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Ok, here is your first look @ YellowBubble.org

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Ok, I've been a bit secretive about this until now because I wanted to get a head start on the project before opening up too much about it to the world.  I'm still a few weeks away from being ready for the first beta release, but I thought I'd give you all your first sneak peek. These pages are a pre-release look so they aren't complete, aren't 100% fleshed out, etc, but the pages pretty much tells the story so read away.

Home Page
A picture named M2


Alphabetical Providers Listing - One of many ways to find a provider....
A picture named M3


One of the "Set up your profile pages" ....
A picture named M4

So Business Partners, or anybody with a Lotus related product or service offering, get ready to post your profile and products into the catalog. You are also the first round of testers I would like to see in the system when it's ready. (I should note that right now the catalog will simply be a way to direct people seeking your solutions back to you to complete the transaction. There is no intent (at the moment) to have an "app store" like portion to the catalog (but I have thought about it as a future possibility)

I plan to release the site in phases, with the first being the provider and product catalog, then the engagement bidding system, then the technical resource aggregator, and then more ideas that I have for the future...

Its also built 100% in xPages, so I may (depending on the sensitivity of the final design in the online bidding system) release the entire site as an xPages tutorial. Either way, if anybody wants to help contribute to the site as it progresses, I'll be happy to welcome you onboard.

The idea is that this is, and will always continue to be, a 100% free, community based site, where providers and customers can come together to find solutions...

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Gravatar Image11 - so what's the latest on this?

Gravatar Image10 - @7 - Yes I thought about it, deliberately for awhile about whether or not to use YellowBubble.

Yes its used in reference to the internet/blogging community as a self contained world of notes "fans"... often referring to the group in some way about being ignorant or self absorbed or unaware about what is happening outside the confines of the bubble ... however, its really a catchy way to describe our group, its memorable, and somewhat descriptive. I think the more we can grow our little yellow bubble, and continue to increase awareness of the "yellow bubble", through the use of sites like this, ideamjam, openntf, etc, the better we are all for it. The bigger success of this site is going to be how well we can get this out to those outside the current "yellow bubble", and draw more in.

Post launch, there should/will be a concerted effort to get the name out, to pull more in, etc, and I hope the community as a whole steps up to help accomplish. This was the subtle undertone to the message on what you see on yellowbubble.org today ... "Are you ready for the bubble to burst." ... or let's grow the community by leaps and bounds, lets get outside ourselves, and lets use yellowbubble.org as a conduit to do it...

Either that or it was just kinda a cool name and the domain was available ... can't quite remember :) ....

Gravatar Image9 - Looks great looking forward for the tutorial

Gravatar Image8 - Excellent stuff, looking forward to preview.

Gravatar Image7 - Given the negative connotation around the term "Yellow Bubble," i.e. the way it has been used, I wonder if there might be a better name for this excellent idea?

Gravatar Image6 - Really cool effort. I know that some will ask why IBM doesn't provide this, and in some ways it is overlap with things we do do, but as a community effort it has the possibility for independence and amplification. Looking forward to seeing this happen.

Gravatar Image5 - I am glad someone did it. I was thinking about doing something similar but never had the time. Too many projects and ideas. It looks good. I will add our companies when it is ready.

Gravatar Image4 - great stuff! That's exactly what is missing yet in the Lotus universe.
I will add our company as soon as possible.

Gravatar Image3 - Jeremy...another hero from the YellowBubble...

Gravatar Image2 - Wow! Fantastic idea and very much needed.

Bruce

Gravatar Image1 - Very nice. I will be keeping an eye on this with interest and will add my company & products to it when it is ready.

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