InfoWorld: IBM to add blogging tools to Workplace

July 12 2005

IBM Alphaworks is now featuring a Weblog preview for IBM Workplace 2.6....as covered in InfoWorld:

IBM on Tuesday revealed plans for two new corporate blogging tools it plans to add to the forthcoming Version 2.5 of its Workplace collaboration platform and Workplace Designer development tools.

In addition to releasing details of the Workplace blog offering, Big Blue made available a free preview of the blogging tool that will ship with Workplace 2.5 later this year. The trial download can be accessed at IBM's alphaWorks site.

Version 2.5 of Workplace will ship with a Weblog component that allows users to create blogs with features such as archiving, permalinks, comments, search, and syndication, according to IBM officials. ...

For the Eclipse-based development tool Workplace Designer, due in Version 2.5 in August, IBM is adding a fully built blog component that can be deployed to Workplace or customized for developers. ...

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino already offer blogging and blog reading tools.
That last bit was meant to convey that tools are available for blogging and blog reading on Notes/Domino.  But you probably already know that. ;)

Link: InfoWorld: IBM to add blogging tools to Workplace >  (Thanks, Bruce)

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  1. 1  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 7/12/2005 10:45:15 PM

    Cool, but are there any screenshots available? I could not find any (other than install and config) on the AlphaWorks site. I think they'd get more traction if they showed what the product looks like :-)

  1. 2  Michael  | 7/13/2005 1:22:11 AM

    or maybe better not to show it...yet ;)

    Btw, looking forward to see the blog template for workplace designer

  1. 3  Fred Janssen coming soon | 7/13/2005 1:48:33 AM

    > IBM Lotus Notes and Domino already offer blogging and blog reading tools.

    Can anyone point into the direction of a good Notes/Domino based blog reader that will work on the client and server (iSeries) side?

  1. 4  Declan Lynch www.qtzar.com | 7/13/2005 4:01:08 AM

    I'm quietly working on a WorkPlace Designer version of BlogSphere, learning as I go along it's slow but starting to come together.

  1. 5  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 7/13/2005 7:13:40 AM

    "forthcoming Version 2.5" - I thought 2.5 was out already and that 2.6 (or is that 2.5.1) was coming soon?

    @3 - You're after an RSS reader for Notes? Steve Castledine { Link } does one of these called Project DX Feed Reader, details here { Link }

    Not sure how an RSS reader needs to work with the server side though, or do you just want to replicate it around so your "unread marks" can be maintained? Feed Reader should handle that. I see your website is "coming soon", if you need any help getting started, give me a shout offline.

    @4 - Good stuff, I look forward to seeing it on openwps.org or whatever Bruce calls it :O)

  1. 6  Bruce Elgort http://www.bruceelgort.com | 7/13/2005 7:48:33 AM

    @Ben,

    It's { Link } :-)

  1. 7  Ted Stanton http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=416 | 7/13/2005 8:05:27 AM

    { Link }

  1. 8  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 7/13/2005 8:15:35 AM

    @7 thanks Ted, I had that originally in the blog entry but must have lost it. I re-added it to the entry.

  1. 9  Alex Hernandez http://alexhernandez.blogspot.com | 7/13/2005 8:25:49 AM

    wow, Looking forward to include it in the christmas gift list.

    .::AleX::.

  1. 10  Paul Mooney http://www.pmooney.net | 7/13/2005 11:25:02 AM

    I reckon we can slowly predict the movement of the Lotus blogs to workplace back-ends... My pc running my site at home may require a serious upgrade ;-)

  1. 11  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net/bensblog.nsf | 7/13/2005 12:45:54 PM

    @10 - Agreed, I just know I may be buying a workplace/portal host sometime soon...

  1. 12  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 7/13/2005 1:48:32 PM

    @10 I don't think we have a single machine capable of running a Workplace Back End right now. Maybe one day :-)

  1. 13  Mike Gotta http://mikeg.typepad.com/ | 7/13/2005 7:54:18 PM

    What's interesting here is the concept of evolving blogging from a "tool" perspective to a mindset that blogging has an application layer but needs a service orientation that connects into related infrastructure.

  1. 14  Nathan T. Freeman  | 7/14/2005 2:46:56 AM

    I wonder if we can get a spec on IBM's blog that would allow us to match functionality/compatibility in a tool like Blogsphere? I can't see much reason to deploy the complexity of Webshere for something that can be accomplished in Domino. (Of course, I've only made that observation about 60 billion times, so that's no surprise to anyone.)

  1. 15  Ben Poole http://www.benpoole.com | 7/14/2005 5:18:47 AM

    Nathan, as I understand it the Workplace weblog offering is clearly aimed fair and square at the intranet / corporate weblog level where the infrastructure is already set up. Surely no-one would set up Workplace from scratch purely to support weblogging? And no-one would ever choose a Workplace system over Blogsphere for their *personal* weblog would they?

  1. 16  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net/bensblog.nsf | 7/14/2005 10:37:33 AM

    @15 - Depends if they want the comments to render properly in IE or not ;O)

    (yes, i know it's supposed to be fixed now but there's loads of affected blogs)

  1. 17  David Bell  | 7/15/2005 6:20:09 PM

    Lots of people out there without Notes / Domino. I doubt anyone would do Domino just for blogging (suppose its a little easier than doing Workplace for it).

    There are those who will deploy the Workplace application platform and oh, it has blogging as an application built right in.