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At the Blogging Q+A, Mike Rhodin was asked some questions. Now it should be noted that I've tried to summarise them as much as possible, and of course I may have misinterpreted the language used. So any mistakes are mine, these are not direct quotes, etc. Bearing that in mind:

• Chris Miller: Web 3.0 ?
  Mike: Some interesting developments in the Web 3.0 arena. IBM 'Innovate' is a good example of a 'game orientated' training system. See the things in the innovation lab...
• Whats the most disruptive technology you've seen?
  Social software.
• Yancy: What did you have to cut from OGS to make it fit:
  Web 2.0, Innovation labs, (and a very long list of features). The intent was to allow each product to announce more during the show in their own presentations.
• John Head: Hosted eMail - whats your take?
  Foundations will ulimately allow the customer to choose whether the applicaton is hosted locally or centrally hosted.
• Rob Novak: can we eradicate ActiveX controls ?
  Yes.
• Richard Swartz: Can we get more lotus certification available for SMB's
  Yes.
• Mitch: More TV's for the game
  Yes.
• Mitch: Toolbars for Lotus Connections?
  Working with public sites.
• me: You versus the competitors ?
  Huge amounts of investment, lots of new products - surprised them. Core Notes franchise is doing well. And since the main competitors send at least 20 people to the show...
• Bruce Elgort: Nifty fifty?
  All templates are being revised.
• Alexander Klude: What is in BlueHouse for BP's ?
  Its a framework, its open.
• Warren Elsmore: Foundations: How to sell to SMB?
  We will leverage some of the skills aquired with Nitix
• Matt White: Designer on Mac?
  It would be a very good thing to do
• Nathan: How can we leverage more people to develop product?
  Were interested in leveraging new models such as greenhouse, Wiki's.

I think the best thing to take away from this is that Lotus are treating bloggers in a web 2.0 kind of way - and are prepared to set aside serious conference time to answer bloggers questions. I also think the senior management were very prepared to answer any question... Kudos to Mike and the team for running this again.