New Oracle Digg Clone
Matt Topper, a friend of the ‘Lab, launched an Oracle Digg clone on Friday at ora-click.com. He’s using Pligg, an Open Source Digg clone, as the backend, with a nice 2.0-style front end. I could live without the ads, but I know power/ping/pipe aren’t free.
We toyed with Pligg a while back when we were [...]
Recap of the Working Group’s First Call
I’m tardy with this recap of our first Working Group call, which happened on December 19. Seems like a lot more time has passed, and most of you, like me, are just coming out of a holiday non-work cocoon.
Anyway, the Working Group network currently has 236 members, thanks mostly to a nice post by Marshall [...]
New Web, New World
In the past, I’ve blogged about Twitter exchanges I’ve had with Craig Cmehil who works over at SAP. Yesterday, he, Ethan Jewett, who is an SAP BI consultant at an SAP and Oracle partner, and I had an interesting discussion about how to drive new web innovation internally. That conversation begot my post and one [...]
First Meeting of the Working Group
I’ve mentioned the group a couple times, and today, Paul announced the meeting details for the inaugural meeting of the Working Group our support group for new web practitioners. Bounce over and check it out, if you’ve not already.
The call will be held at 0900 PST on Wednesday, December 19, and the plan is to [...]
How Do You Do Enterprise 2.0?
Craig Cmehil, Ethan Jewett and I had an interesting conversation (over Twitter, natch) earlier today about demand for New Web tools like Twitter, social networking, social bookmarking inside the firewall.
Twitter’s 140 character limitation sometimes leads to convolution, but I think the core question was how do you approach internal demand for these tools? From the [...]
Shout Out from Sweden
Johan “The Killer App” Myrberger has a nice post on AppsLab today. He says some nice things about AppsLab and how we’ve influenced his views of Oracle. This line is classic:
I must admit I don’t know much about Oracle as a company. I know they have a database product, but apparently they do much more. [...]
The Working Group
I teased this in my last post on the Blogging Council, which struck me as similar in purpose, but different in execution, to Paul’s latest brain child, The Working Group.
The Working Group isn’t an Oracle thing or an AppsLab thing. If you’ve read here for more than a few weeks, you’ll know we encounter all [...]
What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?
Eddie’s Oracle People Map got me thinking about what I like about social networks and why some are more valuable to me than others. Data visualization is cool, and seeing where people are geographically is a trip.
I had coffee with Rick Turoczy, the Silicon Florist, today to talk about the tech scene in Portland, and [...]
Mix is for Everyone
Paul announced our new community, Oracle Mix, during OpenWorld. Rich blogged about the experience he and ThoughtWorks had building Mix in 4-ish weeks. Depending on whom you ask, Mix took anywhere from 6-3 weeks to execute, so it was a classic agile project.
Oh yeah, in case you didn’t know already, Mix is built in JRuby [...]
Back from OpenWorld
Sure, I got back from OpenWorld last Thursday, but I’m only now willing to get back in the saddle and blog about it. As I mentioned to a few of the Enterprise Irregulars who attended, OpenWorld is a marathon.
Imagine a full day sessions, quietly sitting and listening, tons of walking around San Francisco, meeting a [...]
Cool Stuff is Happening
If you read this blog, you’ll know I use Twitter, as do many of the people I interact with virtually.
Recently, Twitter and its use created a strange alliance that is a powerful case study for new web collaboration.
This alliance made up of a person from SAP, a person from Oracle, an Oracle customer, and a [...]
The OpenLab
When we started our Connect experiment in August, one goal we had for the project was to engage the tens of thousands of technical folks at Oracle in something new. We call it OpenLab, and it’s run like an Open Source project within Oracle. The only thing we ask participants to do is use free [...]
OpenWorld Blogger Update
So, a few updates for those interested in attending OpenWorld as a blogger.
The registration process is now working, and we have a few confirmed attendees, including Vinnie and Jeff, who have also graciously offered to help plan the agenda for bloggers, which I think is still in the works.
Because of the sheer number of attendees [...]
SoCal Fires: Why New Web isn’t Trivial
One of our readers pointed me to this mashup created by KPBS in San Diego that combines critical evacuation information like neighborhoods affected, closed roads, nearest evacuation center, etc. Yahoo News has a story on the mashup too.
This post has two points: 1) To spread the word about the mashup to anyone affected by the [...]
Debrief of Lunch 2.0
For those who haven’t caught the dozen or so self-promotional references, Oracle hosted Lunch 2.0 this afternoon at the silos in Redwood Shores. I struggled to explain to people what Lunch 2.0 is before the event, not having attended one myself, but now I have a better idea. If you’re interested, the San Francisco Chronicle [...]
FriendFeed Crosses the Streams
Recently, I blogged about FriendFeed, a new app that aggregates all your friend’s 2.0 activity into a single river of goodness, a la the Connect Activity Log or the Facebook News Feed.
In typical new web fashion, FriendFeed is in invite only beta now, and earlier in the week, I got my beta invite. The concept [...]
Review Recap
Will you be in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, namely Monday between 11 and 2? If so, stop by Lunch 2.0, which will be at Oracle for the first time, to mingle with AppsLab and other new web interested people. You can find details here. This should be a great chance to network, [...]
Does Web 2.0 Lead to Laziness?
Not a day after Puneet commented that I am “able to churn out so many high quality posts so often” (his words, unsolicited), I am having writer’s block.
I blame the Interwebs and Life in general for not being interesting enough today. So, in lieu of real content, I’m going to riff (tongue in cheek) on [...]
Remember Rockwell?
Some of you may remember Rockwell, a.k.a. Kenneth William Gordy, the son of Motown Records head Berry Gordy, and his only hit, “Somebody’s Watching Me“. Released in 1984, the song featured Michael and Jermaine Jackson singing chorus.
I always liked that song, and thanks to the Long Tail of music, this one-hit wonder gem lives on [...]
TiVo Gets 2.0 Makeover
I love my TiVo. The Fall 2007 Service Update that loaded the other day gave the grand old UI a New Web makeover, which I really appreciated. In typical New Web style, there are shadows and gradients, softer and darker colors, etc.
As with the NFL, TiVo is embracing the stylings of Web 2.0, which for [...]
