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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last night, as promised, Rich deployed some new stuff built by ENTP, right before they headed to a midnight Iron Man showing. On a side note, is he really a superhero?
The shiny new feature is Suggest a Session. If you have an idea for a session you’d like to attend or present, bounce over to [...]
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Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is officially open. The massive conference is back in its Fall timeslot, September 21-25, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
This year’s shindig will include large doses of Mix, as previously teased. We’re planning to deploy some new features built by our friends at ENTP later this week (fingers [...]
The whole ‘Lab gathered in San Francisco last week to attend the Web 2.0 Expo, which explains why the content here has been stale for a week.
After a Monday huddle with Rich to plan the upgrade of Connect, our internal version social network and idea site to the Mix code line, we headed to Moscone [...]
The whole ‘Lab will be at Web 2.0 Expo next week, April 22-25 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
That’s the same venue as OpenWorld and pretty every other tech conference. In Denver, Paul riffed that he was sick of going to Moscone for conferences, something to the effect of “it’s getting old”. It is [...]
One of the changes we deployed this week to Mix was new icons on profile pages. We replaced the links that used to tell you “Edit your profile”, “Add to network”, “Remove from network” with snazzy, Web 2.0 style icons which showed a pen (for edit), a green plus sign (for add), a red x [...]
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