Written by Paul.
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Web 2.0 seems to get all the press these days. I kinda feel sorry for its less popular stepchild known as Enterprise 2.0. It smacks of some suit trying so hard to be cool and hip, but alas, we all know that enterprise software will never be the coolest thing around. [...]
Written by Jake.
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Since we launched Connect alpha about three weeks ago, Rich has been adding new features in stealth mode leading up to our beta release, which should be finished sometime this week. We weren’t promoting the new features, just to see how people adopted them. This gave us a nice viral study, and it pointed out [...]
Written by Jake.
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We all know what spam is by now, the digital variety, not the gelatin-coated mystery meat in a tin. The attendees of PodCamp2 in Pittsburgh have coined the term bacn to describe “email you want, but not right now”.
Examples of bacn:
Social network alerts
Electronic bill pay alerts
Basically anything you solicited by providing your email that is [...]
While Yahoo has spent time and energy over the past year and a half trying several times to talk Facebook into a merger, Google has been curiously silent.
Until, they recently snagged Brad Fitzpatrick from Six Apart. Fitzpatrick, known for founding LiveJournal and selling it to Six Apart, wasted no time laying down the gauntlet to [...]
Written by Jake.
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Jumping on the bandwagon, I’ve created my very own QuickConnect Card for OOW this year. Eddie and Carl have cards as well.
I think this is the first time we’ve had something like this for OOW, and it seems like a good way to “schedule” ad hoc meetings with people that will be at Moscone.
This [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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Tim Bonnemann and Marius Ciorea, two guys at Oracle corporate HQ, have started a Lunch 2.0 series with an Oracle spin. It’s modeled on Lunch 2.0, offering up discussion topics on new technologies, starting conversations around them and educating anyone who has an interest. The lunches have been a big hit so far, even though [...]
Written by Jake.
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As Justin pointed out yesterday, Oracle.com unveiled a very cool 2.0 (or dare I say, 2.0+) application called Oracle Events. This is a very useful mashup of the Oracle events calendar, Google Maps (surprise!) and a combination of Siderean Seamark and Oracle’s own Secure Enterprise Search. Many of you will recognize the semantic [...]
Written by Jake.
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In a comment on my first post about the slow death of email as a communication medium, Julie asked:
I guess you are talking about email in the context of personal communication rather than business? What are your thoughts on IM for business use, as a replacement for email?
My position is that email is dying off [...]
Written by Jake.
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I’m sure most of you will not agree, or you’ll convince yourself otherwise. News.com has an interesting article with the catching headline, “Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead”. This got me to thinking about dead letters, for some odd reason.
Like it or not, email is dying. Just like face-time gave way to phone calls, [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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 [...]
Written by Jake.
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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). [...]
