12/16/2006

Microsot Patents Mood Stamps For Email

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Looking through my RSS feeds this morning I came across an article on SlashDot that mentions that Microsoft has patented 'Emoti-Flags for Email Messages'. Here's the abstract from the patent form :

Email emotiflags are described. A collection of emotiflags, each including a graphical icon and a text tag is maintained. Custom emotiflags may be defined by a user. While composing an email message, a user may associate an emotiflag with the email message such that when the email message is sent, the emotiflag is sent with the email message. Email messages may be received that include emotiflags.


I wonder if 'Mood Stamps' in Lotus Notes would be considered prior art or if I could patent the concept of mood stamps for blog entries.

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12/14/2006

Ytria Release New Versions Of Their Tools

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If you develop Notes applications and your haven't used Ytria Tools then you don't know what your missing and if you do use Ytria Tools then make sure you have an active maintence agreement and upgrade to the latest versions.

Ytria make a number of tools that are really handy for the Lotus Notes developer and administrator out there, like ScanEz which allows you to examine and change the contents of a notes database, or like ActionBarEz which lets you apply standard actionbar preferences across all views and forms in a few easy steps or SignEz which allows developers sign databases without the need for an admin client you'll find that these tools really make life easy for the admin or developer and save a lot of time.

I've been using these tools in the development of BlogSphere V3 and over the next while I'll be putting up some blog entries for each tool and show how they saved me time.

So if you use Ytria Tools then make sure you get the upgrade and if not then make sure you tell your boss to reserve you a bit of next years budget to purchase them. They'll pay for themselves in no time.

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12/14/2006

Hannover View Icon Changes

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Mary Beth Raven has revealed some of the proposed view icons for the Hannover release of IBM Lotus Notes. The color pallet is definitly a bit softer with plenty of Web 2.0 pastels but have the icons lost their ability to grab the users attention? Make sure you have your say over on her blog.

A picture named M2

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