".
9. Select the "hyperlink.gif" file that you saved above, and click Open. ? Click on "Ok" to close the "Insert Image Resource" dialog box.
10. Click on "OK" to close the "Edit Toolbar Button" dialog box.
11. You will now see the new icon on the Toolbar Contents preview. ? If you would like you can leave it where it is, personally I like to move it to the far left using the "Left" Reorder button. ? Click on "Save Toolbar" and then "OK"

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Well, it is not really, but I it does remind me of staying up past my bedtime.... What Live from Redmond is really about is a set of videos directly from the product teams here in Microsoft main campus in Redmond, WA... I hope you will take time to attend a few of these and let me hear your feedback... what do you like, what do you want to hear more of, which speaker should get a big fat raise, etc. List of client talks: Date Title Speaker Registration URL 16-Aug Smart Client: Offline Data Synchronization and Caching for Smart Clients Steve Lasker Click here 23-Aug Windows Forms: An Overview of Windows Forms in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Saurabh Pant Click here 30-Aug Visual Studio: Developing Local and Mobile Data Solutions with SQL Server...(read more)

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Instead of using your mouse to click a button or tabbing to a button and hitting the space bar, this JavaScript code from SearchDomino.com member Peter Smith will allow you to hit Enter to click a button in Lotus Notes, just like you can on a Web page.

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