Connect as a Blogging Tool

Published on July 15th, 2008 View Comments

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 [...]

Opensocial with SSO for corporate users

Published on May 30th, 2008 View Comments

We work in Oracle, and we “eat our dog food” to use the Oracle Single Sign On.  As we work towards providing Opensocial capabilities to our internal networking site (Connect), we find that Opensocial fits very well with SSO within the corporate domain.
So, how does SSO help opensocial apps?  Well, if the backend of the [...]

OpenSocial’izing Our Apps

Published on April 17th, 2008 View Comments

Now that Jake has exposed our next venture, I thought I’d flesh out some more details on what we hope to accomplish by building our own OpenSocial container.  When OpenSocial came out, it all took us AppsLab’ers by surprise that Oracle was a founding member.  It wasn’t really a surprise that Google was building something [...]

What’s Next?

Published on April 17th, 2008 View Comments

Lately, our plans have started coming into focus. If you read here, you probably know we built Mix with ThoughtWorks back in November. Since January, Marketing has been making plans to use Mix a lot more heavily, starting with this year’s Openworld.
Yesterday, I told you about the project and the new direct messaging feature built [...]

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