Here comes another installment in my FAQ series. This one isn’t a question I get asked, but rather one I ask. Inevitably, when you start a community or release an application to customers, you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the blessing of three groups within your company. Human Resources Legal Security In any size… Read More
Author: Jake
a.k.a.:jkuramot
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 session… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Halp! I Can’t Figure out the iPhone Contract.
Update: This post could easily have been all about the failday (or iPocalypse as Gizmodo is calling it) Apple and AT&T had. Not since Firefox 3 download day have we seen a fail of these proportions. No one was exempt: those waiting in line, those updating a 2G iPhone, those trying to activate iPhones for… Read More
IPhone 2.0 Lands
Earlier today, Gizmodo leaked the iPhone 2.0 firmware. This update, in conjunction with the iTunes 7.7 release that revealed the long anticipated App Store have allowed me to install apps on my lowly, outmoded iPhone 2G. I’m now reveling in the geeky pleasure of controlling my iTunes library from my iPhone, using the free Remote… Read More
Blogggin: Ur Doin It Rong
One of my favorite memes is LOLcats. I never get tired of them. It’s a gift that keeps on giving. I had hoped to find a hilarious “ur doin it rong” to go with blogging, but alas, you’ll have to be amused by these representative samples. Anyway, I have a few pet (pun intended) peeves… Read More
Groups are Grrrreat
Connect has been live for several weeks now. We spent only a few days running it concurrently with original Connect, and then Rich slapped redirects in place for the old URLs. It didn’t make much sense to maintain two instances Traffic, which had dwindled significantly has ramped back up to between 13-15,000 pageviews each week.… Read More
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… Read More
Why Is Calendar So Hard?
My recent move to Ubuntu over the long weekend has reminded me of a pet rant of mine, calendars. You’d think something so basic for every cross-section of users, from personal to every size business, would have an easy solution. But no. I’m a long time Palm Desktop user, long meaning I had one of… Read More
Taking the Plunge: Part 4
In case you haven’t had enough of my epic dumping of Windows for Ubuntu odyssey, here’s another installment. This is likely to be the last one, but no promises. This is my fist blog post from Ubuntu, not a huge deal, but still. I’m probably 75-80% of the way done, with a few holes yet… Read More
Taking the Plunge: Part 3
I decided earlier in the week that the long Fourth of July would be a great time to reimage my work laptop from XP to Ubuntu. A couple reasons for this: 1) I’m supposed to be off today, so I can muck around with my laptop without worrying about work stuff and 2) it’s a… Read More
Bring the Lightning
You may have noticed my irritation at ZDNet this week due to their borked podcast of Paul’s appearance at the Churchill Club a few weeks ago. Everything is cool now, thanks to one Dennis Howlett. A few things were wrong about this whole thing. First, I left a comment Monday about the podcast being borked;… Read More
AppsLab FAQ: How Do I Start a Community?
I’m sure Justin has tips on this one to add. Maybe he’ll chime in now that the Oracle blogs migration has ended; by the way, I’m really peeved that OraNA.info is clogged with reposts from Oracle blogs. Not really, but it’s funny to me. Won’t someone please think of the children? But I digress. People… Read More
Taking the Plunge: Part 2
Over the weekend, I finally made the decision to reimage my laptop, which currently runs XP, to Ubuntu 8.04, fondly known as Hardy Heron. Well, I dragged my feet, and the weekend ended; XP must not have got the memo because it’s being more temperamental than normal. It’s complaining about disk space on C; it’s… Read More
Green is the New Black
I’m sure that phrase has been used somewhere else, hopefully under Creative Commons. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the green movement has gone from non-existent to a hot-button topic seemingly overnight? The recent Tesla factory announcement has me thinking green lately. I know it’s been around for decades; I’ve been… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Taking the Plunge
It’s ironic to me that D-Day for good old Windows XP is coming up on Monday, since for several months, I’ve been trying to motivate myself to dump it in favor of Ubuntu as the O/S on my work laptop. Tracking Dan’s recent jump into the Mac pond chronicled over Twitter and in his blog… Read More
AppsLab FAQ: How Do You Keep Track of All This Stuff?
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… Read More