Comments on: Want to Help Socialize OpenWorld?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:02:56 +0000

Sounds cool. I think we're going to have to go with OOW room plus Twitter, no geo-location. Time is short and so are resources. Not so bad, we tried.

By: topperge

topperge — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:42:53 +0000

If anyone is still working on stuff I have a beta to Zeep Mobile which allows SMS integration into apps. It wouldn't be too hard to come up with an app that takes the CSV from your OOW schedule and 20 minutes before one of your sessions sends you a msg about what the title is and where you're supposed to be going.

I'd write it but my 4th week of 80+ hour weeks isn't going to let that happen.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:38:40 +0000

Thanks for the offer. I doubt we'll crash Twitter, but if we did, that would be a feather in the 2.0 cap wouldn't it.

By: fuadar

fuadar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:08:31 +0000

Though i'm not much of a developer. i can chip in with whatever is needed at openworld . Video broadcasting doesnt work on non jail broken iphones . There will be plenty of twitter updates coming thru (I'm sensing a twitter crash ).

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:56:12 +0000

Thanks dude. I think this train may be stuck at the station though.

I've added your link to the Oracle OpenWorld room on Friendfeed.

By: topperge

topperge — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:32:06 +0000

Well, here's my first contribution to the project(?). Anyone that wants to do anything with the sessions will need this data set. Its a list of all the sessions, date, start and end time, tracks, etc.

No speaker info or session abstracts, but its a good start. Feel free to grab it from me at:
http://matttopper.com/personal/oracle/sessions_...

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:30:59 +0000

The problem is that we rely on people to update whatever we use (Twitter) to collect the information. OraTweet is a non-issue, since it's inside our firewall, but it would be a nice scale test for Noel.

I'm OK with the FF room, if that's all we have time to do. Maybe we should have started this thread earlier . . .

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:28:44 +0000

Yup, as Matt mentions, I talked to Chris a few months ago, but more about his app than the iPod giveaway. Mix, although not as targeted at conferences, does most of the same stuff.

Because I'm not in Marketing (remember?), I can't help with device giveaways. However, it does seem a bit pricey to give 40,000 anythings away.

By: topperge

topperge — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:12:41 +0000

I've long said that I need to write a conference planning and management app. Every single one I've seen is a pile. I don't think I've ever seen a schedule builder well executed.

I know that Jake has talked to Chris Bucchere in the past about the app he built for Participate, he also used it recently for Ruby Nation here in DC. They are launching it as a platform available at: http://www.nowgetsocial.com/

So what are some good ideas? Google released a new version of gears tonight that is location based but it too doesn't get down to a low enough level for a busy conference hall.

I haven't even logged into the schedule builder yet, I wonder how hard it would be to scrape the data? Take that, merge it up with OraTweet, have the presenters claim their sessions and send live updates to them during their presentation. If they are brave enough I'm sure I could crank out a small Air app to have the messages pop up on the screen as they presented. Then again, I don't know that I would trust some of the people around here to put messages live on my screen during a presentation.

By: bex

bex — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:11:13 +0000

you should chat with the aqualogic/BEA folks…

At the “participate 08″ conference in Chicago, they GAVE AWAY some iPod touches to the audience, pre-installed with some social apps to help folks get connected. It also allowed people to give feedback on a presentation during the talk, to say whether or not they liked a specific feature. Pretty cool…

Its a tad late for open world… but what Oracle REALLY needs is a decent mobile tie-in to their online schedule builder…

scratch that… first get a decent schedule builder… THEN make it social.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:26:42 +0000

I already know a few couches I could surf in the Bay Area, but I think I'm a bit too old for that. Anyway, this isn't about finding me a hotel in SF.

Someone get us on track please!

By: topperge

topperge — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:51:37 +0000

You could always try couch surfing (http://www.couchsurfing.com/) I'm sure Uncle Larry would appreciate the cheaper prices. And being San Francisco I'm sure you good find some interesting people to surf with.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:07:08 +0000

Nice tip. Now, if only I knew where the housing page was . . .

Maybe socializing OpenWorld should focus on getting me a better hotel room.

By: Warren Baird

Warren Baird — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:08:19 +0000

> Now, if only I could get a hotel room in the city and skip the 30 minute drive
> up from the airport hotel where I’m currently installed. Ideas?

check back at the OOW housing page *often*. a co-worker clued me in to a better hotel yesterday, and I managed to get moved from near the airport to hotel just a couple of km from Moscone… But it was the *only* open room at the hotel…

I was contemplating writing a screen-scraper that'd check for better rooms every five minutes and notify me if it found anything – but (as is so often the case) the old-fashioned approach won first.