Flashcards.com announced a three-tiered product line for Web companies interested in using Flash-based content to attract and retain customers, as well as drive new revenues via Rich Media advertising. Its E-Line Product in particular is an Enterprise edition of Flashcard.com’s Rich Media greeting and invitation product designed to provide companies with customized, interactive greeting cards that can be sent to customers utilizing both proprietary and licensed content.

If you take the customer survey now available on the Lotus Domino for iSeries 400 homepage, you’ll have a chance to win a new Dedicated Server for Domino long-sleeve, mock turtleneck shirt. The 10-minute survey is intended to gauge how Domino for iSeries (AS/400) customers use their Domino solutions.

ComputerUser.com has an article on the rise of instant messaging. According to the article, "When IM is open and standardized, most everyone will want to use it on many electronic devices capable of receiving signals."

Lotus has announced Lotus Research scientists will present on a variety of collaborative topics at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conference in Philadelphia, including topics ranging from design, usability, and community awareness.

Computer World reports an International Data Corp. study predicts that about 70% of large corporations will install instant messaging software during the next 12 months representing an increase in the 6.9% using it today.

CRN reports IBM and Lotus beefed up their program for supporting e-business software partners through a series of additions and enhancements to the IBM PartnerWorld for Software program.

Teamstudio.com, the Web site for Ives Development, Inc., announced it earned second place in the customer service category of the Inc. Technology Web Awards.

The world’s leading architects of XML technology will address attendees at XML 2000 about the benefits and future of XML. XML 2000 will begin with 28 pre-conference tutorials (December 3-4). The conference will include seven Special Interest Day sessions, ranging from an XML case study session to a Web graphics session (December 4) and conclude with the expo featuring more than 90 tool vendors and other organizations (December 5-7) at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

Silicon.com has an article in which Lotus CEO Al Zollar says Lotus will move ever closer to parent company IBM as it tries to recreate products as knowledge management tools.

DominoPro has an article on Domino on iSeries Administration with Operations Navigator, a Windows-based, graphical administration tool for the iSeries.