Beyond The Yellow Bubble

 It is now exactly one week since I arrived home from my first lotusphere.  Over the past week (and the week before) I have given a lot of thought to project Vulcan and the potential it offers to redefine our approach to Notes development, especially for those applications that involve (or could involve) an aspect of knowledge management and/or collaboration.  Prior to Lotusphere I had already been doing some work on developing an idea on how a modern Notes application could "do collaboration".  What Lotusphere (and project Vulcan) provided was some clearer insight into what I have been trying to do.  It also provided the chance to redesign my approach so it could be more consistent with what Project Vulcan promises to deliver.
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I am present;y working to consolidate all these thoughts in the form of a new project I am calling Project Klingon.  I have just published my first YouTube video which demonstrates some of my early thinking on how to build a Notes collaboration application using Notes/Domino 8.5.1 and XPages.  It is not Project Vulcan, only IBM can deliver on something as massive as that.  Project Klingon represents some ideas on things that can be done today to implement some of the ideas contained within the Project Vulcan vision.  Ideas that may allow you to dramatically improve the collaborative capabilities of Notes applications.  It is early days and I am still exploring options of what I may do with Project Klingon.  For now it is the perfect project for me to learn more about XPages and Collaboration.  Your own thoughts, view, and ideas are always most welcome.
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A working example of the prototype should be available on my yellowverse.com Web site soon.  Ultimately it will be the engine that drives the entire site (at least until Project Vulcan arrives).