my not well received thoughts on Lotus Connections for Blackberry
Tags :Blackberry Lotus Connections
Many of my fellow bloggers have posted and express excitement over Connections for Blackberry.
- Lotus Connections Blog
- Mitch Cohen (Curious Mitch)
- Gia Lyons of IBM
- Darren Adams of IBM posted beta screenshots
I, unfortunately, do not share the same enthusiasm. I have already let RIM know those thoughts through some surveys that I already provided.
Since this (see screenshot above) has been under development for such a long time, I expected one simple thing. I , without hesitation, expected all five services to be primed and ready. Only have a native Profiles and Dogears makes it useless for my suers to load. For the other 3 services, you have a link that launches a Blackberry browser session that you must log into once again. Humorously I see how Chris Whisonant of Lotus911 only pointed out connecting to BleedYellow via the new client.
Profiles and Activities are arguably the most important parts. But in my opinion, any hook into social software should expose all of the services, or just don't present them until they are ready. Accessing the Connections information via that tiny browser is a terrible experience and I don't want my users doing it. I have been getting deeper into the social networking over the past year or so and see Lotus attempting to make strides. But having a Facebook application for Blackberry that works better and offers more, makes the Lotus Connections one a hard sell.
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On Friday, May 9th, 2008 by Chris Miller
