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DOMINOPOWER Q&A
Integrating Twitter with an IBM internal social network
By Joe Dolittle
It looks like our little DominoPower Q&A series has sparked off a trend. The good news is that it seems to really be helping people, because we get more and more letters asking for help.
The bad news is that most requests seem to fit a similar pattern:
I/we use Notes/Domino and I/we also use [fill in the blank] and sometimes also [fill in the blank]. How do I/we/my users/those dweebs in accounting use Notes, [filled in item 1] and [filled in item 2] together?
Sometimes, though, there's a twist. This time, I had no idea what our reader was talking about. Here's the letter from Xui Li:
We use Notes and Domino, but we also use BlueTwit to communicate on projects. Is there any way to integrate BlueTwit with Twitter.
I can't tell you all the thoughts that went through my head when I heard the name BlueTwit. None of them were polite. I had never heard of BlueTwit and finally decided to catch David during a break from chapter writing and ask him what the heck Xui Li was talking about.
BlueTwit, as it turns out, is an internal implementation of Twitter inside IBM's firewalls. I never thought of IBM because Ms. Li used a Gmail address.
Now that that was clear, I realized that (a) I had no idea what the answer was, and (b) since I'm not at IBM, I had no way to test it. Sigh. Time to interrupt Dave again.
David's also never used BlueTwit, but he pointed me to a project that might help Xui and others at IBM. An IBMer named Jason Feinstein created a project called Bluto which is designed to integrate the Twitter feed with Bluto's feed.
Now, since we can't test this, we don't know if it's the entire Twitter firehose Bluto is integrating, or if there's some way to tune it to your needs. Luis Benitez, also at IBM, apparently modified some of Bluto's code to make it work with Lotus Connections.
So, there you go. If you're at IBM, you're going to have to do some investigating on your own. I've included a link to Bluto below, but that's as far as I can go.
If you're outside IBM, think about the name BlueTwit and see if you can come up with some of the same NSFW interpretations of what it might mean as I did.
Product availability and resources
Learn more about Bluto.
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Joe is a ZATZ associate editor. Prior to this job, he was customer support manager for the FileFlex database engine.
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