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A pre-Sphere tease from Nathan showed a glimpse of what he's been chipping away at for a while: an upcoming product from Lotus 911 called Carousel. It's an Eclipse component that, when included in a composite application, allows you to browse Notes/Domino data like you might browse your music library in iTunes. A few (quite a few, actually) lucky folks got to see this up close at our booth last week. The example included here (and in Nathan's tease) shows just one use for this: browsing an address book. But the demos that wowed booth visitors also included an augmented bookmarks database (allowing you to navigate your bookmarks via screenshots of each application's user interface) and - my favorite - integration of Carousel into a report database. In the latter example, Carousel is actually downloading a Google Charts URL, allowing report data to be browsed visually without actually storing the charts in the database itself. Pretty amazing stuff.

(cross-posted from TimTripcony.com)