It’s Happens to Everyone Eventually
No one likes to admit failure, especially when duplicity is involved. The intertubes is rife with scams and hoaxes, and I’m pretty sure everyone reading has fallen for at least one at some point.
Case in point, today, I tried to download the bogus beta version of Chrome OS. Yes, it’s a hoax, so don’t get [...]
Miscellaneous Debris
So, we’ve got a lot going on lately, what with the move and all. We’ll try to keep the content rolling despite real work.
Rich attended Startup School 2009 over the weekend, and although he didn’t find much to blog about, you could try to rally him into a post by commenting or pestering him on [...]
You Got Your AppsLab in My WebCenter
A few weeks ago, I announced that our team was moving to WebCenter development.
Since then, several people have asked what our role would be specifically, many of you in person at OpenWorld. Now, I can tell you, since I finally know for sure.
We’ve been charged with the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, which, we’re hoping, [...]
Auto-Tuning the Spoken Word
The good thing about having a blog without a narrow focus is that I can blog about pretty much anything.
And I do.
Case in point, auto-tuning. Until a few months ago, I wasn’t familiar with the practice of auto-tuning, which applies effects to people’s voices. I guess it’s usually applied to singer’s voices to give them [...]
I Don’t Care What You Say, Foursquare Rules
I’ve been playing foursquare regularly for about a month now, and even though I was teased by several people (you know who you are) at OpenWorld last week, I’ll continue to play.
/me thumbs nose
If you’re not familiar, foursquare debuted at SXSW this Spring, and it’s currently the latest shiny object of the early adopter crowd. If [...]
OpenWorld Manifest: Days 3 and 4
The big show is over for another year, and San Franciscans are happy for the return of that critical block of Howard between 3rd and 4th.
As with every year, my show was pretty much over after Tuesday, leaving me with a couple sessions and lots of work to get done. Oh, and our annual team [...]
OpenWorld Manifest: Day 2
Wow, so it rained a bunch today, and it was windy. Like a tropical storm or something. Not the best weather for me, being umbrella-phobic and all. I nearly had my eye poked out a dozen times, not a good day to be anti-umbrella.
Anyway, here we go.
Tuesday, Day 2:
Woke up to rain and wind.
Looked out [...]
OpenWorld Manifest: Days 0 and 1
Even though many of you are either here in rainy San Francisco or are following OpenWorld via its many virtual channels (#oow09 on Twitter, OpenWorld Live, OraNA (and @orana), etc.), I figured I’d give you a list of what I’ve been doing.
Sunday, Day 0:
Landed around 11:30 in Oakland.
Spent 35 minutes in the Bay Bridge maze.
Saw [...]
OpenWorld Cometh
So, we’ll all be making the trip to OpenWorld in a few days.
I’m the only one on the team actually flying, but if you’re familiar with Bay Area traffic, you could argue that we’re all traveling (vs. commuting).
Anyway, I’m not sure of my exact itinerary, assuming you care, but due to our recent move to [...]
More Wave Reactions
Following Rich again with Google Wave coverage, I figured I should add some of my own impressions of Wave after using it for a bit.
First and foremost, Wave is a work in progress, and it may eventually live up to the potential we all saw in it after the demo at Google I/O in June. However, [...]
PhotoSketch Looks Awesome
After several days under the weather, I emerged today to several thousand unread feed items.
Normally to get through a lot of content, I scan the titles of the items for interesting stuff before reading further. Today, I think I passed up PhotoSketch (h/t Techmeme, Gizmodo) at least four times before it stuck, but when it did, [...]
Gazing into the Future of Tech
There are few things like predictions to spark some discussion, and I found a set of predictions about what everyday technology we won’t be using in a decade on TechRadar (h/t Digg) that I’m sure will produce some discussion.
If nothing else, it’ll get you thinking about the future and you’ll interact with your tech, which [...]
We’re Joining WebCenter
If you read here, you’ll know we got our start as a team focused on innovation within the development organization responsible for Oracle’s enterprise application product families.
Well, today we’re moving.
We are joining the WebCenter product development team, who have been a busy bunch this year, releasing Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g in July. To learn more [...]
Mayor of Simpleton
Lately, I’ve been playing with foursquare, the latest shiny object among early adopter types.
Foursquare is another location-based service, but it’s also a game that encourages you to check-in when you go places to earn badges and the coveted mayorship of a location.
The geo-geek in me likes the location bits, and the latent gamer likes the [...]
What’s the Best Way to Collect Ratings?
YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week.
YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it.
The data show that an overwhelming majority of the total ratings [...]
OpenWorld Update
Found out yesterday that I will in fact be making the trip to OpenWorld, which is rapidly approaching, October 11-15.
So now, I’m looking to fill my dance card with keynotes, sessions, both unconference and scheduled, and meetups. Any suggestions? Let me know in comments.
One thing I never miss is the blogger meetup, which will be [...]
Just Send Me an Email
I came to a revelation of sorts earlier in the week.
Email apps, not web apps, represent New Web for the enterprise. I suppose you could say Enterprise 2.0, but if you’ve been with me for a while, you know I steer clear of that term.
Work requires communication above all else. No communication, no work. Whether [...]
Finally Something Interesting, Google Chrome Frame
Google’s announcement of Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer today may not seem all that momentous. John sums it up what a lot of folks are probably thinking here:
What is Chrome Frame? According to the announcement, it’s an “open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.”
Sounds like John is right [...]
How Do You Get News Online?
Looking at my Reader this afternoon, it’s pretty close to 0 unread, which has been typical over the past few months.
I don’t know if it’s a lack of news or a lack of interest, but not much seems to catch my eye as post-worthy lately. So, I’ve been thinking about ways to branch out from [...]
Programming Note
So, we changed hosts last week, and now, Network Redux (@networkredux) in beautiful Portland, Oregon is handling our beloved blog.
If you’re wondering, it’s pronounced re-ducks, not re-do. That one always gets me.
Anyway, this move should clear up some of the issues we’ve had recently with downtime and running out of memory.
There have been some oddities, [...]
