Vor längerer Zeit beschäftigte mich das Thema Identitätsklau. Als Opfer eines vermeintlichen Betrügers, der sich kurzerhand meinen Namen und meine Adresse ausgeliehen hatte, schrieb ich einige Artikel zu diesem Thema. Schon damals bombardierte mich der vermeintliche Betrüger mit Aufforderungen per Mail, per Fax und per SMS, die Geschichte von meinem Blog zu entfernen. Andere Opfer…

Das ist Kathrin. Kathrin ist die deutsche Stimme des TomTom 940 Live. Volker hatte uns Kathrin netterweise zur Navigation quer durch Florida überlassen. Unser kleiner Nüvi wollte sich nicht auf den Einsatz in Übersee vorbereiten lassen, da nahm ich Kathrin gerne in Empfang. Kathrin kann alles. Kathrin findet nicht nur den Weg durch die USA.…

Two years ago our „After-Lotusphere-Trip“ ended up in Anna Maria island, where we found a beautifull place at the Cedar Cove and watched the Pelicans for a few days. This year we stranded in Boca Grande. And this is an unbelievable place. A small village with about 2500 citizens, no MacDonalds, no shopping malls. One…

Lotusphere ended with a remarkable Closing Session. I have seen just one other guest speaker on my 11 Lotuspheres that fascinated the crowd like Benjamin Zander this afternoon. Like Patrick Stewart a few years ago people were really touched when Benjamin Zander spoke and sang with us – and made 3.000 Lotusphere attendees sing „Freude,…

Just watched this brilliant Lotusphere video again. Then I stopped it at this point: Hey, this is a picture I took years ago at Lotusphere 2004! And they used it to build this video. Without asking! Hey guys, I want my royalties… [ad name=“ad-1″]

Wow, thats cold. Can´t remember temperatures below 0 Celsius at Lotusphere. But thats not the only thing that is different this year. No customer meetings, no partner meetings. I am out of business. Not that bad at all. Can see all whats happening here from a different and much more relaxed perspective. No need to…

So now it is official after the news leaked yesterday even before „Blogger´s Nachos & News Event„: IBM will implement ActiveSync protocol into Lotus Traveler. Timeframe is „this year“, which means end of 2009. So this is late, very late, but I do not want to complain too much. Finally IBM listened after last years…

There seem to be two main things people talk about in the hallways about this years news: XPages and „Click to Cloud“. While last years effort to meet the new requirements of a new IT world have been halfhearted this years announcments showed that IBM is serious about the cloud and the challenge to meet…

Yesterday I registered for LotusLive and played around with it. I liked the interface, I registered my company and myself as a user. Worked well. Today I wanted to try the other stuff that was shown in this mornings keynote. And it failed. Tried to open the file library. It took more than 20 minutes…

It´s been 30 quiet and very emotional minutes in front of a TV at the Dolphin hall watching President Obama´s inauguration. It was an impressive and touching speech. People near me fighting with tears – and I was touched even I am not a citizen of this country. I wish all the best for this…