I would like to see a widget that tracks the status messages of user-selected Sametime users. Sort of the way Facebook aggregates your friends' status messages and actions. Ideally this could be a widget in the sidebar of 8.x clients.

 

I would also like to see a status update field either in the widget or Sametime itself. I know you can edit your status either through Preferences or by editing it from the community icon but an obvious field that doesn't require several clicks would cause users to update their status more frequently, I think. This would allow users to feel more connected to what the Lotus Notes Developers are working on, for example. It would also allow managers to immediately see what their team is working on without having a meeting or multiple emails on project status.