Yeah, I know, more rumor mongering. Alas, rumors make for good discussion. Former Facebook CTO: ‘Google Me’ Is Real, And It’s Gunning For Facebook Google made its money by being excellent at fast-following. Not first in search, but ultimately, better. Not first in online advertising, but better. Not first in online productivity suite, but arguably, [...]
Day 3 I made it through a panel session without talking constantly. I sat at the back of the “Database Development Panel” and kept my gob shut like a good boy. The next two talks, “Oracle Extended SQL Trace Data for Developers” by Cary Millsap and “Co-operating with the Database” by Jonathan Lewis, were more [...]
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 [...]
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 Link to the original site
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. Link to the original site