Last week, FriendFeed added an IM feature, allowing you bring the information firehose into your favorite IM client.
I’m a fan of FriendFeed, but it’s very hard to control the noise level. Typically, each person you subscribe to has several streams of information, e.g. a blog, Twitter, Google Reader, etc., making the amount of noise significantly [...]
If you don’t use Twitter, proceed at your own risk of boredom.
If you’ve used Twitter for a while, specifically the web interface, you may have noticed you followers count fluctuates without any rhyme or reason. Well wonder no more.
I read about Qwitter in Mashable last week; it’s a very simple service that notifies you when [...]
Our guest blogger, Matt Topper, is a friend of the Lab, an ex-Oracle Ace, turned Oracle employee who always has something to say. He’s currently running the identity management team for Oracle’s National Security group, playing with Collok in his free time to fix the conference experience.
The other day Eddie tweeted that he was [...]
As is typical for me, the Monday of OpenWorld was the busiest. Now that it’s over, I can relax a bit. Yesterday was an action-packed day, so let’s hit the highlights. Roll the tape.
Our official session “Web 2.0 Technologies In the Enterprise: Lessons Learned, Tips, and Tricks from Oracle AppsLab” went pretty well. I’m not [...]
Not much is happening this week unrelated to OpenWorld, but Rich pointed me at something fun.
By now, you’re probably familiar with OraTweet, Noel’s side-project turned enterprise communication tool. I’ve blogged about it several times because I dig the garage innovation and it’s a perfect OpenSocial app tie-in to Connect. Most recently, coverage of TC50 winner [...]
I’ve spent a bit of quality time with Noel’s OraTweet this week, mostly because of Ed’s OpenSocial app development adventures.
Noel really has done a lot with OraTweet since June, when he first showed it to me. It’s got all the Twitter features you’d expect, and it has “groups”. Don’t get too excited, it’s more like [...]
OpenWorld is quickly approaching; it’s September 21-25, in case you don’t already know that.
You’ll recall that last year, we used Twitter quite a lot to socialize, meetup and broadcast the sessions. We used Craig Cmehil’s eventtrack side project to consolidate the tweets and other social clutter (videos, photos, etc.) into a single stream of OpenWorld [...]
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 [...]
This is meant to be an open thread, even though I’m adding it to the FAQ series.
We’re all learning this Intertubes thing as we go along, so how do you keep track of it all? More accurately, how can you possibly listen in on all the relevant conversations and filter out noise?
Conversation topics could be [...]
I love this type of story.
About a week ago, I get an email from Noel Portugal, a guy who works at Oracle and likes to hack around with APEX, Web 2.0 stuff, technology in general.
In one line that stuck out, Noel mentioned that he was recently “bitten” by the Web 2.0 bug and that Twitter [...]
Insert Twitter post disclaimer here.
I’ve noticed a humorous trend that you can use for a laugh.
People like to rant at Twitter, just check out twistori’s hate feed for samples. The beauty part of Twitter and its many clients is that it provides easy outlet for your frustration. Can’t get a piece of software configured? Flame [...]
If you’ve read and commented here in the past, you’ll have noticed we switched to Disqus to handle comments about two months ago.
Rich made the change, and I was initially skeptical because frankly I had no real idea of what switching would get us. Disqus has a few distinct advantages over the built-in Wordpress commenting [...]
Apparently, someone thinks this blog is an authorative source for Twitter information.
While browsing through our referrers for the past month, I noticed the Wikipedia listed, which struck me as odd, to say the least.
At first I thought someone had created an entry for AppsLab, which weirded me out, but it turns out that a post [...]
Warning: This post is about Twitter, so if you don’t care about Twitter, stop reading here. Proceed at your own risk of boredom.
Last week, friends of the ‘Lab David Haimes and Michael Krigsman were exchanging some jabs over Twitter, about Twitter. Michael argues that Twitter’s frequent outages make it appear suspect if/when a business model [...]
I’ve been so very busy lately, but not with bloggable activity. This week has been slow on Mix news; ENTP is putting the finishing touches on a big feature, and we did deploy a few bug fixes.
I did finally catch up on feed reading from a month ago, and a post from friend of the [...]
Hard to believe I haven’t blogged about Twitter in a while. Like New Web in general, Twitter has reached that cusp where early adopters are calling it “established” and new people are kicking the tires.
Lots of them.
The recent departure of Blaine Cook, Twitter’s former chief architect, could mean any number of things. Many speculate that [...]
I blogged about Fire Eagle last week. Remember? The service that stores and brokers your location and provides a host of APIs for anyone wanting to integrate location data into their web apps.
That post got 0 comments, which was a bit surprising. I thought Eddie or Dan or Matt would be geeked to check out [...]
I blogged about TripIt and Dopplr a while back; both services collect your travel plans, allow you to share them with people, and alert you when people in your network are nearby your stated location.
Until recently, you had to tell them both where you were. Then Yahoo released Fire Eagle into private beta in early [...]
After a slow Twitter weekend, I stumbled across a new Twitter tool, TwittEarth, via Mashable.
This is a beautiful representation of Twitter’s public timeline, similar to twittervision, but with goofy avatars in 3D. It reminds me a lot of the work stamen design has done with Digg, e.g. arc. The visualization shows how many people are [...]
If you don’t use Twitter or find it trivial and annoying, stop reading. This post will only cement what you already think.
I can’t be sure, since Twitter happens to be down for scheduled maintenance right now, but I first heard from Dennis Howlett that this week was superhero week on Twitter.
Later in the day, Sam [...]
