… and you know it. I’m sure we have enough geeky readers here that know what I’m talking about. For those that don’t (you suck) — Vi, simply put, is the best damn text editor ever created. A couple of weeks ago a poll was started on OraTweet regarding Vi vs. Emacs: How could there… Read More
Facebook Hits the Mainstream
If you read here, you’re probably on the leading, if not bleeding, edge of the early adoption curve. Bit of a mixed metaphor, so let’s say early adopter scythe. Anyway, Facebook is old news. For about the last year or so, I’ve rarely logged into Facebook; I guess the sheep-throwing and incessant poking and super-poking… Read More
Why Stickers are My New Business Card
With the memory of OpenWorld fading, I wanted to riff on one thing I noticed and found interesting last week. Stickers, or rather the lack of them. Rich and and I whipped up a last-minute plan to produce some stickers right before OpenWorld, and many of you were the beneficiaries last week. I added the… Read More
Final Observations from OpenWorld 2008
So now OpenWorld 2008 is over, and San Franciscans rejoice as Howard Street reopens between 3rd and 4th, or at least it will soon. I missed my Wednesday recap, since we spent Thursday sequestered in that same old conference room in Pleasanton. Not a lot happened for me on Wednesday. Rich and I trolled the… Read More
And More OpenWorld
Tuesday was a lighter schedule for me, but not without its drama. My geek-speak Unconference session, which continues to bounce around Indian blogs, was at 10 AM, and I arrived in the room 40 minutes in advance, JIC. Good thing because I had forgotten the Mini DVI-VGA adapter for my Macbook. For those who haven’t… Read More
OpenWorld Continues
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… Read More
OpenWorld Begins
Rather than blog the events of an entire day, I’ve decided to dump my thoughts periodically. This is more effective for me anyway, since to remember anything lately, I feel like I need to forget something else. So, a memory dump will happen eventually, better (or worse, depending) to get it recorded before the inevitable… Read More
Essential Geek-Speak Session Rescheduled
To avoid overlapping with Larry’s keynote on Wednesday afternoon, as promised, I have rescheduled my Unconference session, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!” to Tuesday morning at 10 AM in Moscone West, 3rd floor, Overlook C. If you’re interested, check out the slides on SlideShare. If you make it, stop by and say hello.
Mix to the Rescue
On my way to PDX, I caught this tweet from the OCP Advisor (aka Mohan Dutt): Naturally intrigued, I clicked through on the link to find an “idea” from Debra Lilley called simply: Get me out of this lift, please , stuck in lift #11 at the Marriott Eagle-eyed users of Mix, namely John Bedford,… Read More
Geek-Speak Observations
By this time tomorrow, I’ll be winging my way to the Bay Area for OpenWorld. One of the first things I need to do tomorrow is race to the Unconference onsite signups in Moscone West and move my Essential Geek-Speak session to a better time, like say one that doesn’t overlap with Larry’s keynote. You… Read More
AppsLab Stickers!!!
Another last minute update… at 10:56am PDT today, Jake suggested we get stickers for next week. I thought it was a fabulous idea. So, I immediately went to work at creating a sticker design. In a few minutes I cranked this out: This design was set at 1″ x 2.5″ — a perfect size to… Read More
AppsLab Hackathon
So, yet another last-minute OpenWorld announcement, but that’s how we roll. We’re going to host an informal hackathon at the OTN Lounge during the conference. The OTN Lounge will be in Moscone West, Third Floor, coincidentally right near the Unconference sessions, which should work out well. So, we’re calling it informal because Rich, Anthony and… Read More
Oracle Listens Launches
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
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