As I teased earlier in the week, Rich has been cooking up Connect People Search for your iPhone. Last night, it went live.
This isn’t an iPhone app because, as we all know, there are a few issues preventing an app that requires behind the firewall access: 1) we can’t yet connect to VPN using the [...]
Justin teased this earlier in the month, and today, Oracle Listens took over oracle.com.
I’m glad they overcame the hiccups that initially postponed its launch, and I’m nervously waiting for a flood of email to hit our support distribution list.
If you read here, you’ll remember that we’ve shifted our focus to Connect, our internal social platform [...]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Someone sends an email to a distribution list. Someone replies to all, and people start asking for removal, also replying to all. Snarky comments ensue. Inbox is stuffed with replies to all.
You know the drill.
So, yesterday morning, someone sent an innocuous request to a sales distribution list, asking a [...]
While answering comments today, a separated at birth popped into my head for Google Chrome, the HAL 9000.
The Chrome logo is also very reminiscent of eyes the CG Transformers have in last year’s live-action movie. I don’t recall that Skynet had a logo, but I’m sure it would be the type of shiny eye [...]
I haven’t blogged about our OpenSocial progress since Rich finished up his last mockup revisions a few weeks ago.
Not a whole lot to report, Rich got pulled away to work on a Mix hardware upgrade for a week, then he took a well-deserved break. My guess is he’s refreshed and back cranking out the Javascript [...]
Browsing through Rich’s Google Reader Shared Items, I found we had both shared this post from the OpenSocial API Blog:
Let’s get this Partuza started!
Recently, as people have started to realize the utility of Connect as an OpenSocial container, we’ve been getting more requests for access to our development sandboxes. Developer rockstars inside the company like [...]
If you use Mix, you probably noticed something new today. Lost weight? Tan? Haircut?
Yes to all of the above, applied to a web app. Mix got a branding makeover last night, among other things, to reflect more closely its siblings in the *.oracle.com family.
You may have noticed less chatter on this channel about Mix. That’s [...]
I’ve been drilling OpenSocial for most of the year, talking about why our platforms (Mix and Connect) will be containers, explaining how it’s good for users and even better for developers.
Now, I have a couple examples that should stick.
Ed commented on my last mockups post:
OpenSocial is now officially my new latest favourite thing!
Two questions;
1) When’s [...]
Rich has finished a few more mockups of the changes we’re making to support OpenSocial.
Since our last episode, he’s finished the Profile page. Take a look.
One thing (other than location data, which will return soon, promise) people have been missing since we upgraded Connect to the Mix JRuby code line is status. More people than [...]
Last week, I asked you what OpenSocial apps you’d like to see in the Connect (and eventually Mix) app directory.
Which seeded apps? Any apps you’d like to build or see built? And generally, are you stoked about OpenSocial apps?
Not much in the comments, but somehow, I think there’s interest out there.
OpenSocial is a big deal [...]
If you’ve been away, welcome back, and by the way, I’ve been blogging our design process for the changes we need to make to support OpenSocial in Connect.
Today, Rich posted a few new mockups today of his vision for our Connect (and ultimately, Mix) OpenSocial UI.
The first mockup shows Rich’s vision for the OpenSocial app [...]
So, I promised to blog Rich’s UI mockups for the OpenSocial UI changes we’re planning, and even though posts about what we actually do here at the ‘Lab get way less traffic and comments than fun posts about which O/S would win in a fight, I’m keeping that promise.
Rich has made a lot of progress. [...]
So, as I mentioned last week, we’re putting the finishing touches on the OpenSocial work for Connect.
The OpenSocial container is finished and ready for app development right now. We just need to add an app directory and tweak the profile and home pages to accept OpenSocial apps.
One line item on our development plan is “populate [...]
You may have noticed more talk about what we’re doing and why lately.
Comments are down, so either this is exceedingly dull to you, or you completely agree and have nothing to add. Either way, as we move forward with our plan to deploy Connect as an OpenSocial container and update the UI to support OpenSocial [...]
Recently, even though we’ve been focusing on Connect and OpenSocial, but Mix hasn’t been standing still.
ENTP has been working to fix bugs and build features for Marketing that will be showcased heading into OpenWorld.
Last night, a slew of bug fixes and a new feature or two were deployed to Mix. If you’re a regular Mix [...]
So, Noel Portugal is at it again.
He has expanded his pet project, OraTweet, to include OraTweetBot, which he says is:
. . . an XMPP/Jabber bot built with Java that will listen for tweets and post them to Twitter or to a database.
I never use the XMPP/IM Twitter integration, but I know it’s more popular than [...]
I spent the day today with my AppsLab brethren sequestered like a jury in the Thunderball conference room in sunny Pleasanton, CA. Or maybe it’s Dublin.
Anyway, Paul called us all together to hunker down on some design work. Well, some new design and some redesign.
If you’re interested in the future of the Connect and eventually [...]
Since we started down this road last year launching Connect to go with the IdeaFactory, one common ask has been blogs.
Blogs are a cornerstone of Web 2.0, allowing anyone to publish content and anyone to participate. We discussed very early on whether we should provide a blogging platform, like multi-user WordPress or MoveableType, for internal [...]
Connect has been live for several weeks now. We spent only a few days running it concurrently with original Connect, and then Rich slapped redirects in place for the old URLs. It didn’t make much sense to maintain two instances
Traffic, which had dwindled significantly has ramped back up to between 13-15,000 pageviews each week. This [...]
I’m stoked to announce that we’ve opened our latest version of Connect, the internal community for employees, for beta testing.
If you’re an employee, find me through email or otherwise, and I’ll get you the URL. We’ll be redirecting all traffic from the old version of Connect very soon, in case you’re not in a hurry.
Big [...]
