First, it was Steve Ballmer. Now, Eric Schmidt? What is going on here?
I’m surprised Eric would want to befriend me, since I called him coy in this space not once, but twice.
Maybe he wants to hire me and doesn’t know I have no PhD, or even masters. D’oh.
Seriously, can anyone shed some light on this [...]
More maps for the data visualization junkies, I can’t believe I forgot to share this social networking map of the world from Valleywag.
Full-size original.
By way of O’Reilly, this is cool, if you like data visualization. Internet Architects, a Japan-based design firm, maps “the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective” to the Tokyo metro system, complete with placement symbolism for insiders.
Another tidbit from last week, is this article from [...]
Mashable reported yesterday that MySpace was blocking the letter “i” in all MySpace blogs and replacing all the i’s with “..”.
Courtesy of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
Yesterday, OTN released the Oracle DBA Toolbar (screenshot) for Firefox and IE. A great little tool for any Oracle DBA. Kudos to Justin and his OTN crew for delivering innovative, useful tools for our customers.
Readers of this space may be sick of hearing about OpenSearch plugins, but like it or not, people find them useful. [...]
As many of you know, Rich built a cool site we have been using internally called IdeaFactory. Adoption internally has been astounding. We have tapped into a well of pent up expertise. It is proof that the 1:1 model of sharing (i.e. email your boss a good idea) just doesn’t work. [...]
Business Week has an article today about Google Apps. The suite looks more complete every day. Witness the Postini acquisition, the anticipated release of presentations (a combination of Zenter, Tonic Systems and probably some homegrown mojo too) this summer, the integration of JotSpot features and now, enterprise YouTube.
This one jumped off the page for [...]
IM/SMS as an interface to traditional applications is hot stuff. Think how useful this could be inside the firewall… create/approve expense reports via IM/SMS, look up a contact through IM/SMS, etc.
20 competitors in the field! Who’s going to aggregate all these aggregators?
"Salesbuilder is a Sales Force Automation application that demonstrates local persistence using the embedded SQLite database, data synchronization, native drag-and-drop, and other features such as direct chart manipulation."
Lost over the weekend was a del.icio.us link from Rich to PeopleSoft Search. ChiliJoe has put together a sweet combination of a Google Custom Search Engine and OpenSearch plugins to make it easier to find PeopleSoft technical content. Eddie Awad has a custom search engine for his OraNA news aggregregator as well.
A Google Custom [...]
The reaction to the MetaLink plugin has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks to all who have linked, commented or downloaded. It seems we’ve tapped a reservoir of productivity tools that have existed for a while, but haven’t been shared. I’m interested to know if you have browser plugins or add-ons that make you [...]
A friend of mine saw the MetaLink plugin post I did and asked about currency conversion with a plugin. Many people may already know that Google does conversions if you pass it a certain sequence of keywords. Both IE7 and FF2 ship with a Google OpenSearch plugin, and the FF one implements search [...]
Fellow AppsLabb’er Rich, just informed me via IM (which is so 1999, why aren’t we Twittering?), that Steve Ballmer friended him on Facebook. Turns out that both Paul (AppsLab poobah) and I were also friended by Steve.
Maybe the rumor is true, and Microsoft is digging out $6 billion for Facebook (Techmeme coverage). [...]
The Tour de France Live Tracker is a mashup between Google Maps and telmetric live data. Watch the exact position and additional data (heart rate, cadence, speed, power) of the racing cyclists on an interactive map. This is a great example of making data
By way of John Battelle, Googleblogoscoped and Waxy. DEC gives us a great prediction of things to come.
Remember the DEC Alpha? It wasn’t forced to compete with unknown companies, unless you consider Intel a little company. I do like seeing the classic Mosaic browser in action. I’m reminded of the Internet Archive [...]
A timely announcement from our friends at the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog today says that Firefox 2 is certified for use with E-Business Suite versions 11.5.9, 11.5.10 and 12. Internet Explorer 7 was already certified for these flavors.
For those EBS readers who have installed my MetaLink search plugin, you can use it to [...]
Do you use the search box in your browser? If you’re not familiar with it, here’s what it looks like in Firefox 2:
And in Internet Explorer 7:
If you don’t use these boxes, you should. They save loads of time. Surprisingly, both use a standard called OpenSearch that allows for quick and [...]
In case you’ve been wondering, I collect these stories, and when I get a few, I dump them. Like it, don’t like it, tell me in Comments.
Details on Taser’s XREP electric shotgun shell emerge
From Engadget, cool and frightening all at once.
Chinese Youth Killed By Cell Phone Battery Blast
It’s supposed to be in the high [...]
