Gist plug-in for Lotus Notes now available

April 15 2010

At the Lotusphere Comes to You in Palisades, New York, Gist CEO T.A. McCann is joining IBM's Bart Lautenbach 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. Gist offers services that help you keep tabs on the people in your professional network. The service's web interface allows you to see past messages and attachments from each contact, news about their company, and their recent messages on services like Twitter. Gist also offers an Outlook plugin that shares similarities with Xobni.

The Lotus Notes plugin will track individual and company profile information as emails are sent/received and calendar events are created and will bring in professional network information to the inbox from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, a number of blogs, and 50,000 news sites. The plugin also uses Lotus Notes' Live Text technology to give detailed profile information anywhere an email address appears. If you are using the Gist Lotus Notes plugin, you can also connect Gist to your Gmail account.
I've been using Gist since Lotusphere and it is my new clairvoyant.  Really helpful in learning more about people you work with or plan to work with.  In fact, T.A. and I used Gist and Twitter to help him get into an amazing restaurant last night in New York.  I'm sure he'll be repaying me when I'm next in his neck of the woods :-)

Anyway, check it out.  Another great plug-in for Notes.  From reading the tweets this morning, many of you have already.

Link: TechCrunchIT: Gist Launches A Xobni-Like Plugin For Lotus Notes >

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  notesdomino lotusnotes 8.5 lotus  Add/View Comments [6]

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  1. 1  Shane Mac http://www.gist.com | 4/15/2010 11:45:45 AM

    Awesome write up! Thanks for the kind words and it is so true, knowing more about who you know is key to better business and better relationships.

  1. 2  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 4/15/2010 11:57:12 AM

    I have been using Gist for some time and I am happy to see the Notes beta plugin finally go gold. It has been valuable in gaining more information about a contact before and during calls.

    For those that have never still heard of Gist, I did a screencast of the web capabilities and have the Lotus one coming now.

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  1. 3  joe notes  | 4/16/2010 4:40:06 AM

    Upload my email to some site?

    No thanks.

    j.

  1. 4  Luis  | 4/16/2010 7:51:02 AM

    Any chance to have this working in Ubuntu?

    Maybe it is using some windows apis or something like that....

  1. 5  Giorgio Blangetti  | 4/19/2010 11:22:50 AM

    The problem with toys such as Gist and Xobini is that they do what a mail program such as Lotus Notes should do without the need of third party plugins.

    Currently, the Achilles heel is that it is useless to have a great social intranet, perhaps based on Lotus Connections, where most interactions are with customers, suppliers and partners.

    Gist solves (or rather, copy the solution from Xobini) to a real problem, that Lotus could not want to saw and will try to solve with project Vulcan.

    Now the question is: how IBM is truly interested in providing open APIs and standards protocols?