Book on how to build social networking sites with Ruby on Rails
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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. Besides [...]
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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 name [...]
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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 is [...]
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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? Go [...]
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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 in [...]
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
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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 our users [...]
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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 [...]
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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 of [...]
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
Interesting view on the enterprise and social networking.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 should, and [...]
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It’s been a hectic couple of days. Thursday, I wrote about IdeaFactory, our internal new web think tank idea collector. At the end, I teased the introduction of a new project of ours. Shortly after my post we launch it in alpha, and suffice to say, we opened the floodgates. For now, the project [...]
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I’m just now catching up on my feeds. FYI, it looks like Plaxo is set for a big announcement Monday, addressing social network profile aggregation and network segmentation. Must be true, Om Malik, Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble, the triad of truth have all covered it. Actually, Om didn’t cover it, but 2/3 works for [...]
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We debuted the IdeaFactory roughly a month ago, with Justin launching it for us. In that time, we’ve had:
More than 9,000 page views.
About 2,000 visits from over 1,000 unique visitors.
An average time spent of 12 minutes per visit.
An average of more than 4.5 pages viewed per visit.
45% of our visitors returned at least once.
38% of [...]
