I heard someone bemoaning the lack of Swag at Hotsos – just an event program, couple of magazines and a small clockwork toy sponsored by Oracle. I don’t think I ever come to the Symposium expecting Swag – it’s just not that kind of event. But you do tend to get good speaker gifts, including [...]
@audible_com please can you do more to convince your audio book publishers that you are an internet company, and by definition operating in a global marketplace.
Does Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) know that FREE is not FREE (contrary to his intent I believe), but it is completely UNAVAILABLE in the audio form for large parts of [...]
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I’ve been thinking about comments lately, mostly because several interesting points have converged to draw my attention.
First, Cult of Mac pointed out that John Gruber’s Daring Fireball will now have comments, via another site, i.e. DaringFireballWithComments.net.
Next, Engadget turned off their comments because the had “really gotten out [...]
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account.
Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can permanently [...]
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account.
Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can permanently [...]
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Channeling Seinfeld a bit, what’s up with stop lights lately?
I don’t know much about stop lights, aside from using them, and I wouldn’t immediately think of them as a hotbed for innovation.
Well, it’s a good thing that’s not my business because I’ve seen two separate innovations related to stop lights in the [...]
Rich provided a sweet tip this evening that I wanted to share.
PuSH Bot, the weekend project of Mihai Parparita, combines the PubSubHubbub protocol with XMPP to create an easy way to subscribe to any feed served by PuSH via IM, meaning you’ll receive updates in your favorite IM client.
Sweet!
Oh, and there are a lot of [...]
This was a great article ….“ We learn so much when we use our own software to run our business. And when we share best practices and the lessons we’ve learned, our customers benefit with increased returns on their Oracle investments.”
I love our customers. Thanks for your business. Your comments are noteworthy. I hope they [...]
I was just having a chuckle at Bex Huff’s post about “Why Do So Many Developers Love Baffingly Complex Code?”. I’m a DBA by trade so find it funny when developers get into lively debate trying to justify themselves.
I’ve seen my fair share of complex code, some needs to be, and some really doesn’t need [...]
After a long trip in an inadequate case in a freezing, scary and completely dark luggage hold, we’re so happy to finally arrive in San Francisco! Not everyone could come, though
In celebration, we want to announce – the OOW 2009 Cuddly Toy Meet-up.
Any Cuddly Toys who are attending Oracle Openworld this week are [...]