So, Billy and I had a whimsical dust–up over the differences (or lack thereof) between our approaches to the enterprise-ification of New Web. A few other voices chimed in too. Right, wrong, indifferent, it’s been a slow week. Mr. Long Tail, Chris Anderson, posted an entry yesterday that hits the core of the differences between… Read More
Category: general
Faceforce = Creepiness + Spam
I’ll start by saying what I like about Faceforce, the unofficial mashup between Salesforce.com and Facebook. It’s a great example of ad hoc collaboration between two companies in what seems to be an unofficial way. Clara Shih, an AppExchange Product Manager at Salesforce.com and Todd Perry, a software engineer at Facebook, built this integration. It’s… Read More
What’s in a Name?
As many know already, I’m not a fan of the term Enterprise 2.0. I think it’s derivative and boring, all at once. And yet, now people are building on it and advancing the version to 3.0. I’m also not a fan of Web 2.0, but that one is livable. An email thread with Paul coined… Read More
Office 2.0 Conference Review
Last Thursday and Friday I was at the Office 2.0 Conference in SF held at the St. Regis hotel. The event came off as a success and I enjoyed the venue, meeting new people and sharing my thoughts on the Enterprise Collaboration panel. I especially thought Dan Farber did a nice job keeping us on… Read More
Everything New is a Swimming Pool
Yesterday, I was having one of my usual days. Trying to convince people that we need to do something different and getting blocked at every turn. It’s incredible that no matter how good the idea, it will always be met with a challenge. It got me thinking…Are there any ideas that are SO good, that… Read More
Dilbert: The Powerful Anti-Meeting Spell
I need to share this right before I sit on the couch watching NFL goodness for the rest of the day. You’ll probably have 10 or so other references to this by the end of next week. Click through for the answer(s). Enjoy. Update: By way of O’Reilly Radar, I realized that the T&C prohibit… Read More
Too Busy to Innovate
I had a conversation with a product manager over IM today that got thinking big thoughts about stuff, you know, like Paul does. I’ve known this PM dude for years and worked with him while I was in development. Great guy, with massive doses of cynicism and negativity, at least when it comes to work.… Read More
Google Reader Updates
Mashable has a nice nexus post for me. They note (as I did) that: 1) Google Reader can now count up to 1000 and 2) That Reader now has search, which I also blogged about recently. Comparing the searches (i.e. the built-in one and the hacked together one), the integrated one is very nice. It… Read More
Our First Podcast
I was recently asked by Justin Kestlyn of OTN fame to participate in a techcast. It’s a short conversation around AppsLab, our charter and gives some insight into our projects and what we are all about. Take a listen if interested. -Paul
New Features for Connect Beta
Since we launched Connect alpha about three weeks ago, Rich has been adding new features in stealth mode leading up to our beta release, which should be finished sometime this week. We weren’t promoting the new features, just to see how people adopted them. This gave us a nice viral study, and it pointed out… Read More
How to Search Your Reader Feeds
I have returned from the land of home improvement projects to bring you this tasty Monday nugget. We at AppsLab are all big fans of Google Reader. You can find our OPML files on the About page, if you’re interested. They’re nothing like Scoble’s 600+ feeds, but each of us has a pretty hefty list… Read More
“For Your iPhone Only”
For those Oracle people who come here to read iPhone fodder, I’ve started an internal wiki to collect all the tips and tricks that have surfaced from Oracletes with iPhones. Drop me a note to get the 411. Rich is still jealous. However, he may be in luck. Paul may be taking AppsLab on the… Read More
Cage Match: Google vs. Facebook
While Yahoo has spent time and energy over the past year and a half trying several times to talk Facebook into a merger, Google has been curiously silent. Until, they recently snagged Brad Fitzpatrick from Six Apart. Fitzpatrick, known for founding LiveJournal and selling it to Six Apart, wasted no time laying down the gauntlet… Read More
A New Day
I woke today to a wave of coverage on our little Connect project from ZDNet, namely Dennis Howlett, Michael Krigsman and Larry Dignan. I will spend today riding this wave, hoping not to eat it. Interlude After we went alpha, we needed a name for our little project. In true new web fashion, we offered… Read More
Connect is Just the Beginning
Paul and I have blogged about our newly (alpha) launched social network within Oracle, and we have settled on a name, Connect. Anne Truitt Zelenka, who also blogs for Web Worker Daily, wrote about our experiment in her personal blog, although Tim got most of the airtime for his comment turned post. It’s OK, he… Read More
People Everthing Starts With
155,000 pageviews later, I’m finally able to blog about our little social network experiment, whose name is still in flux. When we started the band, we all agreed that new web was not about a list of technologies (blogs, wikis, forums, tags, foo), but instead that new web was about people. We agreed that a… Read More
Oracle Gets Social
Here on the AppsLab team we have always been big believers in the power of people as a design point in applications. My personal background is in the portal space, and for years we preached people-centric. In those days, it meant a user had a configurable homepage with all the content they cared about in… Read More
Bigger Ideas, Superbig Participation Part 2
It’s been a hectic couple of days. Thursday, I wrote about IdeaFactory, our internal new web think tank idea collector. At the end, I teased the introduction of a new project of ours. Shortly after my post we launched it in alpha, and suffice to say, we opened the floodgates. For now, the project will… Read More
Big Ideas, Bigger Participation
We debuted the IdeaFactory roughly a month ago, with Justin launching it for us. In that time, we’ve had: More than 9,000 page views. About 2,000 visits from over 1,000 unique visitors. An average time spent of 12 minutes per visit. An average of more than 4.5 pages viewed per visit. 45% of our visitors… Read More
More Oracle for Your Browser Search Bar
I promised more Oracle search plugins, and I’m happy to deliver 3 new ones today, Oracle Blogs, Oracle Documentation and Oracle Sites. You can install them here, along with the MetaLink plugin. If you’ve recently started reading, here’s the MetaLink plugin post.