Mix is one year old today.
Seems like it’s been around forever, at least to me, but you’ll recall we launched it to very little fanfare at the beginning of OpenWorld 2007.
Mix didn’t really get much promotion at all until Marketing decided to solicit session ideas from the community for OpenWorld 2008 back in May. Over [...]
On my way to PDX, I caught this tweet from the OCP Advisor (aka Mohan Dutt):
Naturally intrigued, I clicked through on the link to find an “idea” from Debra Lilley called simply:
Get me out of this lift, please , stuck in lift #11 at the Marriott
Eagle-eyed users of Mix, namely John Bedford, an Oracle employee, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Now that the suggest a session for OpenWorld campaign has ended, it’s time to reflect on what we learned.
First off, thanks to everyone who submitted a session idea. There were 281 submitted before the deadline, and someone even figured out how to create a session after we closed the nomination form. Bonus points for ingenuity.
Now [...]
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 [...]
It’s finally official.
The winning sessions have been announced over at the OpenWorld blog. Congrats to the winners. The
Events team selected the top 25 vote-getters, and Lisa Stuart has already begun notifying the submitters via Mix.
Here are the winners ordered by number of votes. I’ve included links to the bloggers I know.
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Voting for suggested sessions for OpenWorld in September ends today over on Mix.
I can’t tell you exactly what time it will end. Being Sunday and all, Rich is probably busy having a weekend, but it will end today.
If you haven’t voted yet, head over and browse the list of sessions. Participation has been outstanding; we’ve [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick reminder that the deadline to suggest a session for Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is Monday, June 30.
We will be turning off the submissions end of day Pacific time. So, get your idea entered before then. Voting will continue until July 15 13.
If all goes well, we’re hoping to deploy a filtering feature to [...]
The submission and voting deadlines for OpenWorld 2008 sessions have been extended. Submissions must now be received by June 30, and voting now ends July 13.
The Events team decided that due to the popularity of the offer, it should be open longer. So, you have more time to get your session idea submitted and more [...]
Enterprise 2.0 2008 is going on now in Boston, and Oracle is a Diamond level sponsor. So, there are loads of Oracle people attending.
I got a request for Mix metrics on Friday for someone’s session today, so I spent several hours yesterday hacking together SQL queries. Protip: when you scope your next web app, plan [...]
