Add to that widgets, session slides, example databases, third party products, whitepapers, your product, utilities, the files from your blog navigator… the list goes on. A couple weeks back I counted about 4 listed in blog posts over the course of a few days. Going back a little to the Notes 8.1 launch and the ensuing widget gold rush, I was amazed at how difficult it was to track things down downloads like Mikkel Heisterberg’s twitnotes and the Turtle Partnership’s widget database. This had me thinking… there has to be a better way.

It is with great joy that I announce planetlotus.org/downloads (beta), a community based catalog of any Lotus related download, period. It works in the spirit of download.com, shareware.com or tucows.com; it’s a catalog of the downloads meta data. The posted URL will either directly kick off the download from a different site or bring you to a download landing page… like http://lekkimworld.com/twitnotes for more information.

To get started simply register for the forum (if you haven’t already) and start adding. Your download will be given a specialized URL, (e.g., http://planetlotus.org/download/axceler-serveradmin-plus ). The URL works just like those on the planetlotus.org front page. They increment a click counter. There will be tag clouds, search, commenting, favorites, all in the works or completed.

Take a look! http://planetlotus.org/downloads

Please consider leaving any feedback on the forum (link below) so I can track and process it easier… http://planetlotus.org/forum/index.php/topic,70.0.html

To get started:

1. register for the forum: http://planetlotus.org/forum/
2. login to the Planet Lotus management area: http://planetlotus.org/manage/
3. click on manage downloads then *add.

* To start, make sure you only add downloads that are either yours or that you are a point person for. This will make management of the meta that much easier.

As a foot note, over the past 30 days the word download is the single most searched term on planetlotus.org… 148 times.