IBM developerWorks podcasts

Apple announced the iPad today. Is it a giant iTouch, a Kindle-killer? Does it fall short or is it a game-changer? Probably somewhere in the middle of all of that, but certainly another cool and elegant Apple product which feels like a first volley into a burgeoning market segment. Todd Watson and I talk about it.

Todd Watson interviews Carol Galvin, Principle Segment Analyst with IBM Market Insights. She talks about the makeup of the global collaboration software market,opportunity spaces, LotusLive, doing more with less, increasingly empowered users, and more.

Turbo Todd and I talk about speedgeeking and a blogger session with IBM execs on Tuesday, and summarize major announcements on Wednesday.

Todd and I caught up with Rawn Shah, IBM's Social Software Knowledge Practices Lead, to talk about his new book, Social Networking for Business.

Todd Watson and I wrap up day one at Lotusphere 2010 with morning session highlights and major announcements.

Day one at Lotusphere in Orlando. Turbo Todd and I sat down in the product showcase with Gina Poole, VP of Marketing 2.0, IBM Software Group. Gina talks about the growing value of social software in the workplace, challenges that customers face, and how IBM is doing it internally, in particular with BlueIQ, an internal program coordinating the IBM Software Group adoption of social tools like Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and Rational Asset Manager, as well as pilot work developed in IBM’s Technology Adoption Program and research labs.

Turbo Todd Watson and I will be blogging and podcasting from Lotusphere 2010, January 17-21 at Walt Disney World's Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida. In this podcast we preview the conference and what we'll be doing.

Irshad Raihan, Worldwide Market Manager for IBM Data Management, talks about virtualization, the cloud, analytics, green it, and more.

I'm joined by Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, a company that integrates enterprise collaboration technologies into the work environment, and Chris Lamb, Senior Marketing Manager for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business platform. They talk about the integration of Rational Team Concert and Lotus Connections to expand the interaction and conversation around software development beyond just technical participants to other key business stakeholders such as marketing and legal.

IBM tech evangelist Turbo Todd Watson gives his thumbs up/thumbs down for 2009

Andy Glover is a developer, author, and speaker on behavior-driven development, Continuous Integration, and Agile software development. He joins me to talk about his new developerWorks article this week titled, Java development 2.0: Gaelyk for Google App Engine.

Branavan Ganesan, developerWorks community strategist. talks about new My developerWorks features, in particular integration with Facebook, Twitter, status updates, and river of news.

Checking in with developerWorks newsletters editor, John Swanson, on the latest with the newsletters and My developerWorks.

Khaled Noaman, a member of the XML Parser Development team at the IBM Toronto Lab, talks about his co-authored developerWorks article series on XML Schema 1.1.

David Laverty, VP IBM WW Information Management Marketing, talks about the new Business Analytics and Process Optimization business unit at IBM and what it means to customers.