That's right... who cares if Dogear is better than Google? Sorry Google, but it's true. Dogear has become my primary search engine. But I understand that some people may still be infatuated with Google. That's ok, I won't judge you.
Why? Because you can have both side-by-side! Yup, that's right, since Lotus Connections Dogear is built following the SOA principles you can consume, embed, and use those services from anywhere. And here's the latest example: You can now embed Dogear into Google and have search results side-by-side!
Imagine having the best of both worlds right at your fingertips! Imagine how much faster adoption will happen! Imagine being able to find expertise from Google! Imagine being able to chat with those experts right from Google! Imagine being able to call those experts right from Google! Should I go on? 
Can you tell how excited I am? Total work effort? ~3-4 hours with baby interruptions, dinner, and the Vice-Presidential debate last night!. Now, because of the aforementioned baby interruptions, the code is not pretty and I don't want you all to judge me on my bad code design.
Instead, I'm going to delay posting the code (for a little while) and would really like to hear from you. Do you think this is valuable at all? I certainly think so, but maybe I just have Dogearitis.
You want to see a demo? Fine, click here to see a demo in full screen. (sorry, I still haven't been able to figure out how to resize Flash videos recorded with Jing... 
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Would I have seen this before internally? Looks familiar. But very cool demo. I am wondering if we can post this SWF file to YouTube to share? Thanks Luis!
ReplyDeleteHey Luis, this demo is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis is very cool and will be a good tool to drive adoption. You get great results with the large population and history with IBM, but with companies just starting with Dogear, this will show them how they can drive that same value.
ReplyDeleteSo any hints on how you did it? Greasemonkey?
Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI've uploaded the video to YouTube and it's still processing. Not sure why it's taking so long. I'll post an update here when the video has processed. re: having this internally, I hope not, because that means that I just reinvented the wheel :). The only thing that I've seen is similar to this is the w3 integration with Dogear.
Aaron, glad you liked it!!
Handly, thanks for your feedback!! Yes, I did it with Greasemonkey. Give me a couple of days to clean the code and I'll post it so you can use it against BleedYellow or Greenhouse.
This is great Luis...looking forward to seeing the YouTube video.
ReplyDeleteThis a a great way to integrate connections with a mainstream tool such as google, but how do you encourage employees to use dogear? As I understand, this will be helpful as long as people are 'dogear-ing'
ReplyDeleteGlori, great question on how to get people to add their bookmarks. Within IBM, what I do is evangelize it, I actually sit down with people and show them how saving a bookmark in Dogear takes the same amount of clicks as saving it in their browser!!! I then show them how valueable and how awesome Dogear is at searching!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've also integrated Dogear into our enterprise search engine and email client. Basically, as Dogear becomes more and more pervasive, people rely more on it and (hopefully) are encouraged to start social bookmarking! It takes some effort, but it's doable!
Something not quite as cool but could help with dogear adoption is to add it into internet explorer's "search providers". In IE 7, you can add providers to the search box... in the past I have always set this to google instead of Live search but now, I also have dogear in the list.
ReplyDeleteQuick steps on how:
1. click the chevron at the right of the search box on IE. pick "Find more providers" from the list that appears.
2. in the "Create Your Own" box, add this URL http://[your connections site]/homepage/web/search?query=TEST
3. Name it and click Install
try it out! select the engine from the list in the search box, type the search term...
Hi wcrane,
ReplyDeleteYour wish is here!!!
Lotus Connections rocks! :)