IBM Updates Lotus Notes with Web 2.0 Capabilities for Global Collaboration

Fortune 1000 companies that leverage IBM software for email and collaboration will begin to see Web 2.0 capability introduced into near term upgrades of the Lotus Notes product. Lotus Notes applications can be built with user interfaces that deploy AJAX and style sheets, while content can be delivered through subscription to RSS or ATOM feeds. ...

... "Included in 8.0.1 is a powerful Web 2.0 feature, My Widgets, that can be used to execute actions such as retrieving real time flight arrival information simply by clicking on a flight number in an email. This is accomplished through a new technology called Live Text that can identify patterns and phrases and associate them with an appropriate widget. Users can drag and drop, or import, various kinds of widgets such as Google Gadgets, feeds, and Web pages or their own custom programs onto their new widgets panel in the Lotus Notes sidebar. Planned for delivery with Lotus Domino 8.0.1, is IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which will provide automatic, real time wireless replication of email including attachments, calendar, contacts, personal journal and the to-do list for Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. " ...

Via IBM: Lotus Collaboration Software Roadmap