I pasted a URL link into an idea, and it was not rendered as a URL link. This is basic functionality of IBM Lotus Domino, and it should work in IdeaJam also.
Could you point me to which post this occurred? CoexEdit certainly recognizes the URL links, as does FCKeditor. I tried posting a test post just now where I pasted in a URL (without even the leading http) and it was recognized, as was another manually added URL. The only trick seems to be to hit enter after entering the URL, and even that isn't necessary if we add a parameter to CoexEdit.
Sigh! I take it back. It works from Internet Explorer and not Firefox right now, for reasons I don't know. I think it may be the interim version of FCKeditor that is in this beta. I'll send Bruce the gold version and it should fix this.