November 5th, 2008
Socialtext Widget Wednesday - How about some Lotus Widgets?
Announcing Socialtext Launches Widget Wednesday: a Distributed Hackathon for Widgets & Mashups
- Wednesday on November 12, a distributed hackathon for widgets and mashups. Socialtext partners Box.net, Denodo, Newsgator, Meebo, Six Apart, Slideshare and others will participate in the hackathon to develop OpenSocial standard-based widgets and mashups on the Socialtext platform.
- Socialtext also announced that it will release all of the widgets it develops under an Open Source license -- to help partners, customers and developer community members create mashups leveraging Socialtext's best-in-class REST API.
That second part really excites me! I can't count how many times I demoed some really cool plugin for Notes or Sametime which was developed inside IBM, but then was not allowed to share it with partners or customers due to the IBM lawyers!
Now of course I'd love to see Lotus widgets for Socialtext. Perhaps an iNotes Ultralight widget, a Domino view widget, a Sametime buddy widget, Connections widgets, etc. We support the OpenSocial standard, so perhaps some awesome Lotus developer could crank out a few OpenSocial Lotus widgets! Get coding!
Socialtext Dashboard.
