Location : Lotusphere 2008
While on a break from the sessions, I poked around the other areas of the Dolphin. I think that most people were in the Product Showcase, because the Innovations Lab was nearly void of people. Which made it nice to stroll past the pedestals.
I know that there is only a day left for the conference, but take the time and engage the people in this lab. I talked to one person showing how IBM has a project to make tagging more fun. It is supposed to assist people with tagging their information and creating better tags. Based on the gaming community, "Tag-It" is a game that they created to collect tags for items which will improve search.
Strolling a little ways down the aisle, I came to the pedestal "Lotus Symphony Web Integration and Beyond." I spent a lot of time here. Dr. Hironobu Takagi was especially generous with his time, explaining how he and his team are working to extend Lotus Symphony to Web 2.0 applications and providing a lightweight, Flash editor to a web application. Think of it as a "competitor" to Google apps. I never thought about extending Symphony that was.
While I was impressed with that, it was his associate's demo that broadened my perspective. Legally blind, she was contributing to an on-line presentation using a reader and her PC. The reader was speaking to her, letting her know where her cursor was positioned, and giving her feedback on her options. The fact that she was able to surf the internet, find the application, and modify it was truly amazing. I never thought about how the visually impaired interacted with the internet. She was adding value to the presentation, using Symphony over the web.
Broaden your horizons and check out the Innovations Lab.
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Comment posted by Keith Smillie01/24/2008 05:31:57 AM
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When I worked for IBM many moons ago I was taught PL/X by a man called Barry who was totally blind.
I can remember him chastising me for not indenting my code properly!
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