Enterprise 2.0 2008 is going on now in Boston, and Oracle is a Diamond level sponsor. So, there are loads of Oracle people attending.
I got a request for Mix metrics on Friday for someone’s session today, so I spent several hours yesterday hacking together SQL queries. Protip: when you scope your next web app, plan [...]
Apparently, someone thinks this blog is an authorative source for Twitter information.
While browsing through our referrers for the past month, I noticed the Wikipedia listed, which struck me as odd, to say the least.
At first I thought someone had created an entry for AppsLab, which weirded me out, but it turns out that a post [...]
If you read here, you’ll know the ‘Lab’s history. If you don’t or you’re a new reader, here’s the quick skinny:
In June, we launched IdeaFactory to collect ideas inside the firewall.
In August, we added social networking to ideas inside the firewall and called it Connect.
In November, we added groups and questions to ideas and networking, [...]
Warning: This post is about Twitter, so if you don’t care about Twitter, stop reading here. Proceed at your own risk of boredom.
Last week, friends of the ‘Lab David Haimes and Michael Krigsman were exchanging some jabs over Twitter, about Twitter. Michael argues that Twitter’s frequent outages make it appear suspect if/when a business model [...]
Matt has provided the community with a sweet widget to track all the sessions that have been suggested for OpenWorld.
Since we deployed the session suggestion feature in early May, we’ve had 129 suggestions. You can view the full list on Mix, Latest and Greatest. One reason Matt built the widget, which pulls the Latest RSS [...]
The annual Portland Rose Festival is going on now, although Summer didn’t get the memo. You can see the carnival and rides along the western bank of the Willamette.
Chief among the rides is this monster, which looks even more sinister in this picture (courtesy of joshualane on Flickr), than in real life. It’s basically four [...]
I was wrong. You were right. I’m ugly. You’re pretty. I’m dumb. You’re smart. I fail. You rule.
Almost a year ago, I riffed on the death of email. Apparently, email didn’t get the message, and rumors of its demise were exaggerated.
While Generation Y thinks email is for old farts, it still serves as the single [...]
By way of Mashable, I give you another stunning and addictive data visualization, Tag Galaxy.
Based on the Flickr API, this Germany-based tool is simple to use. Start out by entering a tag, and you get a “galaxy” of related tags. Here’s the “oracle” galaxy:
Ironically, as I wrote my FAQ post on starting a blog, ORACLENERD was blogging his termination.
The reason, his blog.
The coincidence is multi-fold:
The ‘NERD underlines why enterprise people are generally wary of blogs–writing blogs, having blogs written about their company, having people who work at their company write blogs.
The only reason I know about the ‘NERD [...]
Here’s the second installment in my AppsLab FAQ series. The first was a huge success, 0 comments.
This installment focuses on another question I get asked a lot, “How do I start a blog?” or some variant. Typically, I answer with a question like “Why do you need a blog?” to get into the motivation behind [...]
I wanted to share funny story from Friday. After WebVisions, I headed over to Beer and Blog, a weekly Friday gathering of local bloggers at a local brew pub here in Portland. The brainchild of Justin Kistner, these working sessions are as much social gatherings as they are instructional workshops, and that’s how we like [...]
I just realized that I’m nearly at the one year anniversary of my very first post. Interestingly, at least to me, I’ve blogged about 350 times since then.
That’s nearly one per day. Blogging is harder than it looks.
What do you think of our last year of blogging? Anything you’d like to see done differently, or [...]
I spent Thursday and Friday attending WebVisions here in beautiful Portland at the Oregon Convention Center.
I really enjoyed the event; it was a nice change of pace from the massive events I usually attend at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The content was just as good, but it had a more cozy feel. Very Portland, [...]
I’m attending WebVisions here in Portland Thursday and Friday. Good stuff so far, and very different than those mega-conferences I’m used to at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Rather than let you pine for content, here’s a taste of something new. Some of you may know that I made a guest apperance on Web Worker Daily [...]
I’ve decided to start a periodic feature I call AppsLab FAQ, which serves several purposes.
First, it gives me topics to blog when I’m short on ideas, which happens frequently.
Second, it gives me a permanent place to store experiences and lessons learned in a given subject area. So, the next time I get asked the question, [...]
Last week, I alluded to Twitter as a place to get and barter for invitations to beta services. It may surprise you to know that Twitter has been up and down more than normal lately.
Well, turns out blogs are often a good place to get beta invites too.
I have invitations to several services that may [...]
My wife introduced a theory to me years ago. She observed that certain odd themes tend to repeat themselves in high frequency over the course of about a week, then disappear back into obscurity.
Her theory was that if you apply numerology to these coincidences, you could translate chance into good fortune, e.g. using the coincidences [...]
This year is not last year.
Last year, I spent hours talking Web 2.0 to teams in development. Collectively, we probably held 20 or so educational sessions and then a similar number of follow up roundtables to discuss ideas spawned by the first session.
This year, I’ve been spending days collecting requirements of teams that want to [...]
I’ve been so very busy lately, but not with bloggable activity. This week has been slow on Mix news; ENTP is putting the finishing touches on a big feature, and we did deploy a few bug fixes.
I did finally catch up on feed reading from a month ago, and a post from friend of the [...]
At Web 2.0 Expo about a month ago, Rich, Paul and I all attended a fascinating session called “Children of Flickr: Making the Massively Multiplayer Social Web“. Aside from being interesting, it reenergized me on my quest to make work more fun.
Then, daily operational stuff intervened. I managed to rush some thoughts onto virtual paper, [...]
