Lotus announced a LinkedIn widget - my thoughts and a dialog box you need to be aware of
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I received a PR email from Lotus announcing widgets for both LinkedIn and TripIt. I was happy to see they made it out of internal IBM testing and to the public.
So the LinkedIn widget is for Lotus Notes 8.01 and higher and sits in the sidebar. Here is what it does:
- It sits in the sidebar
- It does not match up to your current contacts
- It does not show in business cards for Sametime
- It does not give all the function of LinkedIn, just some updates
- It shows my profile picture, my title and the number of connections I have
- It does allow me to click anyone's name and see their profile and I can drag the link to their profile into an email
- It does not allow me to email that person or match that to my NAB
So in saying all of this I was hoping for some tight integration to really bridge the gap between the public social networks and my contacts. This is still missing from my personal address book and Connections. But before I rant there, when installing the widget it does take a HTTPs connections, so you users will get a cross certificate prompt. Something to be aware of before you force this out via the Widget catalog in your environment.
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On Thursday, July 16th, 2009 by Chris Miller
