For those of you not wanting to visit Second Life, the Lotusphere 2007 Opening Session is now available on the Lotus web site.

I'm very proud to announce that ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 shipped this morning. This is the result of all the work we've done since the first CTP and of all the very valuable feedback from our early adopters. I can't stress this enough: this product is probably one of the Microsoft products that incorporated the most user feedback. It is also to my knowledge the first time that Microsoft releases the full source code for a supported product (yes, we have full 24x7 support for ten years). Get all the details from Scott's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/01/23/asp-net-ajax-1-0-released.aspx Feedback very welcome as usual. Read More......(read more)

Wow, we had hoped this would be a success, but today goes beyond our wildest dreams. ? We had thousands (we're still getting the stats, but it looks like way past 7000) of people come to the IBM theatre today to watch the Lotusphere 2007 keynote in Second Life.



I only had a few minutes to be there between press interviews, but I had a great time while I was there. ? It was great to "meet" so many people, thank you for walking up and saying hi. ? I saw so many conversations going on, in a variety of languages. ? I was able to answers questions from several people while I was there. ? This was unlike any "standard web conference" I have ever attended.


The biggest set of questions where about how to watch the webcast. ? Along the bottom of your Second Life screen, you should see a button for "Movies". ? From there you press play.



If you do not see "Movies", you can enable it from the preferences screen. (CTRL+P). ? ?Go to the Audio & Video tab, and enable "Play Streaming Video".



You can use Second Life's camera controls to change your view however you'd like, but the easiest way to focus on the screen is to hold down the ALT key on your keyboard, and click on the huge IBM screen with your mouse. ? This will change your focus to the best possible angle from where you are standing. ?Don't forget, you don't have to watch from the ground, you can fly in Second Life!

Learn how to make money online with Photoshop. This article shows five easy ways to earn money using your skills as a photographer and graphics artist. A mini guide with lots of resources.

Steve Marx has been working behind the scenes on building out a community project to create native PHP support for the Microsoft AJAX Library. Today he released the first version. He provides a ton of details in this post which I steal liberally from below. First download ASP.NET AJAX or grab just the client side Microsoft AJAX Library Second, check out the codeplex project Third, code away -- you can contribute bugs, code and more at the CodePlex site -- I think this is pretty darn cool and when you think about this in terms of our FastCGI work on IIS things are getting very cool for developers in any language/platform. Check out this HelloWorld sample code: read more)

I've been offline for a few days. I get back, and Mariano has been at it again, writing more How To articles. This one was posted on his blog and on the WCSF CodePlex Forums . Enjoy Read More......(read more)

11:59 PM

Okay, long day going to sessions and working on my "Selling Notes" presentation with Ed Brill in the morning. No more summary data until tomorrow, I'm afraid.

However, I will tell you that Ed and I COMPLETELY revamped the "Selling Notes" presentation from last year, so even if you've been to it in years past it's a brand new show. Come by and watch! Wednesday at 10:00 AM in Dolphin A-C.

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3:22 PM

Just a quick thought (as I'm in a session) before I forget:

Social Software is the new Knowledge Management
John Roling and I discussed this last night, and I've been thinking this all day as I've been seeing the new Lotus software. Social software is the new knowledge management. And this time it works. And people are going to use it. Heck, they already are, just not in business. Not until now.

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If a business position is easy to clone then it is probably not worth taking on that business as a client.

Nicely said, Werner. Do have any recommendations for a file-based CMS?

It has been a bumpy and exciting ride the last few weeks with the Web Platform and Tools group as we've been putting the finishing touches on ASP.NET AJAX. But now, the ribbon is on the box!!! After an amazing amount of customer input (you really did shape this product, thank you), I am thrilled to be able to announce that today we released the final, fully supported, 1.0 version of ASP.NET AJAX. You can download it here . This release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 includes all features in previous versions plus: Significant bug fixing, performance and robustness work Performance and scalability improvements for shared hosting scenarios. Globalization fixes to ScriptManager and ScriptResource handler to support date & number parsing and UI culture...(read more)

It's done! You can download the RTM version of the ASP.NET AJAX bits here , and the matching Toolkit bits here . The ASP.NET AJAX project has been a lot of fun to be involved and it's great to have it full released so people can start to take advantage of it on all their sites. It's also been very intersting to see how the symbiosis between Microsoft side of the project (ASP.NET AJAX) and the community developed part (the Toolkit) has evolved. It's a powerful thing. The Toolkit team has been very busy, since October or so, just keeping up with the ASP.NET AJAX releases. This release we managed to do more than just keep in check - we finally got some new controls into the project along with 73 bug fixes. We spent a lot of time looking at all...(read more)

The big news for the day: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is finally out and available... Read More......(read more)

W3C XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 Become Standards: Tools to Query, Transform, and Access XML and Relational Data http://www.w3.org/ -- 23 January 2007 -- Based on widespread implementation experience and extensive feedback from users and vendors, W3C has published eight...

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IBM Shortcut Podcast Special Lotusphere 2007 edition - running time 8 minutes.

This week, we've put together a special edition of ShortCuts from Lotusphere 2007 in Orlando, Florida. Reporting from Orlando, ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky takes you through everything that's new from Lotus this year. Highlights: a new release of Notes and Domino that fully modernizes the user interface and integrates other desktop applications into the Lotus environment; two new additions to the Lotus portfolio of products - Lotus Connections, which bundles a suite of enterprise social software applications and Lotus Quickr, a document sharing solution; and some great upgrades to Sametime, the Lotus Instant Messaging client. Tune in to find out more!

Monday next week, MobileMonday NY will host the first event of what I hope will be a long-lasting Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG series. I have pointed out before that I think initiatives promoting Mobile SVG to smaller companies...

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One of the things announced during the Lotusphere Opening General Session was that Lotusphere now has a Second Life presence. ? Please try and join us at 10 am ET on Tuesday January 22nd at http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%209/40/60/23. ? If you have no idea what that means, than when you log on instant message me, AlanLepo Lotus, and I will teleport you over.

We've recreated the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel. ? Below I am wearing my Lotusphere 2007 tshirt, and my Lotusphere flag. ? There are plenty of areas to sit around and talk with others. ? Look up and try and ride the red flying fish!!!


To pick up your free Lotus Second Life goodies, look for this box...


Please make sure to walk into the side room where we are highlighting the winners of this years Lotus Business Partner Lotus Awards. ? Click on the blue floating trophies to learn more about each solution.


Check out the teleporter (shown below) which takes you to one of the rooms in the sky, and make sure to ride the "emergency exit" transport tube back down to the ground level!


You'll be able to watch parts of the Lotusphere Opening General Session in the large IBM theatre that you can see in the background of the image below.



Finally, don't forget, the Lotusphere building is just one small area of IBM's overall site. ?You should take the train tour and look around the other parts of our islands. ?There is so much to see, like the SOA towers, Circuit City, and Sears.

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