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Re: Twitter as Customer Support

davidhaimes — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:00:52 -0000

Jake,
Step 2. Ask twitter is really an extension of step 1.
For the increasing number of remote workers, there is nobody else around so you have to jump right to stage 2. However I use Oratweet to yell out to my co-workers or I use IM to ping the person in the next office, rather than make the effort to stand up and walk around the office asking people and disturbing the peace. The key element here is people I trust, I ask my cube mates, lunch posse, tweeps or oratweeps because I know and trust them, the medium I use to shout out to them is less important.

Re: OpenID: WebVisions 2009

davidhaimes — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:34:50 -0000

There is a similarity I agree. I actually have a pair of glasses the same as Chris is wearing in that photo, but does he have a great big cup of tea?

And on the topic of twins and IDs - A friend was telling me they wrote initials on the feet of their identical twins with a magic marker when they were babies to tell them apart. Now that's what I call an Open ID.

Re: OraTweet in the News

davidhaimes — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:00:14 -0000

Congrats Noel - well deserved too.

I think they have no idea of what life is like at Oracle if they think we are the "unlikeliest company to launch a product of this nature”. There are many innovators like Noel and plenty of willing early adopters at Oracle.

Re: When Are You Most Productive?

davidhaimes — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:54:55 -0000

Afternoon tea is the way to go, makes me feel terribly British.
Now where did I put that Cucumber sandwich?

Re: When Are You Most Productive?

davidhaimes — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:31:16 -0000

I have similar sluggishness in the afternoons - especially if I eat too much at lunch.

I have a peak around 5 or 6 in the afternoon, as the meetings finish and the office goes quiet I can sometimes crank through a huge amount of work in a couple of hours.

Re: Call for Post Ideas

davidhaimes — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:01:32 -0000

Tony,

Sometimes our conversation topics and thoughts are occupied with things we really shouldn't blog about (acquisitions, future product features, etc.). This is one of the problems of working in an R&D department, you can't always blog what you are working on day to day :(

Re: A Bit More on Our IE6 Stance

davidhaimes — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:44:40 -0000

I remember well chatting about Netscape 6, it was a revelation to me and I never looked back.

Coincidently I was talking with my Mum last night as she got confused with the tabs using FF on my wife's Mac.

Have you never seen tabs in a browser before?

I have all those windows and they appear in the bar at the bottom.

What version of Internet Explorer do you use at home?

Hmmm, let me think, it's XD

You mean XP?

Oh yeah that's it.

Never mind.

Re: A Bit More on Our IE6 Stance

davidhaimes — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:34:57 -0000

I run EBS on FF and Safari with no problems, I never switch to IE for any internal Apps apart from Webconferencing.

Re: Requiem for the Computer Lab

davidhaimes — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:35:22 -0000

I still spent many hours in computer labs, we had a lab full of Sun workstations, an Oracle Lab and a networking lab, which back then could not be replaced by a PC.

I built my own PC for my final year (1996) and a lot of my computer science classmates got a PC about that time. I remember one or two laptops, but we all thought they were just being flash.

Re: Keep Your Barcode Scanner off My Merchandise

davidhaimes — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:58:44 -0000

I looked in stores and then went home and ordered online for most of the kit we needed when we had our first baby. However there is one particular store that provides such great advice and service I don't mind paying a couple of bucks more - we needed a new child car seat and they discussed the options made a few recommendations and then came outside and fitted it for us, I will buy more from that store because the advice and service saves me a lot of time and hassle so is worth paying a little more for. Works the same online, if Amazon has a product for a percent or two more than some other retailer I haven't used before, I'll get it from Amazon for the convenience of experience and confidence in delivery dates etc. The trick for all retailers is figuring out the premium their customers will pay for the superior service.

Re: Amazon iPhone App is Sweet

davidhaimes — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:38:39 -0000

You feel guilty about costing them money for testing, but you tweak my interest with thoughts about differing service levels for different users and that makes me want to organize a bunch of users to test that theory out - luckily I am lazy so I won't ever get round to that.

Got to try this App though, I've been an Amazon fan since the 90s too, when they would ship a CD from the US site to me in the UK that wasn't released there yet. I will probably get a lot of my gifts from there anyway.

Re: Two New (to Me) iPhone Apps

davidhaimes — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:19:04 -0000

yeah I ave so far avoided the Loopt mix, I guess I could invite some of my phone book to join.

Re: Two New (to Me) iPhone Apps

davidhaimes — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:23:22 -0000

My name's David and I used to Blog... yes Jake I have lapsed the last month, all the best bloggers laps now and again - a right of passage I think. I'v e been consumed by the awesome products we're developing and working head down full on for a while (you reading boss?)

As for Loopt, you can try to use the 'Mix' feature to find friends...

Re: Firefox Still Pwns the Field

davidhaimes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:43:56 -0000

I heard people trying to get Reader to work on feeds inside the firewall, but not heard of anyone who solved it.

My shared items are here http://tinyurl.com/58fm2p

Now to start finding friends stuff to read.

Re: Does Blogging Matter Anymore?

davidhaimes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:39:30 -0000

As a non pro blogger, I can write my opinions or what I am interested in, not what will get an audience (or a particular market segment) to read the blog. Of course I have to abide my my employers blogging guidelines and all that too...

Re: Does Blogging Matter Anymore?

davidhaimes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:56:43 -0000

Blogging is just another media, it's content that matters. You have junk tv, news and magazines that drive let advertisers drive content, many pro bloggers I feel are headed that way. However there will still be plenty of good content and as barriers to entry are almost non-existent more good content will abound.

Re: Macs in the Enterprise

davidhaimes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:47:53 -0000

I've got a bunch if Macs, including a much maligned cube which is now becoming a collector's item.

I agree about MS office on Mac, I gave up on it too.

On price, my experience of Dell versus Mac is you need 4 replacement hard disks in a Dell fir every one on a Mac. So mac has to be cheaper?

Re: Firefox Still Pwns the Field

davidhaimes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:35:42 -0000

I've just recently converted to google reader, now I just need to check out the shared items...

Re: Another Reason to Network

davidhaimes — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:41:24 -0000

I was at a party at the weekend and when I said I worked for Oracle, people remarked that was a good company to be working for in these uncertain times. That was a flashback to the dot com crash in the space of a few months the talk went from "come join my start up" to are Oracle recruiting that's a good company to be at right now.

@Floyd, I know that book too - it really struck a chord with me. Despite staying at Oracle for 11 years I always ask myself if 1)I am learning new and useful skills and 2)Am I providing some value to my employer. If either of those isn't true you need to change something as soon as possible.

Re: Location, location, location. It’s all about location..

davidhaimes — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0000

sadly I only have 1 person on my iPhone on loopt, good news is he drove 5,000 miles across the US so he was interesting to follow.

More people on loopt please!

Re: Location, location, location. It’s all about location..

davidhaimes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:24:14 -0000

I like Loopt, I have a friend who did a Road Trip from North Carolina to California and I could track his progress on loopt, complete with comments and photos, nice facebook and twitter integration too.

Re: ORA-01403:no data found

davidhaimes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:20:27 -0000

Anyone else own a Commodore Amiga? The Guru Meditation Error was a blast from the past, used to see quite a lot of that.

Re: Why Stickers are My New Business Card

davidhaimes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:35:14 -0000

When I used to go to (and work at) a lot of concerts, teh selection of the T-Shirt to wear was a very delicate thing. Wearing a T Shirt of the band you were watching is a no no, you can make a case for a really old one to show you liked them in the early days before all the other bozos around you had heard of them. Ideally you need to find a slightly obscure band that the coolest followers of the band you're going to see will have heard of and will think are cool. Frankly it's a wonder I ever got out of the house with all this to think about.

Geek Sticker Chic is similar - so at the Next conference when AppsLab is more famous than say ValleyWag (to pick a random example), those stickers won't be so cool anymore and it won't work saying 'yeah but I liked the early AppsLab before they sold out'

Re: Vi Rules!

davidhaimes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:11:01 -0000

I will still occasionally jump into a linux SQL*Plus session and rant about I can get the job done before TOAD/SQL Navigator has even loaded (the reality is, since my hard drive was replaced a few months ago, I never installed them).

Re: 20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless

davidhaimes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:00:52 -0000

Guest Blogger Matt,

I tried a whole load of iPhone Apps and removed them (I don't like clutter), I have a handful left that I do use. A good example to your point; I tried twitterific and twinkle but I find mobile twitter loads fast and works fine (what's not to work, requirement: let me insert 140 characters) so I junked those two.