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It simply amazes me that this still isn't fixed, and that my internal IBM contacts continue to ask me why I am not on their Sametime server. Can someone please correct me if I am wrong?

BleedYellow.com yesterday launched Squawk, a Twitter-like microblogging / lightweight social networking solution that integrates with the BleedYellow.com profiles based on Domino Xpages. I'll be live blogging the OGS there instead of twitter. Join the fun if you want.

I love Chris Toohey. I really do. In fact, he saved my butt this very morning by helping me correct some broken links in my blog entry. But he also posted this blog entry, which caused me a bit of hearburn, not because of him, but because of the technology he wrote about. Since I trust Chris implicitly, I got excited when I saw his entry about using Google Sync to publish his Notes Calendar to the web for internet users to see using my Blackberry as middleware. So I immediately signed up for a google account (no, I did not have one before because gmail is way inferior to Notes). I then started synchronizing my Notes cal to that Google cal. That was a week ago. First, I noticed that it wasn't synching everything. OK, no biggie. I can deal with that. It even told me that it couldn't sync everything because "another program" was (that'd be Notes). Fine, at least some were going through, so I left it going for a week. Interestingly, it was synching most (not all) of my new calendar entries. But I noticed it was draining my Blackberry battery, and I can't afford that at Lotusphere, so I decided to "sign out" of Google Sync on my Blackberry. It warned me that it would delete anything it had synched, so I looked for an option to NOT do that - no such option. So I figured, Google is smart, surely they wouldn't delete the entries that I created in Notes, right? WRONG. It wiped out 8 weeks of my appointments, and the Blackberry diligently sent cancellation notices on all of the meetings to the participants I had invited. Nice. Thanks Google (not so much).

But there is a (relatively) happy ending to this tale.  Since I am running the Notes 8.5 client and 8.5 mail template (on a Notes 8.0 server BTW), I simply went to my Notes calendar and clicked Add Calendar / Google Calendar, provided my credentials, and BAM, there are all of the Google calendar entries on my Notes calendar again. Thanks Lotus (sincerely).

In response to: Nice performance, what about putting the result as a prize for Partners ?

As Tim Kounadis indicated at the end of the session, you can bid for the Mona Lisa painting made at BDD Day by going to http://bdd.bleedyellow.com. Enter @Bid and the dollar amount. Winner will be announced at the reception Monday night.

Last year BleedYellow.com was a smash hit, and the community has continued to thrive over the past 12 months with over 3,000 members, 220 blogs, and 70 communities. This year, we have added some of Lotus 911's new social networking solutions onto the Bleed Yellow site to make it even better, including Squawk™ micro-blogging (including a widget for the Connections Home Page), Crowded Wisdom™ idea collaboration for site feedback, and the BleedYellow Marketplace™, where Lotus business partners can post their solutions for sale, consolidating many Lotus solutions into a single online store.

Feel free to leave a comment and let us know what you think, or register for an account and get involved!

Thanks to the whole team for working so diligently to enhance the community over the past few months.

Sincerely,
Scott

My mom, a most-of-the-time-workaholic herself, called me last night and was concerned about "how hard [I have] been working lately." Admittedly, I have had several 16, 20, and even 24 hour days of "work" over the past few weeks and I took very little time off for the holidays (and I continue to work today), but looking back on it, I don't resent it. Everyone else at Lotus 911 has been doing the same thing.

Lotusphere is our annual celebration of our passion for the amazing and transformative things that the Lotus brand of solutions can allow us to achieve. I know we are not alone. The cumulative energy of the six to twelve thousand of you that join us at this event every year somehow erases the sleep deprivation of the preceding weeks. The opportunity to show what we have done, see what you have done, and reaffirm the direction we are all heading provides more than enough motivation to keep doing it for another year.

Simply put, "this is what we do" - and I feel blessed to have the opportunity to do what we do. And in the evolving global "network of social networks," it is getting inreasingly infectious. So as we embark on this week together, thank you for being part of this community. If you share my sentiment, leave a comment so that my mother doesn't think I'm crazy.

Yes folks, that's an 87% disk space recovery (from the active production files). Your mileage may vary .Maybe we just have a lot of attachments, but the mere potential is worth the upgrade.

User	Before DAOS	After DAOS
Allen	66,664,348	13,369,344
Colin	121,686,570	27,262,976
Chris	504,170,773	115,867,648
David	660,534,209	158,859,264
Jennifer	124,751,321	44,302,336
Jimmy	7,821,658,977	796,917,760
Luz	237,849,503	26,738,688
Mike	320,268,903	49,283,072
Robert	38,714,523	17,563,648
Scott	2,025,744,098	214,433,792
Sheri	743,389,930	158,859,264
Ted	157,455,235	38,273,024
Tim	288,323,304	51,118,080
TOTAL	13,111,211,694	1,712,848,896
SAVINGS	11,398,362,798	87%

*** Update *** My oversight, not including the size of the DAOS store, which is about 7 GB. STILL, that is 4 GB back, and a 33% reduction in storage and from a sample of just 13 users. In a larger organization, this would almost certainly increase since more users would have more attachments in common.