Justin teased this earlier in the month, and today, Oracle Listens took over oracle.com. I’m glad they overcame the hiccups that initially postponed its launch, and I’m nervously waiting for a flood of email to hit our support distribution list. If you read here, you’ll remember that we’ve shifted our focus to Connect, our internal… Read More
Author: Jake
a.k.a.:jkuramot
Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Someone sends an email to a distribution list. Someone replies to all, and people start asking for removal, also replying to all. Snarky comments ensue. Inbox is stuffed with replies to all. You know the drill. So, yesterday morning, someone sent an innocuous request to a sales distribution… Read More
Collok.com Manages Your OpenWorld Schedule
A few weeks ago, I huddled with Matt and Eddie to chat about how we could do some whizzy-social-2.0 stuff for OpenWorld this year. The outcome was a lot of “this would be cool” and “just don’t have the time”. Well, Matt made some time anyway, and he’s soft-released Collok.com to help you manage your… Read More
Good Old Fashioned Vote Storm
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… Read More
Help Me Plan My Week
Inspired by Eddie, who blogged his schedule for next week, and others, I decided to wade into the OpenWorld show guide to set up my week. I had planned to use the Schedule Builder, but I guess that’s not for employees. So, I started combing the Content Catalog and soon got a headache trying to… Read More
Air Sharing Gives You iPhone File Sharing Goodness
The theme for today is file sharing apps that just work. While browsing The Silicon Florist in my feeds today, I saw a post from Rick about Air Sharing, an iPhone app built by Avatron Software a company based in Vancouver (WA not BC). As of yesterday, Air Sharing had 700,000 odd downloads in about… Read More
Dropbox is Sweet
Rich pointed me at this nugget yesterday. Dropbox is a small utility that solves a major pain point you’re familiar with if you have more than one computer or you’ve ever needed to transfer files between computers. At least once a week, I have to transfer files between my machines; this is an old problem… Read More
Yet Another Unconference Session
Late last week, we decided to do another session at the Unconference next week. Egad, is it that soon? If you read here, you know we’ve been plugging away with OpenSocial for several months. Since we’re not a product, we’ve been able to do all our work on the Connect+OpenSocial project in the open. So,… Read More
Unconference News and Preparation
So, I just finished my first cut at my slides for my OpenWorld Unconference session, which I’m tentatively calling, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!”. If you’re interested, check them out and give me feedback, comments, keeping in mind my goal is to educate by example, not give a comprehensive history. And to have… Read More
Rise of the Machines?
Ironically, the same day as my tongue-in-cheek post about Chrome and HAL, news that United Airlines’ stock was pummeled thanks to algorithms broke. After trying to write a short version of the story, I’m realizing it’s too complex. Here are the events in the sequence they’ve been reported by the Wall Street Journal: Late on… Read More
Separated at Birth?
While answering comments today, a separated at birth popped into my head for Google Chrome, the HAL 9000. The Chrome logo is also very reminiscent of eyes the CG Transformers have in last year’s live-action movie. I don’t recall that Skynet had a logo, but I’m sure it would be the type of shiny eye… Read More
Thoughts on Chrome
So, I decided to read the Chrome comic book, which was sent out to a select few influencers prior to the launch last week. I wanted to see what all the fuss is about, and a couple things intrigued me. First, since Chrome is Windows only, it must be pretty good to stay relevant in… Read More
Back to Work
So, I’ve returned from my staycation officially, and thanks to scheduled posts, it was almost like I never left. Everyone wins. I’ve made it through several hundred emails; incidentally, would you take a job that had in its description of responsibilities: To send and receive thousands of emails each month. Just wondering, since we all… Read More
The Wordle According to AppsLab
Earlier this year, a friend of the ‘Lab, let’s call him Jim, asked me to open up email subscriptions for this little blog so he could consume his AppsLab goodness by email. Through Jim’s crusading, we now have 17 subscribers by email. I think each of you should thank Jim with flowers or chocolates. Anyway,… Read More
OpenSocial Update
I haven’t blogged about our OpenSocial progress since Rich finished up his last mockup revisions a few weeks ago. Not a whole lot to report, Rich got pulled away to work on a Mix hardware upgrade for a week, then he took a well-deserved break. My guess is he’s refreshed and back cranking out the… Read More
Jumping into the Unconference
The Unconference at OpenWorld continues to fill up; Tuesdays advance slot are all full, and Wednesday is quickly filling up too. I noticed Raimonds added a session last week called “Using Ruby on Rails with legacy Oracle databases” on Thursday at 10 AM. If you’re still at the conference on Thursday, I highly recommend checking… Read More
What’s Left to Murder-Death-Kill?
You know it’s a good day when you can drop a Demolition Man reference. It’s a weird time right now. Intertubes-based communication is crowding older, established methods, and as digital natives (i.e. Millenials) enter the workforce, their preferred means for communicating are at odds with what we’re all used to using to, you know, do… Read More
Why Flickr Rules Even if You Don’t Share Photos
I love Flickr. It’s one of the original Web 2.0 poster-children for good reason. Beyond the API and the tagging and the sharing of images, Flickr has become my go-to resource for awesome pictures. Everyone knows that images make boring, more interesting. You know, that whole picture is worth a 1,000 word aphorism? When you… Read More
Taking a Staycation
I’m off on a staycation for a while. Since I’ll be at home, there’s a good chance it may turn into a workcation. I know it sounds weird, but the temptation to work is always there when you work from home. Sounds even crazier out loud. I’m sure the wife will box my ears if… Read More
The Art of Estimation
If you’ve worked in product management or consulting for any amount of time, you’re familiar with the estimation gremlin. I’ve always hated managing projects. For me, it’s too much whip-cracking and tattletaling, but it’s an unfortunate chore that I’ve been unable to avoid. If you worked on a project I managed, I’m really sorry. I… Read More