The shelf-life of this post is rapidly fading. I would have blogged it sooner, but Paul wanted real work out of me this week. So, hey we have a new president here in the US of A. I loathe politics. So for the most part, I’ve tried to stay clear of all that ruckus since,… Read More
Tag: twitter
Social Hacking is Primetime
No sooner had the ink dried on my post about tweeting with care, than my feeds yielded this post from TechCrunch. The short version is that a phisher hacked into some poor dude’s Facebook account, then whipped up a friend-in-need story and tried to sucker one of his friends into sending money using FB chat.… Read More
Tweet with Care
This post features 95% more obvious than your average post, and as usual, insert Twitter disclaimer here. Obvious Point 1: Twitter is growing fast. According to Mashable (data from Compete), Twitter grew 752% in 2008 in terms of daily unique visitors, rising from about 500,000 uniques in January 2008 to 4.43 million in December. And… Read More
Posting to Twitter Now
Twitter isn’t for everyone. So, if it’s not for you, stop reading now. Recently, I created an account for this blog; if you want to follow, it’s theappslab, natch. Not sure why it took me so long to do that, but it’s there now. So, the obvious follow up question was what should we do… Read More
Washing Machine Hack!
As mentioned recently, I love geeking out and have a list of projects I’d like to work on, given the time. In comments, Matt threw out a bunch of his own to-do projects, and professed his affinity for “mating the physical world with the interwebs”. You’ve probably heard about the plants that tweet by now.… Read More
Add TweetSuite to Your Blog
By way of Mashable, comes a nifty Twitter+blog integration widget from Dan Zaralla for WordPress blogs, TweetSuite. You should stop reading at this point if you’re sick of hearing about Twitter. OK then. TweetSuite allows you to track tweets about your blog posts. How you ask, since most links on Twitter use a shortening service… Read More
kthxbai, I just deleted 99 of your twitter friends
No really, I just did it. 99 of your closest friends, if you have that many, are gone. Go ahead and check…I can wait. Well, not really, if you are logged in to your twitter account through your browser right now I could have. Ajaxian had an interesting article on everyone’s favorite microblogging site today. … Read More
Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?
Or maybe you did? I polled Twitter to see if anyone else noticed an influx of activity and friend requests from Facebook over the holidays, loosely interpreted as the end of December. Meg agreed, and everyone else wisely continued enjoying their seasonal free time. According to Hitwise, Facebook saw its highest ever daily traffic number… Read More
Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
I haven’t had much to say about work lately, but Rich provided a nice nugget today. He integrated OraTweet, Noel‘s internal, micro-blogging app with Connect’s Activity Log. So, now in addition to all the social activity and HR information we surface in the Log, you can also see the (Ora)tweets of your network, your groups… Read More
Google Friend Connect Adds Twitter
Hard to believe, but not everyone seems excited about Google Friend Connect or Facebook Connect or MySpaceID for that matter. Must be the time of year. Anyway, I remain excited about GFC because if nothing else, it adds social to any web site, which is something I think appeals to the vast majority of users.… Read More
Semantic Series of Tubes
The semantic web as a concept has been around for quite some time. It pre-dates, Web 2.0 in fact, even though people sometimes refer to it as Web 3.0 or some other term that denotes its place as the next-next evolution of “teh Intertubes”. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet (I know it’s funnier to… Read More
De-Friend Sounds Better than Remove
Mashable had a highly entertaining post earlier in the week called “12 Great Tales of De-Friending“. As social networking eases into the mainstream consciousness, awkward situations will arise, and since there’s no playbook, conventional wisdom or Miss Manners for social network interactions, stories of de-friending will continue to entertain us. Or not, depending on your… Read More
All a Twitter
Hot on the heals of news that Facebook and Twitter couldn’t agree on an acquisition deal, news broke yesterday that Twitter had purchased Values of n. So what? Values of n produces Stikkit and Sandy, two very useful and artfully designed products. According to Rael Dornfest, these services will become Twitter’s IP and will go… Read More
FriendFeed Brings the Firehose to IM
Last week, FriendFeed added an IM feature, allowing you bring the information firehose into your favorite IM client. I’m a fan of FriendFeed, but it’s very hard to control the noise level. Typically, each person you subscribe to has several streams of information, e.g. a blog, Twitter, Google Reader, etc., making the amount of noise… Read More
Qwitter Points out How Boring You Are
If you don’t use Twitter, proceed at your own risk of boredom. If you’ve used Twitter for a while, specifically the web interface, you may have noticed you followers count fluctuates without any rhyme or reason. Well wonder no more. I read about Qwitter in Mashable last week; it’s a very simple service that notifies… Read More
20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless
Our guest blogger, Matt Topper, is a friend of the Lab, an ex-Oracle Ace, turned Oracle employee who always has something to say. He’s currently running the identity management team for Oracle’s National Security group, playing with Collok in his free time to fix the conference experience. The other day Eddie tweeted that he was… 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
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
Social Observations, OraTweet Edition
I’ve spent a bit of quality time with Noel’s OraTweet this week, mostly because of Ed’s OpenSocial app development adventures. Noel really has done a lot with OraTweet since June, when he first showed it to me. It’s got all the Twitter features you’d expect, and it has “groups”. Don’t get too excited, it’s more… Read More
Want to Help Socialize OpenWorld?
OpenWorld is quickly approaching; it’s September 21-25, in case you don’t already know that. You’ll recall that last year, we used Twitter quite a lot to socialize, meetup and broadcast the sessions. We used Craig Cmehil‘s eventtrack side project to consolidate the tweets and other social clutter (videos, photos, etc.) into a single stream of… Read More