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Congrats to TechCrunch’s Lotusphere winners!

Posted by Bilal Jaffery on Jan 6th, 2009 in web 2.0 | 2 comments

In case you missed it over the holidays, TechCrunch published a story on Notes/Domino on December 24th, entitled “Two free tickets to Lotusphere–is IBM’s Lotus Notes Out of Touch With Web 2.0 World?” The article is an interview with myself and Kevin Cavanaugh, VP for Lotus messaging and collaboration products. Readers were encouraged to discuss the article, in part to potentially win a free pass to Lotusphere. As of yesterday, well over 125 comments were posted — a heck of a lot for a TechCrunchIT story. Some came from Lotus community members looking for a way to still get to Lotusphere, while others were from ISVs, casual readers, or people who hadn’t seen Notes in years.

We gave TechCrunch two passes to give away, and earlier today, they confirmed that the two are going to Curt Stone and Roland Reddekop. Both of these guys are active participants in the community, and were part of the interesting discussions on the TechCrunch site.

Enjoy folks! See you at the Lotusphere! I’ll be there.

Roland Reddekop

Thanks Bilal, just got to get the plane from T.O. taken care of next.

I hope to learn a ton about the next iteration of Foundations and especially xPages which will change life for me I think.
http://www.Bilal.ca Bilal Jaffery

I just booked through westjet from YYZ, pretty decent rates.

Congrats to TechCrunch’s Lotusphere winners!

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