Say that five times fast. The podcast of Paul’s panel at the Churchill Club is available here, just in case you didn’t make it out to see him in person. Thanks to Larry Dignan at Between the Lines and ZDNet for recording the panel discussion and posting the podcast. Note, the recording seems to be… Read More
Month: June 2008
Suggest a Session Ends on Monday
Just a quick reminder that the deadline to suggest a session for Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is Monday, June 30. We will be turning off the submissions end of day Pacific time. So, get your idea entered before then. Voting will continue until July 15 13. If all goes well, we’re hoping to deploy a filtering… Read More
Taking the Plunge
It’s ironic to me that D-Day for good old Windows XP is coming up on Monday, since for several months, I’ve been trying to motivate myself to dump it in favor of Ubuntu as the O/S on my work laptop. Tracking Dan’s recent jump into the Mac pond chronicled over Twitter and in his blog… Read More
AppsLab FAQ: How Do You Keep Track of All This Stuff?
This is meant to be an open thread, even though I’m adding it to the FAQ series. We’re all learning this Intertubes thing as we go along, so how do you keep track of it all? More accurately, how can you possibly listen in on all the relevant conversations and filter out noise? Conversation topics… Read More
We Heart Hackers
I love this type of story. About a week ago, I get an email from Noel Portugal, a guy who works at Oracle and likes to hack around with APEX, Web 2.0 stuff, technology in general. In one line that stuck out, Noel mentioned that he was recently “bitten” by the Web 2.0 bug and… Read More
Do You Zombie Reply to All?
I’ve mused in the past about whether spam is really a problem or not. I find it a minor annoyance that I can easily ignore, like ads, but I can see how it would be both annoying in some situations and in others, a major problem. Spam in my work inbox is limited mostly to… Read More
Connect V2 is Live
I’m stoked to announce that we’ve opened our latest version of Connect, the internal community for employees, for beta testing. If you’re an employee, find me through email or otherwise, and I’ll get you the URL. We’ll be redirecting all traffic from the old version of Connect very soon, in case you’re not in a… Read More
Now Featuring the FriendFeed Plugin
I’ve been using FriendFeed off and on since last Fall. I go through phases with it, using it intently for a couple days, then forgetting to check it. Very much like my Twitter use. One thing I like about FriendFeed is that it exposes content to a much wider audience, via network effects, e.g. people… Read More
AppsLab FAQ: What Do You Do at Oracle?
Here’s another installment in my FAQ series. I’ve always had trouble explaining what I do to non-technical people. It’s gotten better over the years, but it’s still a struggle to explain my job. Usually, the conversation goes like this: Q: What do you do for work? A: I work for a big software company. Q:… Read More
Twitter is Your Friend
Insert Twitter post disclaimer here. I’ve noticed a humorous trend that you can use for a laugh. People like to rant at Twitter, just check out twistori’s hate feed for samples. The beauty part of Twitter and its many clients is that it provides easy outlet for your frustration. Can’t get a piece of software… Read More
Making Your Blog Faster and Greener
I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while now. On June 6 at Beer and Blog here in Portland, Jason Grigsby gave an informal talk about how to make your website/blog faster and therefore greener. Sounds a bit like voodoo, but the logic is sound. Cheap and plentiful broadband and iron have made website… Read More
Find Paul at the Churchill Club on Tuesday, June 17
Paul told me about this a while back, and Google just reminded me. He will be speaking at the Churchill Club on Tuesday, June 17 at 7 PM. The session is called From Dilbert to Dude: Succeeding with Web 2.0 Within the Enterprise. Moderating the panel is Forrester analyst and Groundswell co-author Charlene Li. Also… Read More
Blogger Program Renewed for OpenWorld 2008
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is renewing the blogger program for OpenWorld 2008, which will be held at the Moscone Center in beautiful San Francisco, September 21 through 25, 2008. Most of the operational details are the same as last year: Oracle provides the conference pass to qualified bloggers. Oracle does not cover travel… Read More
Facebook is for Quitters
Digg pointed me to this gem today, Lack of Facebook Access Makes You Want to Quit? Grow up, Punks, penned by Ann All last week. I love the generation gap. It makes for the best (and worst) kinds of “teamism”, reminding me of a bit George Carlin does about nationalism. The crux is why do… Read More
Suggest an OpenWorld Session Extended
The submission and voting deadlines for OpenWorld 2008 sessions have been extended. Submissions must now be received by June 30, and voting now ends July 13. The Events team decided that due to the popularity of the offer, it should be open longer. So, you have more time to get your session idea submitted and… Read More
Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic
About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails on enterprise scale… Read More
Discussing Disqus
If you’ve read and commented here in the past, you’ll have noticed we switched to Disqus to handle comments about two months ago. Rich made the change, and I was initially skeptical because frankly I had no real idea of what switching would get us. Disqus has a few distinct advantages over the built-in WordPress… Read More
Even More Fun with Numbers
Enterprise 2.0 2008 is going on now in Boston, and Oracle is a Diamond level sponsor. So, there are loads of Oracle people attending. I got a request for Mix metrics on Friday for someone’s session today, so I spent several hours yesterday hacking together SQL queries. Protip: when you scope your next web app,… Read More
Respect My Authority!
Apparently, someone thinks this blog is an authorative source for Twitter information. While browsing through our referrers for the past month, I noticed the Wikipedia listed, which struck me as odd, to say the least. At first I thought someone had created an entry for AppsLab, which weirded me out, but it turns out that… Read More
Play Name the Platform
If you read here, you’ll know the ‘Lab’s history. If you don’t or you’re a new reader, here’s the quick skinny: In June, we launched IdeaFactory to collect ideas inside the firewall. In August, we added social networking to ideas inside the firewall and called it Connect. In November, we added groups and questions to… Read More