LepoLand - A Blog by Alan Lepofsky

Hmm, Haven’t I Seen That Logo Before?

Alan Lepofsky — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:45:00 -0400

I've got an idea, let's put three people in a circle. ;-)
Know of any others that look similar?

Fix Your $400 iPhone 4’s Boo-Boo for $5

Alan Lepofsky — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:15:00 -0400

Antenn-aid is designed to be placed over the lower left corner of the antenna.

Visit the Antenn-aid website...

The Greatest Vacation Ever

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:15:00 -0400

Go to http://www.gapadventures.com , under Region you'll see GAP is offering some pretty awesome destinations, Far Far Away...

Packing for both Tatooine and Hoth on the same trip is going to be tough.

Calling All Developers. Extend Enterprise Applications With Social Features

Alan Lepofsky — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:45:00 -0400

Are you looking to extend your application development knowledge to include open internet technologies such as JSON, WebHooks, Activitystrea.ms and PubSubHubbub?

Would you like to help your company or your customers by integrating existing enterprise systems with today's "2.0" social technologies?

Are you free next Wed?

If you answered yes to any or all of the above, then join us Wed July 21st at 9:30 PST for Integrating Enterprise Applications with Socialtext.

Members of our Engineering team will be providing an overview of Socialtext Connect, introducing you to some of the technologies supported, and then showing examples of the integration and automation possibilities.

>>> Click Here To Register <<<

Learn how to integrate enterprise applications with Socialtext

Should Nikon Be Paying Lotus Royalties?

Alan Lepofsky — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:45:00 -0400

Firefox 4 Option For Tabs On Top, Like Lotus Notes

Alan Lepofsky — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:50:42 -0400

I've been hearing a lot this week about how Firefox 4 will be providing an option to put tabs at the top of the screen. Well, once again Notes which is always slagged for its UI was ahead of the curve.

All kidding aside, this is a good video about UI design:

A short video on SharePoint Integration

Alan Lepofsky — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:00:47 -0400

The video below shows several Socialtext and SharePoint integration points, including:

Adding microblogging to SharePoint via Socialtext Signals
Showing SharePoint events (such as when colleagues add files to a SharePoint file library) in the Socialtext Activity Stream
Accessing Socialtext Workspaces from within SharePoint
Searching the Socialtext People Directory from within SharePoint

When Hobbits Demo Software

Alan Lepofsky — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:45:00 -0400

Photo Credit: Alex Dunne

Adding Some Spice To The Old Acronym Soup

Alan Lepofsky — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:30:00 -0400

SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, LPTA, iCal, vCard, SIP, XMPP, and on and on goes list of standards used by enterprise collaboration products over the last decade. But now as the open web begins to work its way into the business world, a new generation of standards and protocols are emerging.

A few of the most popular ones include:

Activity Streams - An extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around the web
Oauth - An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications
OStatus - Lets people on different social networks follow each other
PubSubHubbub - Provide near-instant notifications of change updates
Twitter Annotations - Annotations represent structured metadata about the tweet. Note: This model can be used beyond Twitter.
Webhooks - A web application implementing WebHooks will POST a message to a URL when certain things happen

I'm just a marketing guy and don't pretend to understand these things technically, but what I do know is that things are changing. Are you evolving your skill set to include the tools of the open web? Which others should I add to the list above?

Social Needs To Be Layer, Not A Feature

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:15:00 -0400

Last week at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee gave a keynote titled "The Social Layer." I'll link to the slides below, but the general idea is that application silos create walled communities, the exact thing we're trying to avoid with social software. You don't want your HR, Sales, Marketing and Engineering teams only talking to each other, yet that is exactly what happens if you add social tools to each standalone enterprise application. Instead, you want communication to happen transparently so that more people can participate in and benefit from the conversations.

Photo credit: Ricky Romero

By making social a layer, we (the vendors) can create solutions that bridge the gap between islands of applications, allowing you (the customers) to work in a far more efficient and effective way. We're (the industry) just starting to make this happen, but I hope that by working together we can avoid the integration issues that have plagued enterprise applications for decades. In my next post I'll discuss the standards that are being put in place to make this vision a reality, and how we're using them to develop Socialtext Connect.

The Social Layer

View more presentations from Socialtext.