The latest proActive – Lotus Engineering’s e-magazine that we do for them – has just gone live. There’s a fancy online viewer now which I just tried and seems to do the job pretty well. But if you want to download the pdf in the traditional way, there’s a PDF icon in the far right of the screen – when you are in the viewer – that gives you that option. You can even select all or just a part of it to download.
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Lotus Pay What You Want Tour
August 3rd, 2009 |
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THE BAND RELEASES A PAIR OF EPs ON OCTOBER 6: FEATHER ON WOOD AND OIL ON GLASS
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Lotus is about to break ground in a way that no other rock band has done prior – they are plotting a tour this fall that truly allows their legion of fans to pay-what-they-want for tickets. The “Pay-What-You-Want-Tour” featuring Lotus is an eight-night run of shows in western U.S. states, sponsored by Ticketweb, that lets the fans decide how much their show ticket will cost. At the $15.00 Pay-What-You-Want level or higher, fans receive free digital downloads of the band’s two new EPs Feather on Wood and Oil on Glass, both to be released on October 6, 2009.
The Pay-What-You-Want dates are part of Lotus’ larger Fall Tour, running from early-October through the end of the year. Big stops include performances at Denver’s Fillmore, NYC’s Terminal 5, Baltimore’s Sonar, Chicago’s Vic Theatre, and others. Lotus brings out several must-see opening acts for many of these shows, including Break Science ft Adam Deitch, The Egg (from London, U.K.), Big in Japan, and Big Gigantic. Don’t miss a few special small shows: here’s the scoop – two shows at NYC’s Mercury Lounge are being bundled with the T-5 ticket, and the same offer is available for the Denver shows (to get into Quixote’s, you must buy the Fillmore ticket).
Downloads of both new EPs will be bundled with advance ticket purchases for select Fall Tour dates including the three New York City shows, two Denver shows, both Boston shows and a few other shows to be determined. The material on both Feather on Wood and Oil on Glass can be directly traced back to Lotus’ 2008 full-length release, Hammerstrike. A number of songs were recorded that didn’t find their way onto Hammerstrike (either they hadn’t been finished by deadlines or they weren’t coalescing with the sound of that project), but after finishing the album, Lotus decided to revisit these tracks, and the results are extraordinary. Feather on Wood is sunnier with a laid-back vibe, yet not afraid of big rock beauty, while Oil on Glass is darker in character, with more head-nodding tempos.
Listing of forthcoming Lotus tour dates (and who will be opening each show):
09.04 Bottom Line Nagoya, JP
09.05 Metamorphose Festival Tokyo, JP
09.06 Drunkard’s Stadium Kashiwa, JP
09.18 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
09.19 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
10.02 Aces Lounge Austin, TX
10.03 Aces Lounge Austin, TX
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT Dates (10.06 – 10.14)
10.06 The Roxy Hollywood, CA w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.07 The Independent San Francisco, CA w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.08 McDonald Theatre Eugene, OR w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.9 The Showbox Seattle, WA w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.10 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.11 The Nightlight Bellingham, WA w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.13 Knitting Factory Boise, ID w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.14 Murray Theater Salt Lake City, UT w/ Break Science ft Adam Deitch
10.15 Belly Up Aspen, CO
10.16 Quixote’s Denver, CO
10.17 The Fillmore Denver, CO
10.20 Granada Theatre Lawrence, KS
10.21 The Old Rock House St. Louis, MO w/ The Egg
10.22 Slowdown Omaha, NE w/ The Egg
10.23 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN w/ The Egg
10.24 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI w/ The Egg
10.26 Copper Dragon Carbondale, IL w/ The Egg
10.27 Bluebird Nightclub Bloomington, IN w/ The Egg
10.28 Bogart’s Cincinnati, OH w/ The Egg
10.29 House of Blues Cleveland, OH w/ The Egg
10.30 The Town Ballroom Buffalo, NY w/ The Egg
10.31 Sonar Baltimore, MD w/ Big In Japan & The Egg
11.04 Higher Ground Burlington, VT w/ The Egg
11.05 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA w/ The Egg
11.06 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA w/ The Egg
11.07 Revolution Hall Troy, NY
11.10 Is Venue Charlottesville, VA w/ Big Gigantic
11.11 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC w/ Big Gigantic
11.12 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA w/ Big Gigantic
11.13 Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival Live Oak, FL
11.14 Orange Peel Asheville, NC w/ Big Gigantic
11.27 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
11.28 Terminal 5 New York, NY
IBM Lotus Foundations Reach Adds Instant Messaging, VOIP
July 15th, 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Foundations Reach brings VOIP, instant messaging, presence and several more messaging and collaboration tools to its Lotus Foundations Start appliance. The offerings are aimed at Microsoft’s Office, Small Business Server and Office Communications Server suites. IBM also created widgets to let users access LinkedIn and TripIt from Lotus Notes.
– IBM July 15 said it is adding instant
messaging, VOIP, file transfer and several more options to its Lotus Foundations appliance, a Linux-based collaboration
server the company makes for its business partners to sell small to midsize
businesses.
IBM next month will offer Lotus
Foundations Reac…
Google Fishes For IBM Lotus Notes Users With New Migration Tool
July 14th, 2009 |
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Google introduces Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes, a new program to help users of the popular IBM Lotus Notes e-mail application move their mail, calendar and contacts to Gmail. The move marks the latest step in the search engine’s quest to bring customers from IBM and Microsoft’s legacy messaging and collaboration software to Google’s cloud computing platform. Google also released Calendar Labs today.
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Google continued its assault on the e-mail incumbents
July 14, introducing a new database program to help users of the popular IBM Lotus Notes
e-mail application move their mail, calendar and contacts to Google’s Gmail
application.
Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes is actually…
The latest Lotus proActive is out
June 19th, 2009 |
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The latest edition of Lotus Engineering’s proActive e-magazine is now out and available for free download. It includes a particularly interesting feature on City Cars first published in Automotive Engineer that is well worth a read. It’s key reading for anyone seriously interested in the segment and the fundamentals that drive design in small cars.
What else is in the latest edition? As John Cleese would say in Monty Python, ‘And now for something completely different…’
I interviewed the head of a company in the Netherlands that is about to commission the world’s largest second generation biofuel manufacturing plant (BioMCN makes bio-methanol from glycerine that is a by-product of biodiesel production). BioMCN’s CEO, Rob Voncken, was certainly an interesting interviewee: a trained scientist with a business brain who is also motivated by the idea of doing something good for the environment.
He was charming and cool as a cucumber when I talked to him, but it’s quite a project he is in charge of. He could be forgiven a bit of stress as commercial production inauguration approaches. The business opportunity? In the short-term it’s about substituting bio-ethanol for bio-methanol in the gasoline alcohol blend (it can be mixed and we get ‘A85′ rather than E85 with all its food chain incursion woes). There are some pretty powerful interests behind ethanol though.
And there’s also a fascinating insider view from the Lotus marketing department on how they approached the press launch for the Evora. It’s clearly a highly targeted exercise and they don’t do model launches often, so when they do, they put some serious thought into it. And they don’t exactly scrimp judging by the pic of the hotel on Loch Lomond. I just hope the Scottish weather was kind.
If you are signed up already for proActive, you should automatically receive an email with a link for the pdf. If not, why not get yourself signed up – it’s free.