The guys at Pythian, specifically Alex Gorbachev (@alexgorbachev) will be continuing the grand tradition of hosting a blogger meetup at OpenWorld this year. This meetup is a must attend because it’s the best opportunity all year long to meet your favorite Oracle bloggers and tweeters IRL and put a face with a digital identity. Oh, [...]
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Share Regina Ten Bruggencate and several other Duchesses are joining JavaOne this year as Java User Group leaders, unconference presenters and TechCast interviewees. Regina is a 12 year Java developer veteran. She is a very versatile Java consultant and has worked for [...]
We just ran the numbers again, and here they are! Registered Mix users (weekly growth) 69,075 (+0.4%) Active users (percent of total) Last 30 days: 4,428 (6.4%) Last 60 days: 8,073 (11.7%) Last 90 days: 13,751 (19.9%) Traffic (30-day) Visits: 14,760 Page views: 55,603 Twitter Followers: 3,849 List mentions: 235 User-generated content (30-day) New ideas: [...]
The table below compares various URL shorteners based on how much they value service performance and the privacy of their users. Here is the short version of the reading guide: a URL shorterner which gives a high priority to reliability, performance and privacy will use a 301 (“Moved Permanently”) response code, will not use cache [...]
The ArchBeat Podcast returns from its brief summer hiatus with a one-on-one interview with Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint co-author Guido Schmutz. Guido talks about the book, of course, about the ongoing challenges of implementing SOA, and about the evolving attitudes toward SOA. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 You can connect [...]
Resuming where we left off (part 1 , part 2), here are more words that we need in the age of Twitter and blogs. #17 The feeling of elation when writing an IM which you know is approaching 140 characters, your fingers start to tense but you go past it and nothing happens, nothing turns [...]
Say you want to play the tough guy on Twitter, but would rather not be taken to task on your proclamations. Here is a technique you can use to publicly insult/challenge/criticize someone by name without them knowing about it. Let’s assume you want to challenge Internet darling Chuck Norris to a duel, but aren’t too [...]
Here is a great presentation by Aarti Bhatnagar on why and how Oracle Corporation is incorporating Twitter in its Social Media Marketing efforts. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction by Aarti Bhatnagar 0:09 What is Microblogging? 0:32 Introducing Twitter 0:57 How Companies Use Twitter 1:10 Connecting Companies with Their Customers 1:25 Twitter Posts – Keep it [...]
I had an interesting design epiphany last week. Ever since twitter.com made the avatar prominent, everyone building a stream has realized that attaching a face (or personal representation) to an artifact makes it easier to scan, consume and recall information. It makes sense. So, last week, someone on Connect had an issue with some analytics [...]