ibm.com: IBM Helps Construction Firm Boost Number of Clients by 40% Through Mobile Real-Time Trends Analysis
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 5:34p Ed Brill 250 employees, growing their number of clients by 40% through using Domino, iEnterprises' CRM solution, and Blackberry...This allows project managers to improve decision making, shorten sales cycles and significantly increased new business by making client interactions and client contact information accessible to all project managers through their smartphones. Besides an increase in new clients by 40 percent, up from the year prior, VCC has also seen an average savings of 400 employee hours per [read] Keywords: domino
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Bye bye blogroll
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 8:40p Ed Brill It's been a long time since I thought about my blogroll or, for that matter, really paid attention to anyone else's. I find blogs today through PlanetLotus (and there are a number of new ones found there), Google alerts, Twitter and Facebook links, and our internal implementation of Lotus Connections. So, rather than inadvertently offend someone not included, or consider whether the links there are still relevant, I've blown it away. I put it on a hidden page for now, and suppose I can resurf [read] Keywords: connections
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New widget on ibm.com Notes/Domino pages highlights plug-in partners
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 10:34a Ed Brill We added a small rotating widget to the ibm.com/lotus/notes and ibm.com/lotus/domino product pages to highlight our key Notes plug-in partners: Gist, Tungle, FewClix, TripIt, and OpenSpan. See here in red: The goal is to increase awareness of these value-add tools that are available to showcase the power of the Notes 8.x client. Link: ibm.com/lotus/notes > [read] Keywords: domino
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Need your help - updated Notes/Domino virtualization survey
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 10:30a Ed Brill It's been about a year since the last time we did this, and this time, we want to know about both client- and server-side virtualization technologies. This area is moving fast and not a week goes by without a request for us to support some new virtualization technology. VMWare and Citrix remain the most frequently-asked, but there are now half dozen others mentioned regularly. The survey will only take about ten minutes to fill out; you need an IBM.com ID in order to do so. Sample question [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Symphony 3 beta 4 now available
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 9:49a Ed Brill Yesterday, we posted Lotus Symphony 3 beta 4, what should be the last beta of the Symphony 3 cycle. You can download it from here. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 adds some exciting new enhancements. We've focused on performance. In addition we've enabled the support for adding additional spell check dictionaries into the product and added support for VML images. We've done some additional work around installation to support a silent installation option for Windows. We've added some enhancements to t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Update on Lotus Notes Traveler for Android
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 9:37a Ed Brill Now that Notes/Domino 8.5.2 is out, a few questions have trickled in about the status of the Notes Traveler client for Android. To refresh, we announced at Lotusphere that we would build our own Notes Traveler client for the Android 2.x OS -- supporting mail, calendar, contacts. We knew that the Android OS would evolve to have some of these capabilities in the base OS, but enterprise calendaring and other features just aren't there; plus, different devices using Android use different sets o [read] Keywords: calendaring
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The Calendar of the Future | A manifesto from Tungle.me
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 9:20a Ed Brill Yesterday, Tungle debuted a site called "The Calendar of the Future | A Manifesto". The site features interviews with Tungle's team and industry experts, including Robert Scoble, Google's Don Dodge, LinkedIn's Ellen Levy, Facebook's Michael Brown, me, and others. I am honored to be in the copy of smart, visionary people on these videos. They are well worth 15 minutes of your time. Part of the reason I was so excited to participate in the Manifesto was my long ties to enterprise calendari [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Notes and Domino 8.5.2 release now available!
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 11:00a Ed Brill As announced on August 10, the new Notes and Domino 8.5.2 release arrived earlier today, along with service availability of LotusLive Notes. Notes/Domino 8.5.2 is a release primarily about reliability -- lots of fixes -- but with incremental improvements in the Notes client and significant forward progress for developers in Domino Designer. The blogs are buzzing about the release, and some of the Design Partners and beta participants have blogged over the last few months about key new featur [read] Keywords: domino
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Score one for the Lotus blogging community; ibm.com has been updated
Sat, Aug 21st 2010 11:10p Ed Brill Back before my vacation, a few bloggers were talking about the abrasive, mixed message that IBM was sending to the market by having a web page from ibm.com Global Technology Services describing their Notes to Exchange migration offering. My stance at the time was that IBM, as a portfolio business that is dedicated to every client's success, should be the best possible systems integrator for Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, or whomever else in our GTS business, even while we are competing with those co [read] Keywords: ibm
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Check out the new Taking Notes and This Week In Lotus podcasts
Sat, Aug 14th 2010 3:24p Ed Brill With the launch of Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and LotusLive Notes this week, it was a good opportunity to make the podcast rounds. Be sure to check out both the Taking Notes podcast and This Week In Lotus for in-depth Q&A on these product launches and other current topics in the Notes/Domino universe. Taking Notes Podcast with Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux: This week we spoke with IBM's Ed Brill who is the Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus Software about this weeks LotusLive Notes an [read] Keywords: domino
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Eat Pray Love (not a movie review)
Sat, Aug 14th 2010 3:15p Ed Brill I don't see chick flicks and I don't read chick lit...as much as I try to be a renaissance man, this genre simply doesn't appeal to me (nor is it designed to, obviously). So normally, a book/movie like Eat, Pray, Love would never hit my radar. Except that I love to eat in Italy. I found my visit to India ten years ago, and places like the Taj Mahal, spiritual. And I've met Wayan. The book Eat, Pray, Love was released in February, 2006. During 2007, as my bride-to-be and I planned our we [read] Keywords: application
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Almost 8.5.2
Sun, Aug 8th 2010 10:51p Ed Brill I dropped some strong hints about the release of Notes/Domino 8.5.2 at the IamLUG user group last week. The hints can get stronger now, and you'll get an official announcement soon. We're set to ship this month in English, with language rollouts starting just a few weeks after the initial release. More soon. [read] Keywords: domino
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Gartner says IBM customers migrating to Microsoft will likely be disappointed
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 2:02p Ed Brill Well, that's not the title of the report...the title is "Migrating Off Notes/Domino E-Mail May Make Sense in Some Circumstances" [Impossible to deep-link on Gartner's website, it's report ID:G00200566, price US$495]. It might just as well be written as "Migrating Off Notes/Domino Doesn't Make Sense in Most Circumstances", but that probably wouldn't sell as much consulting time. Yes, earlier today, Gartner analyst Tom Austin published eight pages that can be basically summarized [read] Keywords: collaboration
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EUROCITIES adopts Lotus software for collaboration
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 5:00p Ed Brill This press release came out earlier today...WebSphere Portal, Lotus Domino, Lotus Quickr in a pan-government implementation...EUROCITIES, an organization connecting the local government employees in more than 140 large cities in over 30 European countries, has chosen IBM software to help its members collaborate on improving social, environmental and economic conditions for citizens. ... EUROCITIES is using IBM software to create a new interactive website that will facilitate real-time knowled [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Gizmodo.com.au: Lifehackerâs Future Of Email Event
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 5:00p Ed Brill General Manager of Lotus software Alistair Rennie will participate in this cool forum...Email has become such a core part of our daily lives over the past decade that it’s not something we really spend too much time thinking about here at Gizmodo. Fortunately though, the team at Lifehacker do think about it – a lot – and they’re hosting a big event to discuss both the role email plays in today’s society, as well as what the technology’s future holds. Dubbed [read] Keywords: ibm
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IamLUG debrief
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 12:20p Ed Brill I am back from two days in St. Louis at the IamLUG User Group meeting. Many others have blogged about individual sessions, including Mitch Cohen's virtual recap of my Notes/Domino strategy session. So here are some general thoughts. First, Chris Miller and the team running the event did a great job. Everything seemed flawless to me, other than some minor audio issues on the UStream early in the keynote. The sessions were well-attended, and as feels appropriate with the "culture" of t [read] Keywords: domino
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Joyce Davis: Replay of July community meeting - Future opportunities for Notes/Domino professionals
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 12:00p Ed Brill Last week, my colleague Arthur Fontaine and I participated in the useful and engaging Lotus Technical Information and Education community open call. Our topic was "Future opportunities for Notes/Domino professionals", and we lead a good discussion on the topic. We know that with significant change in the IT market in general, and the Notes/Domino market specifically, admins and developers are thinking about how to align their personal interests with future career opportunities. Joyce had th [read] Keywords: domino
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The iPad did it (updated)
Sun, Aug 1st 2010 11:20p Ed Brill On Thursday last week, I took a short trip to New York City to meet an important customer. Because of my older daughter's summer schedule, I try to stay home at least every other week during these months, but sometimes, duty calls. I took the 6 AM flight out from Chicago to LaGuardia, booked a car to meet me there on limores.net (who use technology very, very well to manage your trip, for about the same cost as a taxi), and was at Ground Zero, near my client's office, well before the meeting. [read] Keywords: traveler
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The iPad did it
Sun, Aug 1st 2010 10:48a Ed Brill On Thursday last week, I took a short trip to New York City to meet an important customer. Because of my older daughter's summer schedule, I try to stay home at least every other week during these months, but sometimes, duty calls. I took the 6 AM flight out from Chicago to LaGuardia, booked a car to meet me there on limores.net (who use technology very, very well to manage your trip, for about the same cost as a taxi), and was at Ground Zero, near my client's office, well before the meeting. [read] Keywords: traveler
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The Register: Microsoft gets dirty with Gmail cloud cash fight
Sat, Jul 31st 2010 11:10a Ed Brill The Register reports on Microsoft's approach to winning customers to BPOS versus Google and, presumably, Notes/Domino or LotusLive. The tactics described explain a lot. In my personal opinion, this approach to business is way beyond "SPIFs" and even beyond "bounties". And while the article discusses one customer who has made a Notes to Exchange Online decision in this context, it seems reasonable to think this payola approach is the real motivator behind other recent decisions. So when are [read] Keywords: domino
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New Notes/Domino customer success stories page on ibm.com
Wed, Jul 28th 2010 11:10a Ed Brill This is a useful improvement: a single page that is part of the Notes/Domino section of ibm.com (www.ibm.com/software/lotus/notes or www.lotus.com/notes for old-school) that highlights key recent customer stories around the use of Lotus Notes and Domino. Sorted by industry, each features a pull quote from one of the stories highlighted within. Access the Lotus Notes and Domino customer success stories directly here, or find the link in the left-hand navigator throughout the product pages. [read] Keywords: domino
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Questions from the Domino statistics team
Tue, Jul 27th 2010 5:10p Ed Brill My colleagues in engineering who focus on Domino statistics have asked for the opportunity to ask the admins out there some questions about how you use statistics on Domino. Feel free to comment here, or send me mail at work with your thoughts. The goal of the exercise is to improve documentation, rework tools like statrep, and make other improvements in the world of Domino statistics. Looking forward to your insights. a. As a Domino Administrator, do you proactively monitor server health [read] Keywords: domino
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TCA/TCO Study on Lotus Domino x86 consolidation to IBM Power Systems
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 11:30a Ed Brill This popped up on a Google alert for me over the weekend... I am honestly not sure why it is buried in a channel announcement deep in the IBM website, and why the PDF seems to crash my browser. Will see if I can find the right person to discuss both. Assuming you get to it and open it in Acrobat, it's a very cool paper...In the following study, we'll explore details for example of savings of almost a $1M Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by running Domino mail on one Power 750 with 12 cores runnin [read] Keywords: domino
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IDoNotes podcast 79: IAmLUG
Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 7:30p Ed Brill Don't miss this podcast that Chris Miller and I did earlier today talking about the IamLUG, the user group event in St Louis coming up in ten days! was lucky to catch Ed Brill as he packed his bags and begin his walk to St Louis for IamLUG taking place Aug 2-3 2010. IBM is a Platinum sponsor of the event and will once again bring a ton of information. Last year we were lucky enough to hear about the Lotus Knows launch. I wonder what will come out of it this time around? The keynote from Do [read] Keywords: ibm
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Best Practices for Converting from Lotus Notes-Domino to Google Apps
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 4:00p Ed Brill Looks like it's another week, another Google competitive document strewn with inaccuracies.... This one starts with the premise that Google is the next generation, and gives readers ten steps to evaluate Google Apps. Too bad so many of them are based on false dichotomies. For example, someone at Google dug deep to come up with this comparison:Software Acquisition Costs: Lotus Domino plus Lotus SmartSuite costs $450 per user based on published pricing. Google Apps costs $50 per user, per ye [read] Keywords: agent
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Notes 8 client running with a Notes 7 mail template
Mon, Jul 19th 2010 10:30p Ed Brill I'm on a flight right now, and the passenger across the aisle has caught my eye. No, it's not her sparkly jewelry, but rather the software running on her Dell laptop. She's using the attractive Lotus Notes 8.5 -- but with the less-attractive Notes 7 mail template. This is far from the first time I have seen this combination. When we were first working on building Notes 8, eager beta testers tried out the "Hanover" release at any cost. As companies adopted Notes 8, some chose to deploy new [read] Keywords: admin
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Best.Lotusphere session ratings.Evar.
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 11:30a Ed Brill Yes, it has been six months, but we tend to leave Lotusphere and move on to the next thing. However, as we start to ramp up on Lotusphere 2011, the results were tabulated from the Lotusphere 2010 session evaluations. At Lotusphere 2010, over 90% of the sessions received an average rating of "Excellent". This is the highest overall session rating ever. The good news continues -- 91% of Birds-of-a-Feather sessions received an average rating of "Excellent" -- a more than 10% improvement yea [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Google envisions life after Notes in a reference guide
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 4:50p Ed Brill Surprised to see this document on Google's website. While Google is getting a lot of attention with their Google Apps offering, I'm still not seeing a lot of current impact in customers actually migrating. Sure there are some customers moving, but where they are, they tend to be small organizations with email-only kind of requirements. That seems to me to be a retro view of the market, not an innovative one as so many seem to want to ascribe to Google. With that in mind, perhaps it is no s [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Upcoming travel/event plans
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 4:50p Ed Brill The summer is when things are supposed to slow down, right? Well, not when we are just weeks away from launching Notes/Domino 8.5.2, LotusLive Notes, and all sorts of fun planning next releases. I've also been trying to stay home, for a bit, or at least keep my passport in the lockbox for a while. Still, there is travel ahead. From a major activity perspective, in August I will be at IamLUG in St Louis on August 2 and 3. The keynote speaker this year is Doug Cox, IBM Vice President of Dev [read] Keywords: domino
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Another great case study: Haiti relief application built on Notes in TWO HOURS
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 12:21p Ed Brill This one speaks for itself...On January 12, the Haiti earthquake struck, with its epicenter just west of the populous capital of Port-au-Prince, and estimates quickly rose to 230,000 dead, 1.5 million homeless and 3 million in need of emergency aid for the most basic necessities. The epic, urgent need on the ground required immediate response. That same day, Colin Cameron, Director of Software Engineering at MAXIMUS, received an inquiry from the CEO asking if the company could set up a Web site [read] Keywords: domino
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Great DominoWiki case study now available
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 10:51a Ed Brill This IBM case study has been published for a couple of months, but admittedly, I hadn't seen it until yesterday. The solution highlights how an IBM business partner took the OpenNTF project DominoWiki and deployed it for a small Finnish logistics company. Great quote from the customer: "Some small and medium-sized businesses are afraid of IBM -- they see it as a huge corporation that doesn't develop software for smaller companies. Our experience is quite the opposite: Lotus Notes and Domino ar [read] Keywords: domino
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Then and now, episode 3
Sat, Jul 3rd 2010 9:48a Ed Brill Then, April 23, 2009:Blockbuster embraced software plus services by deploying Microsoft Online Services to update the undependable and outdated Lotus Notes environment while minimizing costs and impact to end users.Now, CNET, July 3, 2010: Exactly what Blockbuster's future will look like is anyone's guess. By being delisted from the NYSE, it seems as if yet another nail has been put into its coffin.BNET, July 2, 2010:It should be clear as crystal by this point that no miraculous financial turn [read] Keywords: lotus
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Updated Lotus Solutions Catalog
Sat, Jul 3rd 2010 12:20a Ed Brill No, it's not your fruit-inspired app store, at least not yet. But the Lotus Solutions Catalog at catalog.lotus.com has been updated with a number of Web 2.0-y features, including a carousel UI, more feedback on popularity and interest in particular entries or the overall catalog, and versioning for entries. All built on Domino XPages, and with a much-improved UI. What do we still have to do? A lot more. Long list, team internally already knows clearly what some of the next updates sho [read] Keywords: domino
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Forbes.com: Under The Radar: IBM’s Mobile Strategy
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 1:40p Ed Brill Not quite two weeks ago, IBM held a "mobility day" event for press and analysts in our Massachusetts Labs (Littleton). I blogged about Alistair Rennie's presentation from that day, but wasn't able to capture some of the other events and messages. It turns out there, was a lot of analysis written about that day, from analysts like Redmonk and Hurwitz to mainstream press. I really liked this short article in Forbes, which kind of makes the point of the whole thing:I'm sitting in an all-day mob [read] Keywords: ibm
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Images from Chile
Sun, Jun 27th 2010 7:30p Ed Brill Home, disoriented, exhausted after three weeks of travel, putting the pieces together for the days and weeks ahead. I had a great trip this week, very productive in building and furthering relationships with customers, partners, and IBMers. And we did manage to sneak in a little bit of time for some sightseeing -- a side trip before leaving to the Casablanca Valley wineries, and Valparaiso and Viña del Mar on the Pacific coast. From what little I saw, Chile is a beautiful, vibrant, and i [read] Keywords: ibm
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The most senior-level meeting I’ve ever done
Wed, Jun 23rd 2010 5:28p Ed Brill IBM's social media guidelines are clear: Don't blog about specific customer situations. So I won't. But what I will say in generalities is that I've just returned from a meeting that was the main reason I came to Chile this week -- I met the CEO of one of my customers to discuss the future of collaboration and productivity. And in sixteen years at IBM, I've never had the opportunity to call on the "Gerente General" of any customer, certainly of the size, anywhere in the world. This was a ver [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Parsing through observations of the last week, part 1: XPages
Sun, Jun 20th 2010 10:47a Ed Brill The following observation was made about twenty different times, this particular one quotes Fredrik Stöckel:A huge problem though with XPages at the moment is the (lack of) documentation, especially the API documentation, and the content-assist that only works if certain criteria are meet - and only in certain contexts (which gives you the (false) impression that it’s broken). It leaves you with the feeling that it’s a bit “unfinished”. It’s very important to pro [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes Traveler for Android beta: some clarifications
Fri, Jun 18th 2010 11:11a Ed Brill I've had a zillion questions about Lotus Notes Traveler for Android since we did the beta announcement on Wednesday. Some FAQ: Q) Where is the beta? A) You must be nominated and accepted for this beta, it is not a public beta (at least not yet). If you are interested in participating in the beta, please nominate yourself here. Not all nominations will be accepted, but we will add more over time. Q) What do I need to run Notes Traveler for Android? A) You need to have a Notes Traveler [read] Keywords: domino
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eWeek: Google Apps Replaced by Microsoft for Immature Products, Service, Serena Says
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 2:30p Ed Brill Article that's interesting both for the story of MS displacing Google and knocking the bloom off the vine there, but also because the reporter may perhaps not understand the market dynamics that are typically in play when competing with Redmond....Word on the high-tech street is that Microsoft is giving Serena Software its Business Productivity Online Standard Suite for free for three years, is migrating the company over from Google Apps for free and is providing a great discount on the overall [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Computerworld: IBM to set new mobility strategy with launch of software development lab
Tue, Jun 15th 2010 11:51p Ed Brill Wednesday morning (uh, in just a few hours), IBM is opening the doors on its new Massachusetts Labs. You can watch the grand opening live at 9 AM EDT here. Lots of VIPs at the event, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Following the ribbon cutting, IBM will host a mobile strategy event for industry analysts and press in the Labs. Among the speakers will be Alistair Rennie, talking about things IBM does on mobile devices, now and in the future. Those who saw my mobile strategy [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why does my Notes calendar look better on my iPad?
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 6:15p Ed Brill So, obviously I'm loving my new iPad. Yesterday at DNUG, I found I was able to use it as my primary device during the day for the kind of interrupt-driven email triage that usually happens when I'm on the road, mixed in with the occasional surfing and calendar updates. The battery life is excellent, the display is great, and the functionality maps to what I need. Game changer for sure. One of the questions today in the closing session at the German Notes User Group DNUG was, essentially, w [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Lotus Notes Traveler on the iPad: Now supported
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 5:40a Ed Brill This morning at the Deutsche Notes User Group, and later today in San Francisco at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, IBM Lotus is announcing official support for Lotus Notes Traveler on the iPad. I will add a link to the press release once it is on the wire. Notes Traveler on the iPad is, as I learned last week, exceedingly simple. It.just.works. I connected up to my Notes Traveler server via a clientless-VPN session established through Lotus Mobile Connect. After that initial log [read] Keywords: dwa
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John Head: Symphony 3 beta 3 is out
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 1:10a Ed Brill Looks like John has found one of today's announcements, and it's a screamer (as in screaming fast).... You can download Lotus Symphony 3 beta 3, now, with tons of new features and improvements over the earlier beta. Development progress on UI, fit and finish, and performance has been excellent. I've been using Symphony 3 exclusively for several months, and it is just a joy on this 100% Microsoft-free desktop. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3 adds some exciting new enhancements. You can now cu [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Knows we’re marching on Australia and New Zealand
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 12:00a Ed Brill As reported by blogger Mick Stokes yesterday, the first "Lotus Knows" advertisement has shown up in the land down under, specifically in Voice and Data magazine. I had the opportunity to review the Lotus Knows plans with the Aussie marketing team last week, and I'm excited by what they have in store for the months ahead. As of today, lotusknows.com.au and lotusknows.co.nz are up and running. The internal launch of Lotus Knows within IBM in the two countries is kicking off today, June 8. A [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Intec blog: New XPages White Paper: Maximising the Benefits of Lotus Domino 8.5.x with XPages
Sun, Jun 6th 2010 9:21p Ed Brill This is a nice, relatively concise whitepaper, that covers the pros and cons of learning and developing in XPages. Essentially a risk-benefit analysis, the paper covers technology, learning, delivery, and software impact.The white paper has been published on Intec's website to enable customers and non-customers to justify the move to XPages and the roles IBM Business Partners like Intec can offer. It is worth emphasising that you do not necessarily need to upgrade your whole infrastructure and [read] Keywords: domino
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Paul Mooney: Speed improvement loading Notes 852
Sun, Jun 6th 2010 10:37a Ed Brill Paul is part of the design partner program, and as with other beta participants, has been given the early run to start talking about Notes 8.5.2 in advance of its planned Q3 release. Several of you will find his post good news. He shows an improvement of 10% or more in the cold start time vs. 8.5.1, which is even better than 8.0.1 or 8.0.2. The warm start is a mere matter of seconds, as fast as a browser or any other app. Links: Cold start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUT2xVzoro&fe [read] Keywords: notes
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Brilliant Flashes: I am a Berliner
Sun, Jun 6th 2010 10:35a Ed Brill As I pack this morning to head to Berlin for this week's Deutsche Notes Users Group, I find myself thinking back to my first trip to Berlin, which was my first-ever visit to Germany, in 1998. I don't often cross-post here from my Chicago Tribune TribLocal Highland Park column. Today, though, I'm rereading what I wrote in December, 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall:This all changed for me in 1998, when I began traveling to the now-reunited Germany for business. Less t [read] Keywords: notes
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iPad third impressions
Fri, Jun 4th 2010 3:16p Ed Brill (and for those who are wondering, the helmet is because she has brachycephaly, aka a "flat head" in her soft spot. The helmet helps re-shape the head.) [read] Keywords:
iPad first impressions
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 7:59p Ed Brill As Alistair Rennie put it to me earlier today, "so you used the 'I need it for work' excuse, too, huh?" Yes, I bought an iPad yesterday, and it is a timely purchase, with conferences next week and the week after. I've not been an iPhone user, so this whole thing is going to be a new experience for me. Should be exciting. However, I do have to say some things about initial impression. 1) Out of the box, it's a brick. You have to connect it to a desktop to do anything. Oddly, it was m [read] Keywords: lotus
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ZDNet/Sam Diaz: Forrester: Email may be here to stay but it definitely needs an overhaul
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 11:40a Ed Brill Sam Diaz writes about Forrester analyst Ted Schadler's observations at Forrester's IT Forum:Until yesterday, I had always imagined the communications nirvana of the future as some sort of user interface that was free of the unruliness and ineffectiveness of email. But during a session at the Forrester IT Forum, I came to accept that email is here to stay. Why? Forrester analyst Ted Schadler said it best: until there's something 10 times better and 10 times cheaper, there will be no reason to [read] Keywords: ibm
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June adventures: DNUG, Enterprise 2.0, IBM Mobility Day, and something Chile
Mon, May 31st 2010 8:50p Ed Brill After a flurry of travel in April/May, I was trying to limit my summertime travel to at most a few days every other week....seems like that went out the window. At least it flew away with some cool upcoming destinations in mind... June 7-9, I will be at the Deutsche (German) Notes User Group in Berlin, Germany. Kevin Cavanaugh, Chris Crummey and I will deliver the IBM keynote, with some news and previews, and I have other sessions on Notes/Domino strategy and a mobility update. This will b [read] Keywords: collaboration
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First time in eleven years
Fri, May 28th 2010 10:10p Ed Brill I've been a little quiet the last few weeks -- well the last month -- because of a fairly intense travel schedule, the excitement of our beta release of LotusLive Notes, and some changes in my organization within IBM Lotus. For the first time in 10+ years as a people manager, one of my staff left IBM for a new opportunity, and his last day was today. It's not appropriate on the blog to go into details of who or why or where. I do feel good that this individual chose to continue their career [read] Keywords: ibm
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IamLUG announces keynote speaker and IBM sponsorship
Wed, May 26th 2010 11:10p Ed Brill Looks like summer 2010 is shaping up to have another round of great conferences and events. IamLUG is back for a 2nd year, again in St. Louis in August. The IamLUG blog announced the event's keynote speaker and sponsor details earlier this week...We are pleased to have Doug Cox, Vice President of Development and Support, providing the 2010 keynote for IamLUG. Doug Cox is Vice President, Development and Support, Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal, responsible for the strategy and development o [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Information Week: Email is making you stupid
Sun, May 23rd 2010 2:20p Ed Brill Information Week dives into the topic of why email is giving us all organizational ADD, and what you can do about it...Researchers at the University of Michigan found that productivity dropped as much as 40 percent when subjects tried to do two or more things at once. The switching exacts other costs too--mistakes and burnout. One of the study's authors, David Meyer, asserts bluntly that quality work and multitasking are incompatible. Brian Bailey and Joseph Konstan of the University of Minne [read] Keywords: email
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OpenNTF video: Ten-minutes on some great new projects
Sun, May 23rd 2010 9:16a Ed Brill Niklas Heidloff has posted a video highlighting some of the great new projects on OpenNTF.org. They include: Wildfire from ISW, which is a sidebar plug-in that connects to a variety of social networking tools, including Lotus Connections, Twitter, Facebook, etc. 3d history thumbnail viewer, a carousel-like navigator for Notes history A series of XPages apps for interaction with Blackberry, iPhone, and Android devices An import/export control for Domino Designer, which features easy access [read] Keywords: connections
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Information Week: Microsoft’s Eating Caviar in the Cloud
Sun, May 23rd 2010 9:09a Ed Brill Good to see that Microsoft really understands the concepts of 24/7 availability and system redundancy in 2010. Apparently, they've decided none of their MSDN bloggers need to be on the air for a full week!This week, Microsoft is upgrading their MSDN blogging platform. For the next week, bloggers will not be able to make new posts unless they were queued before the upgrade started. Also, nobody will be able to make posts on new or existing blog entries. So here we have one whole week of downtime [read] Keywords: blogging
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ibm.com: Achieving high availability with IBM Lotus iNotes
Fri, May 14th 2010 8:00a Ed Brill Very strong article with in-depth explanations of the option available to make Domino Web Access highly available. The document includes three sections: Domino configurations for high availability Creating a load-balancer assistance service Analyzing performance I think I've said this a few times now, I think DWA/iNotes is sort of an unsung hero in Notes/Domino-land. As I have asked at many of the last LCTYs, about 70% of customers deploy DWA, with some 10-20% indicating that they have full- [read] Keywords: domino
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Roger Rowan: Lotus Notes and Email Alternatives
Wed, May 12th 2010 10:10a Ed Brill A few weeks ago, Roger Rowan commented on this blog that he had done a financial analysis of whether it made sense for his company to migrate from Lotus Notes/Domino to Google Apps or other alternatives. Roger kindly offered to post that document for sharing, which he has now done. I read it, and it reads like a solid, unbiased, easy-to-understand conclusion:At any given time you can find variations in the numbers however at the end of the day if you look fairly at all the alternatives you' [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM’s 2nd app on the iTunes app store, LotusLive Meetings
Mon, May 10th 2010 8:16p Ed Brill Curses wifi-less airplane -- Darren beat me to it! Earlier today, IBM's 2nd app on the Apple iTunes app store went live -- a mobile viewer for LotusLive Meetings.Use the online meeting features of LotusLive Engage right from your iPhone! Join a Web meeting, chat with attendees and view shared content - all from your iPhone! Participants with 3G or Wi-Fi coverage can experience simultaneous voice and data for a full meeting experience on the phone.This new app was a collaborative effort within [read] Keywords: ibm
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Apples, Gardens, and Dragon Dumplings, or my week in Silicon Valley
Fri, May 7th 2010 1:38a Ed Brill I had an intense three days in San Francisco and the Bay area, ostensibly here for Web 2.0 Expo but in the end deciding that my time had better uses. I was indeed at Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday, but other than some digerati interactions and a few interesting customer/prospect conversations, I didn't get much out of it. The conference did not quite seem to have a clear focus, and I say that with respect to the organizers (having been one of the advisory board members). They received over 1000 sess [read] Keywords: ibm
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More on the Gist plug-in for Lotus Notes 8
Wed, May 5th 2010 2:46p Ed Brill Back on April 15, Gist announced the availability of their plug-in for Lotus Notes. They're thisclose to having the Mac version ready too, I am running it and it works great. The thing is, I still get the question of "what is Gist and why do I care?" Gist CEO T.A. McCann posted a great presentation on Slideshare that will answer that very question for you. Take a look: Gist for lotus notes publicView more presentations from T.A. McCann. I'd venture to guess if you were using Gist thi [read] Keywords: domino
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Today’s lesson: Face to face partnering still critically important
Tue, May 4th 2010 12:07a Ed Brill Sometimes, the relative isolation of working in a home office is a very good thing. When I'm not on the road, the ability to skip the commute and focus on the work is hugely beneficial. The flexibility, comfort of being at home, and most importantly, ability to be remote from any IBM center of gravity, are all key parts of my career success. I often wonder if I could go back and work in a "traditional" office environment after ten years of home office setup. This week, though, I'm spending [read] Keywords: domino
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Farewell, Notes/Domino 6.5
Fri, Apr 30th 2010 3:18p Ed Brill Well, today's the day. Notes/Domino 6.5, and thus the 6.x release of the product, have reached their end of service date. IBM promises to provide standard support for our commercial software for a minimum of five years; in the case of Notes/Domino 6.x, that support ran for seven and a half. Our support engineers will not simply hang up the phone if you call with a 6.5 question next week, and extended support is available for a couple of years more, in a variety of options. My second tour [read] Keywords: domino
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CIO.com: Google to Live or Die in LA?
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 9:02p Ed Brill Wow, could it be a mis-match between hype and reality?The cash-strapped City of Los Angeles government may have shunned Microsoft for Google's cloud-based apps, but an April 13 inter-departmental letter indicates that performance issues with Google Apps have consistently frustrated pilot users.And what has frustrated those users? Let's look at the City memo:At the meeting many of the departments expressed concerns about both the performance and the functionality of the new system. Performance c [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Kevin Cavanaugh video on CIO Zone
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 2:54p Ed Brill The CIOZone website has recently posted a number of video interviews with IBM Lotus executives from Lotusphere 2010. The messages are thus a few months old, but are good reinforcements for what we talked about at this year's conference. For example, my boss Kevin Cavanaugh spent twelve minutes talking about Collaboration Agenda, Symphony and IT budgets, and other topics related to our business: [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Have you been following the why does Howard Stern use Notes discussion?
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 1:51p Ed Brill A few weeks ago, the Twitterati noticed that a netcast called "This Week in Technology" was taunting Howard Stern over his use of Lotus Notes. Stern has been a long-time Lotus technology customer, but TWiT-casters Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani had a nice laugh over it. Well, Howard responded on-air and took Jeff Jarvis to task. Howard invited IBM Lotus Vice President Jeff Schick onto his show to discuss why Howard has made the right choice, and Jeff offered to Jeff Jarvis to chec [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption now available
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 1:01p Ed Brill Today's guest blogger is Arthur Fontaine, Program Director for Lotus Domino application development and Lotus Protector. He's excited about Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption, which is now available. He even trusts Lotus Protector enough to offer his email address up in this blog posting... Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption launches today, April 27, and is the second member of the Lotus Protector security platform. Like Protector for Mail Security, IBM's spam/content filter, this new of [read] Keywords: domino
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Thank you for coming up
Fri, Apr 23rd 2010 8:30a Ed Brill While there were a lot of interesting conversations yesterday at the Lotusphere Comes to You in Toronto/Markham, I heard one phrase over and over: "Thank you for coming up". Canadians, you are so polite, but look -- you are all very welcome, there's no need to thank me. As customers and partners in the Lotus software ecosystem, it is you I should be (and do) thank -- for your business, for your support, for your feedback, and for your hospitality. I can't count the number of times I've be [read] Keywords: ibm
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Tungle.me plug-in for Lotus Notes now available
Thu, Apr 22nd 2010 9:24a Ed Brill This morning at Lotusphere Comes to You here in Toronto, Tungle CEO Marc Gingras is joining me during the keynote to announce availability of the Tungle.me plug-in for Lotus Notes. As I've mentioned earlier, I've been using the beta plug-in for a few months and it totally rocks. This is really changing the way I schedule external meetings, for the better, and in fact you can see my calendar availability now on my own tungle.me page. It's a huge time-saver, and it cuts through all the workflow [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Protector for Mail Security is certified by ICSA Labs
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 5:50p Ed Brill I didn't know about this but it came up in a customer interaction today and I thought it was worth sharing. ICSA Labs does testing and certification of anti-spam solutions, including Lotus Protector for Mail Security.CSA Labs certified anti-spam solutions are tested 365-days a year for effectiveness and false positives. Monthly Anti-Spam Short reports, or MASS reports, are published following the previous month's testing. Certified anti-spam solutions are tested annually against the remaining [read] Keywords: ibm
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ZDNet Australia: IBM’s Lotus not dead yet
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 11:52p Ed Brill Provocative headline and some assertions you and I might not agree with, but Longhaus's Peter Carr takes a look at the Australian market and trends/transitions in cloud computing:Within this context, point victories within a holistic collaboration suite are no longer a basis for claiming market victories. For example, if one is to point a finger at the changing fortunes of Lotus for email, then based on our experience in the collaborative portal market of late, one must also point their finger a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Gist plug-in for Lotus Notes now available
Thu, Apr 15th 2010 12:01p Ed Brill At the Lotusphere Comes to You in Palisades, New York, Gist CEO T.A. McCann is joining IBM's Bart Lautenbach and Chris Crummey in the keynote to announce availability of the Gist plug-in for Lotus Notes. The plug-in is Windows only for now, but they are working on the Mac support aggressively as well. TechCrunchIT is covering the news this morning:Gist, a recently launched web service that aims to organize your communication streams, is bringing its tool to Lotus Notes with a new plugin. Gis [read] Keywords: domino
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Apple features Lotus Notes Traveler in April iPhone for business
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 4:18p Ed Brill This is nice to see: Taken from Apple's April, 2010 "iPhone Apps for Business" newsletter. As for Notes Traveler and iPad, David Leedy has a pretty comprehensive blog entry about it. It works, we know it works, we are driving towards formal support ASAP. Oh and ibm.com will have a new page about Lotus Notes Traveler next week, featuring all the updates we've made to Traveler in the last several months. I'll blog the update. Link: apple.com: iPhone in Business > (find the A [read] Keywords: domino
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Dion Hinchliffe at LCTY Washington
Tue, Apr 13th 2010 4:14p Ed Brill Cool guest speaker at the April 29 Lotusphere Comes to You in Washington DC: Dion is a well-known Web 2.0 expert specializing in business strategy and enterprise architecture. A worthwhile date on the LCTY tour for sure. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Guest blog-Mike Masterson: Domino on Amazon EC2 web service
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 11:13p Ed Brill Many of you have met Mike Masterson, Product Manager for Notes/Domino application development, over the last 18 months or so. Today, Mike would like to talk about the formal unveiling of Lotus Domino on the Amazon EC2 cloud. --Ed Domino, we have ignition. It should come as no surprise that bringing up Domino as an application server in the cloud was, more or less, a non-event. Domino has always embraced technology revolutions and with its long-standing support for Linux and remote adminis [read] Keywords: admin
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Next month’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
Sun, Apr 11th 2010 9:40p Ed Brill We're only three weeks away from Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, running May 3 to 6 at the Moscone Center. I will be at the conference as a result of my participation on the conference advisory board, and plan to be in sessions and at the IBM booth in the expo itself. Working on the conference session selection was interesting. I have been part of the conference team for Lotusphere for many years, but at least for Lotusphere, I know the topics and/or proposed presenters already. Here, I wad [read] Keywords: ibm
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More Lotusphere Comes to You dates added in the US
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 4:31p Ed Brill The IBM Lotus team in the US has added several more dates for Lotusphere Comes to You, while others have changed dates. Cities that have been added include Minneapolis, where I'll be on May 13. Other events now extend all the way to early June. Check out the full calendar: Link: ibm.com: IBM Lotusphere Comes to You 2010 - North America > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Network Computing: Cisco Inbox Puts Outlook In Its Crosshairs
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 3:30p Ed Brill It's interesting to see this article, since when Cisco first acquired PostPath, their whole stated angle was that it was a drop-in replacement for Outlook. Perhaps they've found, as we did, that the reality of doing that isn't quite as simple as it sounds, and that also, Outlook's power is waning as consumers have moved to web-based mail with more and more corporate users doing the same (especially "email only" users):Cisco hopes its customers will embrace the WebEx Mail browser client instead [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Darren Duke: Introducing Lotus Alloy - if your company uses SAP you NEED to see Alloy
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 1:30p Ed Brill We held a design review for Alloy, the IBM/SAP integration solution for Notes, a couple of weeks ago at our Massachusetts Labs. Darren Duke was one of the partners in attendance, and he summarized the meeting -- and the solution benefits of Alloy -- quite well:So what is Alloy? Well basically Alloy is a (somewhat) extensible framework for surfacing SAP workflows (approvals, rejections, etc) and/or SAP reports via the Lotus Notes 8.0.2 and higher standard client. "Workflows? But Darren, Notes d [read] Keywords: domino
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Yesterday’s Lotusphere Comes to You Online: Notes/Domino Strategy session
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 5:05p Ed Brill Thank you to the hundreds of you who joined us yesterday for the LotusUserGroup.org Lotusphere Comes to You Online session on the Notes and Domino family strategy. I'm always amazed when I deliver this presentation at how much is going on in the Notes/Domino product family. If you'd like the slides from the presentation, be sure to log into LotusUserGroup.org and visit the forum thread on LCTY Online. You can also see the questions from the chat -- I answered most of them during the webcast [read] Keywords: domino
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The travel industry is the best and worst at customer service
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 9:51p Ed Brill < Rant follows > I was reading Luis Benitez's tweets tonight where he said: and I thought, gee, what's so surprising about a lying airline gate agent? It's happened to all of us. For me, it was that time I was at New York Laguardia trying to get to Boston; American blamed our six-hour delay on "weather", while US Airways and Delta were flying the same route with only minor delays. The giveaway was the time we boarded a plane and then deplaned a few minutes later, only to board a d [read] Keywords: agent
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