From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing SnappLinks for XPages, Quickr and (soon) Connections
Category XPages Quickr ConnectionsIBM has made a concerted effort in the past few years to standardize a few things - APIs, programming models, and toolkits to name a few. One of the choices IBM made in this effort was the adoption across several products of the CKEditor rich text editor. It's part of XPages, Quickr, and Connections, and we can expect to see it cropping up in web interfaces to other IBM products in the months and years to come. It's a pretty darn good editor, with lots of rich text options and really quite good copy/paste fidelity -- one of the hardest things to get right and a big complaint of other editors such as ActiveX controls, Dojo's editor, and more.
As is the case with some of the other editors, CKEditor can be extended, adding buttons and features. This little known and hardly documented fact (outside the PHP community) is at the heart of today's announcement.
You've heard IBM say "Get Social. Do Business." Well now you can, in a way that is natural and comfortable for your user community.
SnappLinksTM for IBM Domino XPages, IBM Lotus Quickr and (soon) IBM Connections is the first social link plug-in for the CKEditor embedded in all these products. With SnappLinks, you can use your editor -- in your own applications with XPages or with IBM products -- to create and share the public social experience across Intranets, on the web with suppliers, and in teams. SnappLinks is integrated directly into the editor and lets you connect to several social (and useful!) public networks:
--Twitter*
--YouTube*
--Google Maps*
--LinkedIn*
--Tungle
--Wikipedia
*In-line APIs allow us to keep users on the page!
All these plus a nice email link generator allows your Domino applications, Quickr, and Connections to shine -- and your users to be more "social!"
Here's a screenshot of SnappLinks embedded right into the editor:
And an example of a page that's been created using SnappLinks...In this case the mapping component has just been clicked:
Our product page is on the way up, but feel free to contact me (through any social network!) for more information.
Cheers!
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