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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Eddie Awad today posted a list of Oracle blogs ranked by Technorati Authority. AppsLab is 45 on his list. The list ranks all the blogs he aggregates using OraNA aggregator. I have embedded his Google Spreadsheet below; Eddie, I hope that’s fine with you.
Tom Kyte, no surprise, is number 1. [...]
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Maybe Eric Schmidt was reading this blog over the weekend. On Saturday, I observed that Eric was being coy when he called the enterprise an agreed that the enterprise was a backup plan for Google, just in case that whole advertising thing doesn’t pan out as planned.
Today, Google announced it is acquiring Postini to [...]
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Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google Operating System has a post about Socialstream, a new kind of social network, created by a project in the Master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and sponsored by Google. Don’t the already have a orkut that’s kind of a big deal in Brazil?
Anyway, the feature [...]
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Check out this gem from the online banking registration of a credit union, by way of Tom Kyte:
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Foracleappslab.com%2F2007%2F07%2F07%2Fa-security-gem%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘A+Security+Gem’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Not really a surprise, JotSpot to become part of Google Apps
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I read today that Google Apps will soon include the features acquired from JotSpot. Not that big a surprise, but adding wikis and web site building capabilities to Google Apps will make them even more compelling in comparison to Microsoft Office. I hope Docs and Spreadsheets will be graced with these features, too.
Anyway, [...]
Not really a surprise, JotSpot to become part of Google Apps
Some performance updates re: jRuby… more hope that jRuby is going to be the main RoR platform in the enterprise. Check out the perf numbers.
If you love to build Web 2.0 style applications (preferably using Ruby on Rails), we’re interested in you. We’re a small team inside Oracle that’s focused on applying “2.0″ style concepts to our apps and possibly building new enterprise applications. We’re looking for someone who has a strong background with Ruby on Rails, [...]
Paul, Jake and I were chatting a few weeks ago wondering how we can establish an ongoing dialog with our peers in product strategy and capture the innovative ideas they have for our future products. We thought of several ways to do this:
Having conference calls to exchange ideas on a regular basis
Inviting our peers [...]
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Jeff Nolan addresses an issue that many others (e.g. Robert Scoble, Anshu Sharma) have begun to complain about recently. Namely, there are too many social networks to use realistically, and no one has adequately addressed the requirement for a cross-network identity management tool. For people in a position to give advice on [...]
"I don?t fear a future where life is experienced from behind a screen but one where nobody is comfortable being alone with their thoughts."
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I broke down and bought one for my wife, a longtime smartphone user, to replace her Treo 680, which isn’t very old. Palm has already released a couple newer Treos, so even at less than a year old, that little guy was a relic.
Leading up to June 29, I got more and more sick [...]
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I’ve been following Facebook closely since the platform launch in May, especially the enterprise aspects and Facebook as an alternative to LinkedIn for professionals. Rather than do a giant brain dump, I’ll post a piece each day (or so) until I’m tapped.
The best place to start is with the platform. I covered this briefly [...]
Steve Chan, one of the most read and hardest working bloggers in the Oracle blogosphere, has been plagiarized by some chump. I won’t give this loser any air time by pointing to his post, blog (comments turned off, what a surprise) or website.
Note to chump: a quick whois and traceroute tell me who you [...]
Wind-powered phone charger
Courtesy of Geeks are Sexy
How to Crash Windows Vista in 10 Seconds or Less
Courtesy of Information Week and the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Foracleappslab.com%2F2007%2F07%2F02%2Fgadgethumor-break%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Gadget%2FHumor+Break’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Thanks to Justin, editor of Oracle Technology Network (OTN), for his post on our internal Idea Factory. We hope the factory generates good feedback; we know some of the 70,000 people who work here have killer ideas. Now, we’re trying to mine them.
Justin has been building OTN into the largest online community of [...]
