Author: Jake

As a lover of data visualization, I couldn’t resist sharing this one from Stephen Von Worley depicting the evolution of beloved Crayola crayons from their humble roots as an eight-pack of fun in 1903 to today’s 120-pack. I’m a total data geek, which is why I love data visualizations. I couldn’t help looking for patterns… Read More

Ever heard of a company called Next Jump? Me neither until I read this piece in the New York Times (h/t TechCrunch) last week. Next Jump had stayed stealth for 15 years, raising $45 million in venture money and hiring 225 people, all the while signing 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. Not too… Read More

In case you’re following along at home, Vince has posted the second installment in his “What is WebCenter” series. You can find the first part here. So far, he’s kept it pretty high level, which makes sense. I expect that in future parts he’ll dive into the nitty gritty details a bit more, e.g. he… Read More

If you follow me on Twitter (@jkuramot), you might already know that my iPhone, the OG version, is failing. I noticed last week it wasn’t charging or syncing over USB. I performed all the usual tests to trap the problem–swapped cables, swapped ports on the Mac and on my USB hubs, swapped ports on my… Read More

A little while back, Chet (@oraclenerd) asked the Oracle WebCenter account (@oraclewebcenter) over Twitter, “What is WebCenter?” Makes sense since Chet, and many others out there, are general Oracle practitioners, meaning they may specialize in a specific product, but are always curious and eager to expand their knowledge to other Oracle products, which is very… Read More

Thanks to Reader, today I found this piece (h/t Slashdot and Lifehacker) by a freelance writer asking whether her aol.com email address was hopelessly square and dated. I noticed this post initially because I can’t think of a single contact of mine with an aol.com address. I used to help a friend with AOL about five… Read More

Cue the jokes. So, Chet (@oraclenerd) floated this notion, originally proposed in the NYT, and it’s completely true. Check the evidence: $25 million from Google and Microsoft to pump the firehose of tweets into search results, a full ecosystem built around the Twitter API, even an apps marketplace, Oneforty, built around the ecosystem. Incidentally, Oneforty, the… Read More

I know I predicted that geo would be left at the altar 2010, but I think there’s huge potential in geo services. Dissecting my prediction, I’m forecasting gang-busting growth for the “where-am-I” use case. Along those lines, I give you Photocheck.in (h/t TechCrunch), which hits two of my favorite things: geo and APIs. In very… Read More

I noticed a comment came on Connect this week from a skeptic. Someone had posted this video of Seth Godin, and among the positive comments was one skeptic. The skeptic correctly identified Seth’s bent toward consumer use cases and the general lack of enterprise use cases when talking about Enterprise 2.0 or Social Media or… Read More

Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account. Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine… Read More

Channeling Seinfeld a bit, what’s up with stop lights lately? I don’t know much about stop lights, aside from using them, and I wouldn’t immediately think of them as a hotbed for innovation. Well, it’s a good thing that’s not my business because I’ve seen two separate innovations related to stop lights in the last… Read More

About a month ago, I mentioned John P’s install EBS posts over at ORACLENERD. A few other people have decided to follow along for giggles, prompting Chet (@oraclenerd) to declare a formal “EBS Challenge“. So far, here’s who’s participating: Chet Ted Simpson [blog|twitter] Marcin Przepiorowski [blog|twitter] Floyd Teter [blog|twitter] Interested in joining? Feel free, and… Read More

I’m stuck in this yearly cycle of wrap-up, prediction review and new predictions. John B. made an interesting point about predictions yesterday: Regarding tech predictions, the fascinating part isn’t WHETHER the predictions were right or wrong, but WHY they were right or wrong. I agree, especially since my track record is spotty. I guess the whys keep… Read More

Not entirely sure why I decided to predict events for 2009, probably because I did for 2008, which isn’t really an answer. I don’t recall why I ever decided to do predictions, but now it seems like a tradition. Anyway, since I did, why not dissect them and see how I fared in 2009? To recap,… Read More

With 2009 winding down quickly, I’m pleased to present you with that good old blogging tradition–the year-end wrap post. 2009 was an eventful year for us. Mostly noteworthy: we joined the WebCenter development team to work on the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, validating our work on Connect and Mix and minting us as a… Read More

So, after failing to bring this project home before Christmas, I picked it up again yesterday, unfortunately with the same results. I reached out to some people on the WebCenter team who could help, and the consensus was that I don’t have enough system resources to run the full stack on a single VM. Further… Read More

I don’t use Facebook much anymore. It’s become polluted with spam and annoying social games, not really my cup of tea. Even so, as far as I know, Facebook is the de facto way to connect with people you’ve lost touch with over the years. While attempting to do this for a few people from… Read More

Happy holidays everyone. I got you a heat map. Do you like it? I’m technically on vacation this week, but I cannot take a vacation from the Interwebs. While browsing feeds yesterday, I saw this post from Gizmodo titled “Foursquare, As Seen by the Predator”. My crush on foursquare is well-documented, and I’ve always liked… Read More

I really, really, really wanted to bring this whole project home with a triumphant ending today, erm late last night. It started out as a lark and has been a great learning experience, but it’s been hanging over my head since before Thanksgiving. I’ve got other, more important work to do, and I’m sure you’re… Read More

So, I’m in the home stretch installing WebCenter. Here’s the installation guide, if you’re following along at home. Yesterday, I got through the “Preparing to Install” steps, which consist mostly of running RCU to create the WebCenter schemas. I’m skipping the installation of JDeveloper for the time being. If I were using the VM in… Read More