Archive for April, 2009:
When Are You Most Productive?
I’ve been rolling hard with Rich and Anthony to finish up the beta-testing of our next major release of Connect.
I’ll probably blog the highlights because this release contains the most new stuff since our second version, when we moved to the Mix codeline and added groups. There will be a ton of awesome new stuff, [...]
Ask Google?
Remember when Ask Jeeves launched?
The premise was simple. Instead of munging your search into keywords and hoping for the right result set, all you had to do was ask Jeeves a real question. If you remember that, you’ll also remember that it didn’t work very well.
Google just announced they have indexed public data sets on [...]
Where Are They Now? Top 15 Web Properties of April 1999
I’m trying out a new idea. If Twitter is mirco-blogging, then blogging is, well, macro-blogging?
I come across lots of stuff I think is interesting and worth discussing, but not quite full-post-worthy. So, to combat my blogger’s block, I give you mini-blogging.
It’s not quite micro in size, but smaller and probably less well-formed (if that’s possible) [...]
The Future is Good Enough
Chet suggested last week that I talk about what the future will look like. So, like a good blogger, I’m recycling someone else’s thoughts.
Not entirely a joke because I read this piece from PC World’s Linux Line shortly after Chet’s comment and immediately thought of his request.
Definitely worth a read, and I completely agree with [...]
Perfect for a Friday: Spreadtweet
Many of us work for a large company that may or may not condone the use of Twitter at work.
You probably spend a third of your day a work though. So, how can you keep up with @oprah, @THE_REA_SHAQ and all your other Twitter friends?
Tweet with Spreadtweet (h/t Silicon Alley Insider), the Twitter client that [...]
In Defense of Anonymous Commenting?
If you read here, you probably know I’m against anonymous commenting and generally against anonymity online.
If you know me IRL, you’ll understand this is part of who I am.
To call me direct is accurate, if not an understatement in many cases. I’m blunt and unedited and not very good at pretending. I learned long ago [...]
It Just Works
I’ve had a smidge of blogger’s block lately, and from experience, I know nothing gets people talking like a discussion about operating systems.
With Windows 7 RC on the horizon, Snow Leopard due later this year, and Jaunty already in RC and ready to drop any day, the next year or so will be full of [...]
Call for Post Ideas
I’m having serious blogger’s block lately.
There are plenty of topics I’d love to discuss but can’t, so I guess I’m just feeling gravity’s pull.
This blog has been around for a while now, and if you read here, you know it’s pretty much my opinions and stuff I think is interesting or cool mixed in with [...]
OpenWorld 2009 News
So, it’s only 170-some days until Oracle OpenWorld 2009, but if you’re into getting the worm, you’ll be happy to know that registration is open.
That was an early bird reference.
Anyway, you can get that coveted discount now until August 14, meaning you still have some time to talk your boss into letting you go. The [...]
What Do You Know about Creative Commons?
If you blog, you’re probably familiar with how weird it feels to be plagiarized.
It’s a given that if you blog long enough, someone will eventually copy and paste what you said without attributing it to you. There’s irony here because much of blogging is borderline original content anyway, myself included.
Still, the tenants of blogging are [...]
Musings on Relationship Symmetry in the Enterprise
The title sounds pretty highbrow academic. It’s funny to me.
Anyway, I just read that according to ComScore, Twitter grew 131% in March.
Insanity.
That number doesn’t include international or client-based usage. While I read through my feeds today, I got five new follows, all from people I don’t know. Oh, and there’s the whole Aston Kutcher vs. [...]
All Your Comments Are Belong to Us
H/t to Joel Garry for the AYB reference.
As I mentioned when I enabled the new Disqus Social Media Reactions feature earlier this month, comment aggregation is all the rage with bloggers. Commentary and discussion that used to be centered squarely in the comments on a blog can now happen in a bunch of other places [...]
Oracle DB on Mac? Yes You Can.
This announcement slipped past me last week, but if you subscribe to OraNA, you probably saw it already.
Oracle 10g has come to OS X Intel, and you can has.
According to Justin:
10.2.0.4 Database (Single Instance) Release for Apple MAC OS X on Intel x86-64 is now available for download on OTN.The physical media is to be [...]
Google Does Geolocation
I like geolocation.
At first, it seemed pretty creepy, but now, there’s a lot of potential for geo-based features that are both and good for you.
I write about geo-services quite a bit, and I’m a fan of services like Fire Eagle and Shizzow and BrightKite and all the others. They all have one problem for me [...]
Now with Video Comments
When I upgraded the Disqus widget, I didn’t mention that you can now leave video comments, thanks to the Disqus-Seesmic integration.
Rejoice.
Rich tested it out recently. He was speechless.
It’s pretty simple. Just click the Use Media link directly below the comment box and choose Record video. This link only appear below the main comment box, not [...]
What’s New with Connect?
Glad you asked, or didn’t either way, you’re still reading.
It’s been a long time since I blogged about new features on Connect. I know not everyone can see the goodness (or care), since it’s internal only. But I figure some of you might be interested anyway.
When last I wrote about Connect features, we were launching [...]
A Bit More on Our IE6 Stance
Rich’s April Fools’ post from last week has generated some discussion around how we (and developers in general) handle support for Internet Explorer 6.
Most of the discussion was between G and me, and then Friend of the ‘Lab John “I used to be the Ontario Emperor” Bredehoft weighed in with his two cents. In [...]
Miscellaneous Debris
It’s Friday. I’ve got a few items that might make a full post, but rather than squeeze blood out of a stone, I’ll resort to a miscellaneous debris post.
It’s not a link post, and it’s not a full post. It’s in between somewhere.
Since 1972
Josh Freese, drummer for DEVO, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails and [...]
Disqus Adds Comment Aggregation
I suppose I blog a lot about Disqus because we’ve been using it here for a while. I’ve gone back and forth about whether we should keep it, especially after WordPress introduced threaded comments.
Although I’m not in love with the idea of a) not owning the comments and b) taking a performance hit on every [...]
I’m switching back to IE6 and why you should too
I’m finally fed up with all the standards based, open source browser, google chrome-whatchamacallit, firefox, safari bs crap. I don’t want choice in browsers anymore. Especially since my ERP apps works better in IE than in any of the other crappy browsers out there. So, today, I’m switching back to the browser who made the [...]
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