While Yahoo has spent time and energy over the past year and a half trying several times to talk Facebook into a merger, Google has been curiously silent. Until, they recently snagged Brad Fitzpatrick from Six Apart. Fitzpatrick, known for founding LiveJournal and selling it to Six Apart, wasted no time laying down the gauntlet… Read More
My QuickConnect Card for OpenWorld
Jumping on the bandwagon, I’ve created my very own QuickConnect Card for OOW this year. Eddie and Carl have cards as well. I think this is the first time we’ve had something like this for OOW, and it seems like a good way to “schedule” ad hoc meetings with people that will be at Moscone.… Read More
Review: RailsSpace hits the Ruby on Rails learning sweet spot
Book on how to build social networking sites with Ruby on Rails
No iPhone, No Service
More iPhone goodness lately as the cool kids (namely me) get to have a sweet version of Facebook (iphone.facebook.com), which is way better than the generic mobile version, and Meebo (point your iPhone at meebo.com) for chat. Mashable has both Facebook and Meebo pictures. I would have taken my own, but that seems like work.… Read More
We Were Connect First!
I was excited to see that Dow Chemical launched a social network today. It sounds like a great project, joining Dow’s current and former employees, targeted at different demographics. I especially like targeting alumnae who left for family-related reasons. Great stuff all around, excellent case study of a brick/mortar company embracing new web. What’s the… Read More
Applications User Experience Wants You . . .
For a “new web” focus group. Apps UX as we fondly call them internally, is a team shepherded by Jeremy Ashley, focused on making our Applications better. They are looking for Oracle employees and non-employees with experience and zest for new web. From the blurb they sent me: “The Applications User Experience Group at Oracle… Read More
11g Doc Gets a New Web Makeover
Yesterday, I blogged about 11g updates to documentation tools that Eddie and I have written. I just noticed that Justin has a post about the 11g documentation as well. Apparently, each page now features comments at the bottom. I had to check this out for myself, and sure enough, here it is. Don’t believe it?… Read More
Search Tools Updated for 11g
Eddie Awad has a post today that some of you will find useful. His Oracle Bookmarklets and search plugins now support the brand new 11g R1 documentation. The Oracle Documentation search plugin I posted also includes 11g R1 now, too. For those uninitiated, bookmarklets allow you to do some pretty sweet productivity tweaks using Javascript… Read More
Tuesday Humor: "Faceball: your face, our balls"
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
Tuesday Humor: “Faceball: your face, our balls”
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
A New Day
I woke today to a wave of coverage on our little Connect project from ZDNet, namely Dennis Howlett, Michael Krigsman and Larry Dignan. I will spend today riding this wave, hoping not to eat it. Interlude After we went alpha, we needed a name for our little project. In true new web fashion, we offered… Read More
Connect is Just the Beginning
Paul and I have blogged about our newly (alpha) launched social network within Oracle, and we have settled on a name, Connect. Anne Truitt Zelenka, who also blogs for Web Worker Daily, wrote about our experiment in her personal blog, although Tim got most of the airtime for his comment turned post. It’s OK, he… Read More
Spot the Hoax
After slogging through a full week’s worth of feeds and fighting the urge to use the Mark All as Read button several times, I have a fun idea. Despite this being a no-fun zone for a while, I want to play a round of spot the hoax. The game is simple. I’ve listed a handful… Read More
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
” Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0? | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
” Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0? | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
» Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0? | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
People Everthing Starts With
155,000 pageviews later, I’m finally able to blog about our little social network experiment, whose name is still in flux. When we started the band, we all agreed that new web was not about a list of technologies (blogs, wikis, forums, tags, foo), but instead that new web was about people. We agreed that a… Read More
Oracle Gets Social
Here on the AppsLab team we have always been big believers in the power of people as a design point in applications. My personal background is in the portal space, and for years we preached people-centric. In those days, it meant a user had a configurable homepage with all the content they cared about in… Read More
Fake Steve Jobs Outed
I was so sad to hear the news that FSJ had been outed by Brad Stone of the NYT. Apparently, Daniel Lyons, a writer for Forbes, no less, has been moonlighting as FSJ. Why does this make me sad? Let me count the ways: I have to assume you read FSJ. If you don’t, you… Read More