The debate about whether FeedBurner’s inclusion of FriendFeed subscribers is a good or bad thing has me thinking how to determine a person’s reputation and influence. As I keep saying, trust is the key component to New Web. Without trust, it’s difficult to build a community around anything. Reputation and influence are the next big… Read More
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I Need to Use FriendFeed More
Did anyone notice a larger than normal bump in their FeedBurner stats last week? Last week, the FeedBurner numbers shot up from about 1,000 readers to more than 1,500. I’m behind on my reading, but so far, I haven’t seen this covered anywhere but on the FriendFeed blog. Some movement in subscribers is common. However,… Read More
Vote for Sessions Launches
So, Tim mentioned last night that Oracle Mix had launched this year’s iteration of Suggest a Session. There are big changes from last year’s inaugural run. First off, it’s no longer called Suggest a Session, but rather Vote for Sessions. From the name, you can get an inkling of the biggest change, i.e. you won’t… Read More
Implications of the 90-9-1 Rule
Last week’s post on the 90-9-1 rule was pretty popular. It bounced around Twitter and FriendFeed, and thankfully, Disqus’ Reactions feature allowed me to track comments on it. So, like any good blogger, I’m going where the traffic is. The 90-9-1 rule interests me for a number of reasons beyond the obvious applications it has… Read More
I Like Shiny Things
I really do love new stuff, especially when it comes to software and has a “developer release” or “alpha” or “beta” tag on it. I can’t help it. I’ve tried to stay away from buggy releases, but I always come back, if only to feel like I’m playing with the latest, greatest version. Are you… Read More
The Race for Your Identity: Twitter vs Facebook
It’s been a while since I blogged over here, the last few months have been intense adding new members to my team in the national security group. We’ve been working on some really great projects that I’d love to talk about but I’d have to kill you. There is something new on the horizon that… Read More
Geolocation Edges Closer for Me
If you read here, you probably know I’m a fan of geolocation and its possibilities. Yeah, it’s creepy and risky, but then again, broadcasting your location is always risky, whether you do it via geolocation or Twitter, just ask Israel Hyman. In fact, if you tweet from an iPhone Twitter client that uses the location… Read More
OpenWorld 2009 Suggest a Session Starts June 16
Mark your calendars for June 16. The Oracle OpenWorld Blog announced today that Suggest a Session will be back on that day for this year’s mega-conference (which will be October 11-15, 2009 at Moscone in San Francisco as usual). If you recall, last year’s Suggest a Session for OpenWorld was a big hit. Confused? Here’s… Read More
Browsers Wars on Like Donkey Kong
I saw this post about how to provoke an argument with a geek from Wired on Digg, just as I was formulating this post about the escalating browser wars. Good timing, since debating which browser is best will undoubtedly start an argument. Anyway, the release of a developer version of Chrome for the Mac has… Read More
90-9-1 Rule Skews the New Web
You’ve probably heard of the 90-9-1 rule of communities, outlined here by Jakob Nielsen. If not, here’s the summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. News over the past couple weeks underscores this… Read More
OpenSocial in the Enterprise Session from Google I/O
As promised, Rich’s session from Google I/O has been posted, and I’ve embedded here for your viewing pleasure. It’s a panel so, if you don’t want to invest the full 60 minutes, you can skip to Rich’s demo, which happens between 13:24 and 20:59. He gives a quick demo of Connect and shares some OpenSocial… Read More
Jury Duty is a Broken Model
On Friday, I received a summons to appear for jury duty. First, let me say that I’m in favor of civic duty, the right to a jury trial, all that. I don’t think I’m the only one who dreads a summons to jury duty though. This is the first time I’ve been called in Oregon,… Read More
Google I/O Sessions Live
Some of the sessions from Google I/O have been posted, including the Wave breakout sessions. I know one of these conflicted with Rich’s panel session, “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”. Rich was both bummed he had to miss it and worried that after the morning’s rousing keynote, no one would show up for his session. Although… Read More
My Thoughts on Wave
Rich dumped his impressions and thoughts on Google Wave yesterday. Now it’s my turn. In a weird coincidence, I heard Soundgarden’s “My Wave” earlier today and immediately thought of Friend of the ‘Lab Floyd‘s penchant for beginning his posts with song lyrics. Not sure why he’s stopped doing that, it’s a great little calling card… Read More
OraTweet Ready for Flight
I mentioned a few weeks ago that OraTweet, Noel‘s mirco-blogging package built in APEX, would soon be released to the public after he made some tweaks to get it production-ready. Today, he unveiled it. You can download OraTweet here. It’s provided free of charge, as-is, and requires Oracle 10g or 11g and APEX 3.1.x or… Read More
The Enterprise Implications of Google Wave
Five minutes after I posted my Google Wave analysis, I ran into Dion Hinchcliffe’s excellent analysis of Google Wave. A must read for Enterprise 2.0 folks. This is exactly what I’m envisioning happening with Google Wave in the enterprise. It will become the “glue code” for the user experience. It won’t replace existing back-end apps,… Read More
Google Wave: The Killer Enterprise Apps Platform?
Last week’s Google I/O left me feeling very optimistic for what’s to come in the world of web apps. I don’t have a whole lot to add to the coverage of Google Wave and the other cool things disclosed at I/O. However, after seeing the demo of Google Wave, I couldn’t help but think of… Read More
Best Job in Tech?
So, Rich and Anthony are at Google I/O today, and I’m hearing everyone was blown away by Google Wave. Rich tweeted, IM’ed and finally called me to say how awesome it was. I’m now waiting to watch the hour-and-a-half demo that rocked so hard. I’m hoping Rich’s session went well. He was bummed that they… Read More
OpenID: WebVisions 2009
As promised, here’s the riveting second installment of my sort-of recap from WebVisions last week. On Friday last week, I went to the OpenID panel discussion, hosted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb and starring Scott Kveton, vice-chair of the OpenID foundation board of directors and bacon enthusiast, Chris Messina, community advocate for OpenID, OAuth, and… Read More
See Rich at Google I/O
A quick note, Rich will be presenting at Google I/O this Thursday on a panel called “OpenSocial in the Enterprise“. He’ll be sharing our experiences with OpenSocial and Connect. Although we haven’t yet released our OpenSocial container, Rich and Anthony have been tinkering with it for over a year and have a sandbox environment we’ve… Read More