Congratulations to the OpenWorld Session Winners
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.
More iPwnage
Disclaimer: Honestly, I love my iPhone. It still rules, and I wouldn’t own another smartphone. However, the cynical misanthrope in me loves to deconstruct the hype that surrounds the “God phone”.
On today’s agenda, two items: 1) the “Best phone for business. Ever.” claim and 2) more 3G nonsense.
For Business? Not yet. Maybe, Updates Follow
Beyond the [...]
Connect as a Blogging Tool
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 [...]
AppsLab Session at OpenWorld
The OpenWorld content catalog has been released, and even though the session schedule hasn’t been finalized yet, you can search and browse for sessions to begin planning your time.
Even though it looks like none of our suggested sessions will make the cut, you can still find AppsLab at OpenWorld. Just to clarify, this [...]
New Home for Oracle iPhone Stuff
About a year ago, I bought my wife an iPhone and then soon broke down and bought myself one. Since then, I’ve blogged several times about the little gadget, including a few posts on how it works for me as a work tool.
A large percentage of the traffic on this blog is due to iPhone [...]
Hurry up and Vote!
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 [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp on July 28
As Justin blogged yesterday, Oracle is hosting an Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp on July 28 at the big blue disk drives in Redwood Shores.
I won’t be able to make it, but Paul will be in attendance, along with Justin and the usual suspects. This should be an interesting event where attendees get a chance to interact [...]
Podcast from Paul’s Panel at the Churchill Club
Say that five times fast.
The podcast of Paul’s panel at the Churchill Club is available here, just in case you didn’t make it out to see him in person.
Thanks to Larry Dignan at Between the Lines and ZDNet for recording the panel discussion and posting the podcast. Note, the recording seems to be incomplete right [...]
Suggest a Session Ends on Monday
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 [...]
Connect V2 is Live
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 [...]
Find Paul at the Churchill Club on Tuesday, June 17
Paul told me about this a while back, and Google just reminded me.
He will be speaking at the Churchill Club on Tuesday, June 17 at 7 PM. The session is called From Dilbert to Dude: Succeeding with Web 2.0 Within the Enterprise.
Moderating the panel is Forrester analyst and Groundswell co-author Charlene Li. Also speaking [...]
Blogger Program Renewed for OpenWorld 2008
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is renewing the blogger program for OpenWorld 2008, which will be held at the Moscone Center in beautiful San Francisco, September 21 through 25, 2008.
Most of the operational details are the same as last year:
Oracle provides the conference pass to qualified bloggers.
Oracle does not cover travel or other expenses [...]
Suggest an OpenWorld Session Extended
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 [...]
Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic
About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails [...]
Even More Fun with Numbers
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 [...]
Play Name the Platform
If you read here, you’ll know the ‘Lab’s history. If you don’t or you’re a new reader, here’s the quick skinny:
In June, we launched IdeaFactory to collect ideas inside the firewall.
In August, we added social networking to ideas inside the firewall and called it Connect.
In November, we added groups and questions to ideas and networking, [...]
Mix Updates
Rich, ENTP and I spent last week fixing some issues in Mix that you may have seen. Suggest a session for OpenWorld has driven steady traffic into Mix, and we’re rushing to fix bugs that people have encountered.
Virtually all of the recent fixes have been around suggest a session, which makes sense because that’ where [...]
Kick People out of Your Groups
I missed this in last week’s broohaha about Suggest a Session, but you can finally remove members from a group. It’s been a long time coming and requested by many people. Insert your favorite excuse here.
If you are the group owner or an admin, you will now see a “Remove from group” link next to [...]
Suggest a Session is a Hit
Less than a week since we deployed it, the Suggest a Session for OpenWorld 2008 offer made by the Events team on Mix has been a big hit.
Traffic was up over 250% over the weekend, and the voting page is already among the top pages on Mix in terms of pageviews over the past 30 [...]
My First BarCamp
I spent portions of this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday attending my very first BarCamp, held here in Portland at CubeSpace.
The origins of BarCamp are interesting; back in 2005, O’Reilly held a user-generated conference called Foo Camp that was invite only. Lots of people wanted an invite (kind of like Web 2.0 Summit, ahem), but [...]
