The Quickr Picker Upper

January 25 2007

What must have been one of the best lines of the day.... at "ask the developers", the last question was about how Lotus could get into a different kind of social networking, promoting something like an online dating site.  After the laughs subsided, Art Thomas stood up and said "we're planning that, it'll be called 'The Quickr Picker-Upper'!".  What a great line, delivered 100% deadpan!

In two different post-conference events, there was much talk about community.  The community that resulted in 79 people showing up for the blogger birds-of-a-feather this morning -- more than any other BoF at the conference.  The community that provided great quotes which scrolled by on the big screen before the closing session (though I deliberately also picked some quotes from outside the normal Lotus blogging community).  The community that the core Lotusphere team embraces through best practices, speedgeeking, and barmy swan boat races.  And the community where I unexpectedly found myself at dinner with 30 other class individuals, not as sales executive talking to customer, but friend to friend.  That is what makes the long hours and intense decision-making and creativity and everything else all worth it.

Thank you all for a fantastic Lotusphere 2007.  I will have many more thoughts to share in the next few days, but for now, a suitcase must be packed.  Have a magical night...

Ed Brill | Lotusphere2007 Category:  Lotusphere2007  Add/View Comments [24]

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  1. 1  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 1/26/2007 12:04:18 AM

    I only heard Art's line, we couldn't hear the question. But it was apprecitated just the same.

    The magical evening was watching everyone that particiapted (that means even attended) sitting together and really finally unwinding.

  1. 2  Thilo Hamberger  | 1/26/2007 3:17:02 AM

    What I get from Lotusphere is that more and more is moving away from Domino to WAS. Are there any plans to make Domino a WAS plug-in? Otherwise we would have to maintain two completely different servers?!

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/26/2007 4:25:34 AM

    @2 a question that deserves more than the 30 seconds I can give it before leaving for the airport. but 1) can you say specifically what leads you to believe that more and more is moving away? Quickr, for example, is a Domino app.

    There is some work going on to simplify deployment/administration when using both Domino and WebSphere Portal. I need to review some Lotusphere presentations and see what I can post/link to to get into this further.

  1. 4  Andy Dempster http://www.cbrands.eu.com | 1/26/2007 4:40:05 AM

    Just sorry I couldn't be there Ed - have a safe journey home and hopefully see you next year!

  1. 5  Satwik Seshasai http://www.ibm.com/lotus/quickr | 1/26/2007 6:57:04 AM

    Just wanted to correct the spelling - it'll be the "Quickr Pickr Uppr" and it'll be coming to a demo near you, as soon as we can code up some smoke and mirrors! :-)

  1. 6  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 1/26/2007 8:16:01 AM

    Dinner last night was pretty surreal ... a huge collection of people who came together just for the sake of good food and company after 5 days of mindnumbing goodness :) Thanks to Kitty for making that happen!

  1. 7  Kevin http://kevinpresseault.blogspot.com | 1/26/2007 9:06:42 AM

    You know... now that I'm no longer working in the IT industry I gotta say that the thing I miss the most is this great community. You guys rock!

    And who knows... maybe I'll get a Domino server up and running at the church here so that will require a visit to next years Lotusphere :)

  1. 8  Bob Balfe http://blog.balfes.net | 1/26/2007 11:14:19 AM

    Art is also known for his version of a Lotus Wiki - Lotus Quiki. Funny thing is you could probably use it for the same name as Quikr Pickr Uppr!

  1. 9  Rod Westwood  | 1/26/2007 2:00:24 PM

    @5 Yeah, but is it quilted?

  1. 10  Esther Strom http://esthermstrom.blogspot.com | 1/26/2007 2:13:53 PM

    @8 The Quikr Pickr Uppr is what you use to find someone who is willing to engage in a Quiki... :o)

  1. 11  Nathan T. Freeman http://nathan.lotus911.com | 1/26/2007 3:17:46 PM

    Sorry I couldn't join everyone for that, but I think you can understand that after my wife arrived, I had some new priorities. ;-)

    Besides, all of you were undoubtedly tired of the sound of my voice by then. hehe

  1. 12  Kurt B http://www.onthehoist.com | 1/26/2007 6:53:25 PM

    Am I the only one who loves this Son of QP but can't understand why such an obscure name was chosen for this product?

  1. 13  Richard Schwartz http://www.rhs.com/poweroftheschwartz | 1/26/2007 7:34:49 PM

    @12: At least they didn't call it Q1kr ;-)

  1. 14  Stuart McIntyre http://macsfacts.vox.com | 1/28/2007 2:35:22 AM

    @11: Nah, never. Though I did get the impression that you should have prerecorded the "Have you looked on OpenNTF?" answer from the GURUpalooza..

    @12: Here in the UK, this name seems to have clicked with a lot of people, with some great blog and analyst feedback. For me, its a great indicator that the Lotus branding is back with a bang. Afterall, Domino was a pretty obscure name for the HTTP technology in R4.5 too, and look where it is now...

  1. 15  Kamal Rij  | 1/29/2007 11:53:13 AM

    Ed can you post some more technical details around Quickr and an approximate availability timeframe.

    This product will definately help stem the tide in organizations that are moving to Sharepoint from Quickplace.

    Am interested to see how Quickr can co-exist with Sharepoint.

  1. 16  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/29/2007 12:01:35 PM

    For now, the best resource is on { Link } . Availability is later this year (not sure if anything more specific was announced)

  1. 17  Rob Ingram http://www.dominoblog.com | 1/29/2007 2:23:59 PM

    @2 Not sure how you got any impression that Lotus are 'moving away from Domino'. Did you attend one of many Domino related breakouts where we described Domino 8 and Domino Next plans (numbered ID2xx in the schedule)? The Websphere related infratructure can be viewed as additive to, not a replacement for Domino. Its not likely that one application infrastucture can address the many diverse needs demanded by future collaboration. A great current example that people seem to understand is Sametime, which addresses realtime and Unified Communiactions needs, which are very different to what Domino is used for.

  1. 18  Thilo Hamberger  | 1/30/2007 3:18:06 AM

    Sorry, I was nowhere near Florida these days (though I wish I was). But I read different press releases and at { Link } vowe says that Quickr is built upon WAS and at { Link } they say that Quickr, Connections, Sametime and Activities need WAS to run. So to me all the cool new things need WAS.

  1. 19  Thilo Hamberger  | 1/30/2007 3:21:50 AM

    Correction, instead of Sametime I meant Sametime-Gateway.

  1. 20  Ben Poole http://benpoole.com | 1/30/2007 4:27:05 AM

    Thilo, Connections, Activities and Sametime Gateway require WAS, yes. I don't believe Quickr does though—after all, it's effectively the next version of Quickplace, with all that implies in terms of compatibility.

    Now, my German is pretty bad, but I read the heise article as saying that Quickr will co-exist / integrate with Websphere portal. I didn't see anything about Quickr requiring Websphere application server.

  1. 21  Volker Weber http://vowe.net/about | 1/30/2007 8:12:29 AM

    Alright, my english is better than your german.

    Quickr is both a Quickplace successor as a Teamspace successor. The first one runs on Domino, the other one on portal. Much likes the former Aptrix WCMS, it is two things with the same name.

  1. 22  Volker Weber http://vowe.net/about | 1/30/2007 8:16:58 AM

    Thilo, I was still confused when I wrote that article. I was under the impression you needed WAS to run and that is why I wrote "So weit dies erkennbar ist". As it turned out, I was mistaken, and I shall have this article corrected.

  1. 23  Thilo Hamberger  | 1/30/2007 9:56:24 AM

    No problem, Volker. But my second link also made that assumption and is a very strong advocate for WAS.

  1. 24  Volker Weber http://vowe.net/about | 1/30/2007 11:07:21 AM

    Thilo, I know Henry and Jörg, and I would suggest that they copied my mistake.