Profit Online’s Top 10 of ‘09

Most Popular Stories of the Year

The Oracle OpenWorld news desk is relatively calm right now, which gives us a chance to catch up on one of our other favorite Web publications: Profit Online. But since we still have some holiday shopping to do, we’re counting on the wisdom of the crowd to narrow our list [...]

LinkedIn Group Passes 1000 Member Mark

Turned my back on the LinkedIn group for the Thanksgiving weekend here in the US and when I turned around again, I discovered that we’d hit the 1000 member mark!   Good to know someone out there cares about this stuff.
To add yourself to our burgeoning crowd, come to: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=140609
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Feeds: Dead to You or Still Kicking?

There’s been a fair amount of debate among the early adopter crowd lately about the place of syndicated content in relation to Twitter.
The debate has been renewed in light of the general release of Twitter lists, which allow people to create and follow bunches of Twitter users en masse.
Since many people use Twitter to share [...]

Feeds: Dead to You or Still Kicking?

There’s been a fair amount of debate among the early adopter crowd lately about the place of syndicated content in relation to Twitter.
The debate has been renewed in light of the general release of Twitter lists, which allow people to create and follow bunches of Twitter users en masse.
Since many people use Twitter to share [...]

I Don’t Care What You Say, Foursquare Rules

I’ve been playing foursquare regularly for about a month now, and even though I was teased by several people (you know who you are) at OpenWorld last week, I’ll continue to play.
/me thumbs nose
If you’re not familiar, foursquare debuted at SXSW this Spring, and it’s currently the latest shiny object of the early adopter crowd. If [...]

Collaborate09 thoughts…

I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts from this years IOUG Collaborate event.  Ian Abramson, the president of the IOUG, has a nice series of write ups on the event itself – starting with day 1 through day 3 and then a wrap-up post.  He describes it as a three day event – but [...]

Lessons in Re-branding: My Aquarium and SpeedDate’s Agressive Acquisition Strategy

The My Aquarium Facebook application will soon become .. a dating app??? WTF!
At first I thought it must be a joke, or someone hacked the developer’s facebook account.
But amazingly, it seems for real. SpeedDate have apparently been acquiring quite a number of Facebook applications, and My Aquarium is just one of the latest.
I don’t know [...]

OpenWorld08: Day 0

Presentation went well this morning.  Had a good crowd for early Sunday morning (106 according to the website).Here is a link to the slides if you are interested.  If you attended and have further questions feel free to conctact me @ jason.jones-at-zirous.comSitting in the ACE Director briefing, more to come.
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ODTUG 2008 (week in review)

Well alot of people have been giving day by day reports about this years ODTUG (where do they get the time). So I figured I’d just post a weekly roundup on the proceedings.
ODTUG
The ODTUG 2008 event itself was alot of fun and very well organized. From Tom Kyte’s opening keynote , which was a [...]

Oracle on .NET and Windows BOF Session

Hello from Tech·Ed! I have been very busy giving demos of the new PL/SQL debugger that we have integrated into Visual Studio 2005. That feature and of course .NET stored procedures has been very popular with the crowds. And Alex Keh has been showing off all of the new ADO.NET 2.0 features in ODP.NET… If [...]