It’s my pleasure to welcome a couple new(ish), Applications Strategy blogs to the Oracle blogosphere.
Financials Strategy, written by the Financials Strategy team
Project Directions, written by the Projects Strategy team
In case you didn’t know (read the About), we (AppsLab) are part of the Applications Strategy organization, so these are teams we work with frequently. Whether or [...]
I’ll start by saying what I like about Faceforce, the unofficial mashup between Salesforce.com and Facebook.
It’s a great example of ad hoc collaboration between two companies in what seems to be an unofficial way. Clara Shih, an AppExchange Product Manager at Salesforce.com and Todd Perry, a software engineer at Facebook, built this integration.
It’s a nice [...]
Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.
Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.
Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.
This year an unconference will be running in parallel to the official show agenda.
This wisdom-of-the-crowds tool is now being extended to all Salesforce clients, and will be fully available early next year.
As many know already, I’m not a fan of the term Enterprise 2.0. I think it’s derivative and boring, all at once. And yet, now people are building on it and advancing the version to 3.0.
I’m also not a fan of Web 2.0, but that one is livable. An email thread with Paul coined a [...]
Rich pinged me over IM this morning with some interesting articles comparing hedge funds to software companies. See here and here, really interesting stuff, possibly worth a blog post later, but not the focus here.
I got through O’Reilly blog post pretty fast; it’s about 400 words. I started the NYT article, but once I got [...]
All this talk about social software and swimming pools is making me crazy. We need more stupid pet postings on this blog. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but today is Friday and it’s time to lighten it up a bit.
I was looking through the numerous junk mail catalogs we got [...]
About a month ago, I blogged about the 11g R1 documentation’s Easter Egg feature, comments. At the time, I recall thinking this was a great, easy way to engage people, but wondered if anyone would a) comment or b) reply to comments.
Color me surprised. Today, Steeve Bisson blogged about comments he made to the [...]
Maybe you noticed our newest widget, it’s right down there on the right, just under the Archives. If you’re too lazy to look, here’s the shot.
This widget shows events that have been posted to our upcoming group, aptly called appslab. Anyone can join and use upcoming, and anyone can join and post events to the [...]
It should be noted that the application is not officially affiliated with either company.
Rich created an Oracle space over at satisfaction, a startup focused on crowdsourcing customer service.
Their site allows companies to give customers “people-power customer service”.
I know for a fact we already have real-live people in support, but the aim here is to facilitate an open conversational approach, centered around more general issues and questions, rather than [...]
Got innocently naive questions about Oracle? Ask some members of the community at getsatisfaction/oracle.
New web applied to product lifecycle
I’ve come across some interesting thoughts on productivity, creativity and physical space lately.
First, there’s this bit from Lifehacker about how ceiling height affects your thinking. The central finding of the research is that higher ceilings tend to foster abstract thought, whereas lower ceilings tend to encourage detailed thinking. Pretty cool.
Then today, there’s another bit that [...]
ZDNet has posted a short snippet of Paul’s commentary about Connect, after Dan Farber quizzed (and needled) him.
I lol’d when Paul said he had a team of developers who are web savvy. Rich apparently has cloned himself. Woo-hoo! Either that or I am now a web developer . . . bah?
Last weekend I was at my nephew’s 8th birthday party. As luck would have it, my sister had placed out a few jars of candy with a pen and paper so the kids could guess the number of items in each jar. The usual suspects of jelly bellies, gum, and mints were all [...]
Justin rightfully broke this story, and kudos to him for making it happen. Justin gets a lot of flack from bloggers and 2.0 types because he’s one of the voices of Oracle in the blogosphere. To his credit, he’s done more to turn the ship than any of us, while simultaneously get beat up internally [...]
