Comments on: Why Stickers are My New Business Card

By: Hello There LinkedIn, It’s Been a While « oracle fusion identity

Hello There LinkedIn, It’s Been a While « oracle fusion identity — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:27:50 +0000

[...] an enterprisey conference means exchanging and collecting lots of business cards. I usually carry stickers, but somehow they’re not in my laptop bag [...]

By: Where’s the Halo Exactly? « oracle fusion identity

Where’s the Halo Exactly? « oracle fusion identity — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:12:43 +0000

[...] so I get a nice sample of the hardware people rock for work. Years ago, I was among the very small number using a Mac. That has changed, but PCs still dominate these gatherings, by a large [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:36:00 +0000

Thanks for the reminder to catch up on spam culling.

By: Band T-shirts

Band T-shirts — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:13:09 +0000

The sticks are great. I think its a great idea and might end up using this myself next time.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:21:38 +0000

Funny, I made reference to that very example at OOW, i.e. don't be the guy wearing the shirt of the band to the concert. Famous for me from PCU, an underrated flick.

I think we'll go for a vinyl sticker, similar to Rich's original design (and the new logo), next time. So, if you're in possession of the original paper version, circa 2008, you will always be cool.

Frankly, I'd like to have that "before they sold out" problem.

By: David Haimes

David Haimes — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:35:14 +0000

When I used to go to (and work at) a lot of concerts, teh selection of the T-Shirt to wear was a very delicate thing. Wearing a T Shirt of the band you were watching is a no no, you can make a case for a really old one to show you liked them in the early days before all the other bozos around you had heard of them. Ideally you need to find a slightly obscure band that the coolest followers of the band you're going to see will have heard of and will think are cool. Frankly it's a wonder I ever got out of the house with all this to think about.

Geek Sticker Chic is similar – so at the Next conference when AppsLab is more famous than say ValleyWag (to pick a random example), those stickers won't be so cool anymore and it won't work saying 'yeah but I liked the early AppsLab before they sold out'

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:59:14 +0000

Yeah, while I was thinking about this topic, the similarities did occur to me. It's a pretty accurate comparison. I suppose the sticker crowd will shun them if/when they hit the mainstream, typical cycle.

The emergence of business-y stickers will be funny.

By: RaoulM

RaoulM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:46:09 +0000

Possibly NSFW as well!

I guess I was just picking up on the simile you used. Stickers on laptops and bumpers are similar to tattoos on people (although the latter are generally WAY more permanent). But they do serve the purpose of social tagging in the same way.

Plus, the acceptability and variety of each has changed a lot through the recent years. So maybe your stickered laptop is like an early-adopter tattooed person. You are shunned by polite society today (at a metaphorical level), but you are also the trendsetter. Before you know it, everyone's mother will have stickers on her laptop.

OK - probably stretched that thought way too far. I'll shelve my idea for http://tattoogallery.blogs.oracle.com

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:36:51 +0000

How about a big AppsLab across my chest in six inch letters? That do it for you? A tattoo galley would be both interesting and creepy, mostly creepy

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:35:45 +0000

Ha, if I remember Rich's Dell correctly, it's too late for that.

By: RaoulM

RaoulM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:09:32 +0000

So, the question must be asked – what tattoos do you have? Perhaps we need an Oracle tattoo gallery on AppsLab or Connect?

By: matt

matt — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:39:57 +0000

Just don't try to peel them off. It will make it worse. On my an old stinkpad it took off the paint.

By: manalang

manalang — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:31:17 +0000

Heh… my ORCL laptop is littered with very sticky vinyl stickers. Can't wait to turn that into IT.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:25:04 +0000

Exactly why I sticker my personal Macbook. 1) I won't have to start over unless it totally dies, in which case, I have bigger problems and 2) I don't have to deal with IT.

I doubt it's a major deal unless your h/w is pretty new. Most of us have the same work laptop for most of its amortizable life, so repurposing isn't a huge deal. Still, I prefer to steer clear.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:54:48 +0000

When I was consulting I used to collect stickers from the clients I worked at and I would put them on my laptop. I stopped when I had a laptop issue and had to turn it into IT. They were kind of pissed…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:50:11 +0000

Had to look it up (thanks 'tubes), but yeah, those were the days. We plan to try Sticker Genie for our next batch to get vinyl; on short notice, we had to go paper. They're nice, but vinyl is shiny.

I like shiny things.

By: chet

chet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:18:15 +0000

I'll succumb to the snail mail if you will. Remember SASE? I struggled for years to know what that was.

I definitely want an appslab sticker…so I'll look into getting mine done too.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:08:57 +0000

Absolutely, but to exchange, we'll either need to use snail mail or need to be in close proximity. Ideas?

By: chet

chet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:38:31 +0000

I miss stickers…

I think I am going to get my own ORACLENERD business cards soon. I'll trade with you…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:50:37 +0000

Excellent point, especially since stickers allow for multiple tags, whereas t-shirts support only one at a time.