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I’m tardy with this recap of our first Working Group call, which happened on December 19. Seems like a lot more time has passed, and most of you, like me, are just coming out of a holiday non-work cocoon.
Anyway, the Working Group network currently has 236 members, thanks mostly to a nice post by Marshall [...]
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Now that I’ve sang “Auld Lang Syne“, waxed sentimentally on 2007 and wiped a tear, here comes the companion piece, 2008 predictions.
I’m not a huge fan of predictions, unless I happen to be right. I still think Google will acquire Salesforce.com; that’s my story, and I sticking to it. But, in the spirit of [...]
Written by Jake.
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To usher out 2007, it’s time to do the retrospective. Cue the music.
Looking back on this past year elicits “wow” moments for me. This time last year, I worked in a different team, Fusion Financials Strategy; I was neck-deep in the requirements for Secure Enterprise Search integration into Apps. I lived in a different state, [...]
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Matt Topper, a friend of the AppsLab, apparently has way too much free time.
He has elfed us using the Office Max ElfYourself doodad. My wife was messing around with this application a few weeks ago, and it took her about half an hour to do one elf. So, kudos to Matt for his patience and [...]
Written by Jake.
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In the past, I’ve blogged about Twitter exchanges I’ve had with Craig Cmehil who works over at SAP. Yesterday, he, Ethan Jewett, who is an SAP BI consultant at an SAP and Oracle partner, and I had an interesting discussion about how to drive new web innovation internally. That conversation begot my post and one [...]
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I should have done this months ago. AppsLab added a new family member back in September, Anthony Lai.
If you’ve read here for long, you know we are a small team: Paul drives the bus, Rich writes the code, and I . . . blog? We realized over the summer after IdeaFactory and Connect we hits [...]
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Google recently launched Knol. It is essentially a Wikipedia where authors can build up a personal brand. In addition, they can even monetize pages they author via, surprise surprise, Google Ads. Personally, I think the concept is brilliant. It plays on everyone’s need to feel special and that can’t hurt participation.
As [...]
Written by Jake.
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For some reason, every day this week has felt like Friday. Did anyone notice the either of the following articles?
Merriam-Webster names w00t word of the year for 2007. Facebook came in second, which does not bode well as the Year of Facebook winds to a close. I wonder if the Project Beacon fiasco had [...]
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I’ve mentioned the group a couple times, and today, Paul announced the meeting details for the inaugural meeting of the Working Group our support group for new web practitioners. Bounce over and check it out, if you’ve not already.
The call will be held at 0900 PST on Wednesday, December 19, and the plan is to [...]
Written by Jake.
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Craig Cmehil, Ethan Jewett and I had an interesting conversation (over Twitter, natch) earlier today about demand for New Web tools like Twitter, social networking, social bookmarking inside the firewall.
Twitter’s 140 character limitation sometimes leads to convolution, but I think the core question was how do you approach internal demand for these tools? From the [...]
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Steve Chan sent me a note today asking me if I’d seen this blog, called Oracle Applications DBA APPSLab.
Apparently, the blog’s owner, Famy Rasheed, was asking Steve to list his new blog on Steve’s blogroll. Steve is a very conscientious (and popular) blogger, who has been plagiarized in the past, so he was doing the [...]
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I’ve noticed that a lot of people use Twitter to promote their blogs and the blogs of their colleagues and friends. Twitter is a social network, so this is expected behavior. I find myself clicking on the TinyURLs in tweets out of curiosity more often than not. A tweet like this one from James Governor [...]
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Johan “The Killer App” Myrberger has a nice post on AppsLab today. He says some nice things about AppsLab and how we’ve influenced his views of Oracle. This line is classic:
I must admit I don’t know much about Oracle as a company. I know they have a database product, but apparently they do much more. [...]
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Following my post Friday on the newly minted Blog Council, I got a response in comments from Andy Sernovitz, who runs the overseeing authority of the council, GasPedal.
Apparently, they reached out to Oracle and Sun when the council was formed. Anyway, joining the council falls under Justin’s jurisdiction, not mine. I’m just a blogger. As [...]
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I teased this in my last post on the Blogging Council, which struck me as similar in purpose, but different in execution, to Paul’s latest brain child, The Working Group.
The Working Group isn’t an Oracle thing or an AppsLab thing. If you’ve read here for more than a few weeks, you’ll know we encounter all [...]
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So, thanks to Twitter, I found out that a bunch of big companies started the Blog Council, this week. As background, some of the people I follow on Twitter work for or are linked by relationship to SAP, and SAP is one of the member companies of the Council.
As noted previously on this blog, mostly [...]
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By way of Justin, it seems that Jeremy Ashley and his team are now blogging about Applications user experience at usableapps. They’ve launched a full site around user experience, including design and research articles. I expect they’ll get a lot of comments and traffic, since everyone has an opinion about UI. It leaves a lasting [...]
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Marian Crkon writes The Feature, an E-Business Suite focused blog that also sometimes features the written styling of our pal, Floyd. You can find The Feature at the always entertaining URL, itsafeature.com, which alludes to its authors backgrounds as consultants.
Coincidentally, another guest writer for The Feature is Nancy Chung, who wrote a piece on XML [...]
