Decision 07: (more…) vs. More

By Jake • Published on October 13th, 2007 • View Comments

Funny thing, Rich has a draft in WP called “Time to Give Jake a Break”. You’ll notice it hasn’t been published yet. We are really buried preparing for OpenWorld, so keeping this blog going has been tough.
The title put me in mind of the trucking term Jake Brake. Signs like this one have puzzled me [...]

Bloggers at OpenWorld

By Jake • Published on October 12th, 2007 • View Comments

I’m happy to announce that Oracle OpenWorld this year will be open to bloggers for the first time.
Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire city block covered by a huge tent (oh and the conference). Qualified bloggers can [...]

A River of Information Runs Through It

By Jake • Published on October 3rd, 2007 • View Comments

Recent coverage (NYT, Mashable) of FriendFeed reminded me of discussions we’ve had about Connect features. Basically, FriendFeed applies the Facebook News Feed feature to the entire Interwebs, or at the 23 services they integrate with today.
You have a(nother) network of friends. Everyone posts stuff to the FriendFeed, which aggregates the posts into a river of [...]

New Applications Strategy Blogs

By Jake • Published on September 19th, 2007 • View Comments

It’s my pleasure to welcome a couple new(ish), Applications Strategy blogs to the Oracle blogosphere.

Financials Strategy, written by the Financials Strategy team
Project Directions, written by the Projects Strategy team

In case you didn’t know (read the About), we (AppsLab) are part of the Applications Strategy organization, so these are teams we work with frequently. Whether or [...]

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