Word leaked yesterday that the EU was set to approve the Oracle-Sun acquisition, and today, it’s official. Justin announced that Larry Ellison will hold a live webcast on January 27 to unveil the corporate strategy for the combined companies. Here’s the official description: Transforming the Way You Buy, Run, and Manage Your Business Systems Find [...]
Photo by missbossy from Flickr used under Creative Commons Earlier in the week, I posted about Next Jump and their use of data and algorithms to target offers at consumers who are most likely to buy. Their results are impressive, 60% click-through on offers with a phenomenal 11% rate converting browsers to buyers. Apparently, 5% [...]
Photo by .schill from Flickr used under Creative Commons Wow, geo is a hot topic lately, with coverage, announcements and features dropping every day. Here’s a summary of what I’ve seen lately that caught my interest: Gowalla appears to be preparing an API. MyTown has 500,000 users, even though no one talks about it. Yelp [...]
As a lover of data visualization, I couldn’t resist sharing this one from Stephen Von Worley depicting the evolution of beloved Crayola crayons from their humble roots as an eight-pack of fun in 1903 to today’s 120-pack. I’m a total data geek, which is why I love data visualizations. I couldn’t help looking for patterns [...]
Ever heard of a company called Next Jump? Me neither until I read this piece in the New York Times (h/t TechCrunch) last week. Next Jump had stayed stealth for 15 years, raising $45 million in venture money and hiring 225 people, all the while signing 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. Not too [...]
In case you’re following along at home, Vince has posted the second installment in his “What is WebCenter” series. You can find the first part here. So far, he’s kept it pretty high level, which makes sense. I expect that in future parts he’ll dive into the nitty gritty details a bit more, e.g. he [...]
If you follow me on Twitter (@jkuramot), you might already know that my iPhone, the OG version, is failing. I noticed last week it wasn’t charging or syncing over USB. I performed all the usual tests to trap the problem–swapped cables, swapped ports on the Mac and on my USB hubs, swapped ports on my [...]
A little while back, Chet (@oraclenerd) asked the Oracle WebCenter account (@oraclewebcenter) over Twitter, “What is WebCenter?” Makes sense since Chet, and many others out there, are general Oracle practitioners, meaning they may specialize in a specific product, but are always curious and eager to expand their knowledge to other Oracle products, which is very [...]
Thanks to Reader, today I found this piece (h/t Slashdot and Lifehacker) by a freelance writer asking whether her aol.com email address was hopelessly square and dated. I noticed this post initially because I can’t think of a single contact of mine with an aol.com address. I used to help a friend with AOL about five [...]
Cue the jokes. So, Chet (@oraclenerd) floated this notion, originally proposed in the NYT, and it’s completely true. Check the evidence: $25 million from Google and Microsoft to pump the firehose of tweets into search results, a full ecosystem built around the Twitter API, even an apps marketplace, Oneforty, built around the ecosystem. Incidentally, Oneforty, the [...]