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Re: How will we "write the book on it" in the future?

empoprises — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:11:15 -0000

Especially since the sentence is arguing for virtual storage, the inadvertent reference to a concrete object is particularly amusing. Unless the writer was speaking in an atomic sense.

Re: http://empoprise-ntn.blogspot.com/2009/04/can-matt-get-his-mom-to-play-ntn.html

empoprises — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:05:47 -0000

So perhaps NTN Buzztime should have "family day." That gets more people into the bars/restaurants...

Re: Twitter ReTweet Feature

empoprises — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:47 -0000

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your statement, but when I view retweets generated by Slandr (currently my favorite retweet client), I only see retweets by persons that I follow. Isn't this consistent with what Twitter is doing?

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

empoprises — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:55:50 -0000

Nick, I'm going to click through to your original blog post in just a moment. Currently when I want to retweet, I switch over to slandr and use its one-button retweet functionality. Once I get the Twitter version, I'll compare the two and see which one I like better.

Re: Why Gaming is the Future of Everything

empoprises — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:15 -0000

I second Jake in thanking you for writing this. The AppsLab is certainly contributing some ideas in this area, and this post itself suggests a wealth of possibilities. (I previously used one of your writings as partial inspiration for a recent post of my own.)

You are correct in noting the negative connotations of play. I forget when this happened, but I was in a meeting once in which we were looking at a problem, and I mentioned that I would "play around" with a solution. The response was NOT positive.

You are also correct in noting that gaming is a prime driver in the advancement of technology. Which brings me to my one concern....Although it isn't discussed much, another very potent technology driver is pornography. And while there are people who have no problem with the Oracle AppsLab exploring gaming, I don't think that the "friends of AppLab" or your Oracle bosses would be receptive to incorporating pornography into your activities - especially if you wanted to use a certain person's yacht for filming purposes...

Re: More Fun with Twitter Lists

empoprises — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:10:12 -0000

Jake, you can then convince Joel to "check in" to places... :)

Re: More Fun with Twitter Lists

empoprises — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:29:10 -0000

One thing about lists - and, for that matter, followers - is that it focuses on people rather than topics. This could lead to issues.

The aforementioned Friends of AppsLab list presumably includes people whose interests are somewhat aligned with the AppsLab. Because of the diverse interests of the AppsLab - and because it is, after all, a lab - you would expect some level of leeway if you viewed the tweets created by the friends of the AppsLab.

For example, the fact that one of the AppsLab friends drank a banana split shake is, in a peculiar way, relevant. Oracle is, after all, an enterprise, and services such as FourSquare (the cited tweet was generated by FourSquare) suggest ways in which enterprises can engage their customers. This topic clearly falls within the realm of AppsLab interests.

But I challenge anyone who follows the "friends of AppsLab" tweets to find the relevance in this tweet ("it must take forever to film a hallmark channel movie. filming must stop for firefighters' day, millard fillmore's birthday..."). I feel sorry for the enterprise student who runs across that particular tweet in the AppsLab feed; the poor soul will end up invoking the former acronym for the Wisconsin Tourism Federation.

And the AppsLab list is a special case, because of its exploratory nature. What if someone were to set up a narrower list, such as "people interested in Oracle Database"? For that list, even a discussion of WebLogic may be considered off-topic.

While I know that social media is supposed to be all about people, in reality social media is also about topics that interest the people. For enterprises and enterprise workers to truly mine the information that is out there, we need better ways to do it. Following a person or a list of persons, while appropriate in a generic social media context, may not be appropriate in an enterprise social media context.

Unfortunately, our search tools aren't smart enough to do this at this time. I cannot think of a way to search Twitter for "AppsLab-y" tweets. When will our search tools become intelligent enough to distinguish "I just ate a mango" from "I just told FourSquare that I drank a mango shake at a local business"?

Re: How Google got left behind (Scripting News)

empoprises — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:24:57 -0000

DeWitt, you are correct (and Dave has amended his post to note this). However, while the feature is there, it is relatively difficult to get to (by "relatively difficult" I mean that it takes a couple of steps or a bit of manual typing to get to the desired result).

As it turns out, it's easier to get date-sorted information in other types of Google searches. For example, to get http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&i... I merely had to go to Google Blog Search, type in "Dave Winer," and click on "Sort By Date."

If Google would offer a "Sort By Date" function on its MAIN search page, then perhaps the competition would be stopped dead in its tracks.

Re: Twitter Lists Make Twitter Dangerous to Use | Mark.

empoprises — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:16:22 -0000

Johnny, you may be wrong, unless I misunderstand you. You stated that lists are "like a shadow follow system with no visibility of who's actually following who." I have the visibility of knowing who has placed me on a list, which is all that matters to me. Are you concerned about other levels of visibility?

Re: Twitter Lists Make Twitter Dangerous to Use | Mark.

empoprises — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:52:46 -0000

At first I was thinking that you were being extremely paranoid, and that you could simply get out of an offensive list by de-friending the offender...until I discovered that I could put people in lists even though I'm not following them. See http://twitter.com/empoprises/notfollowing (and no, that's not Britney Spears' real account).

Probably the reason for this big hole was a perception that even if a list is public, the primary consumer of the list is the person who created it. I created my lists with that thought in mind. But now that the lists are out, the new game is to find the coolest lists, and list competition may get worse than the competition to get into Studio 54 back in the day. Until Studio 54 jumps the shark, and you're stuck on a "I liked Gossip Girl's first season" list or something horrible like that.

Perhaps the best solution would be the ability to remove yourself from any list - a mini-block, as it were.

Re: The Time I was Written Up for Blogging

empoprises — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:27:56 -0000

While I guess the rationale for your being written up makes sense, the whole "quiet period" thing is admittedly baffling to me. I have worked for a small public company which was eventually taken over by a Fortune 500 company, and while I really worried about quiet periods when we were small, they became a non-issue when we became part of the Fortune 500 company (our business was a very very small part of that company, which was primarily known for a completely different product line). I'll grant that HP's printer group is a significant business, but it's still a little mystifying.

That, of course, doesn't negate your basic point that companies should explain their rationale for things, rather than just saying "no." And, at this point, that's all that I'm going to say about THAT.

Re: Metallica Sues Itself For Authorizing ‘Tap Tap’ Game

empoprises — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:58:17 -0000

Filesharing? Support for AP and IE6? That's child's play. If Lars REALLY wanted to be irritating, he'd marry Courtney Love, and then the two of them would move into a house with Harvey Levin...and share the antics on VH1.

Re: Subscription Drive

empoprises — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:45:27 -0000

I did not know of your weekly newsletter before this post. Should be interesting. And thank you for not writing a really interesting post, and interrupting it in the middle with an impassioned plea about how "Chris Brogan wants to continue to bring you quality blogging, but you need to subscribe now! Our bank of e-mail marketers is standing by!"

Re: Northwest Pilots Shot Down by Laptops of Love

empoprises — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:41:29 -0000

And considering how much on-plane wifi can cost, it was an expensive overshoot for the pair.

Re: More on FourSquare from myself and two others

empoprises — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:40:22 -0000

The business tie-in capability offers some real opportunities. I just finished a post regarding business use of Twitter for an online presence, but FourSquare can offer possibilities that Twitter (and Yelp) cannot.

Re: Scientists: Please Have Sex With Others

empoprises — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:04:08 -0000

Oh why, why couldn't these scientists have been from Oregon State University, rather than the University of Oregon? The mascot at the scientists' university is the Ducks. Oregon State has a different mascot that might be more appropriate to the study itself.

Re: How about a $50 check?

empoprises — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:12:38 -0000

Frankly, the best fundraiser that I've seen is scrip. Yes, it takes someone to permanently maintain the scrip program, but at least it's for things that you use everyday, not candy.

Re: Eric Harshbarger, LEGO artist, in #oow09 OTN Lounge

empoprises — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:18:39 -0000

A follow-up to my Monday post about Eric Harshbarger's LEGO sculpture. FYI, Eric has now written about the work at his own website. As it turns out, Oracle commissioned Harshbarger after hearing about his work at a 2006 Java conference. As Harshbarger said, "This was all rather cyclic...."

Re: ‘Save Windows Vista’ Campaign Gathers Steam

empoprises — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:16:38 -0000

I'd only support a Save Vista campaign if they bundled IE6 and Bob with every copy.

Re: OpenWorld Manifest: Days 3 and 4

empoprises — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:59:40 -0000

The only time that I'm ever in the Moscone area is for Oracle OpenWorld, so I'm used to NOT seeing Howard Street as a functioning thoroughfare. Personally, this was a very productive Oracle OpenWorld for me. Good to see you in Moscone West and at the meetup!

Re: The Mayo Clinic apparently blocking Shooting at Bubbles

empoprises — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:23:37 -0000

Boy, just wait until Steven Hodson or Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins post some medical breakthrough, and the folks at the Mayo Clinic can't read it. They'll be really sorry then!

I just read something that mentioned how many sites are blocking social media services such as Facebook and Twitter - I think the figure was somewhere around fifty percent. While some in the social media world dream on about how social media will transform civilization as we know it, the reality is that a bunch of organizations are really afraid of Facebook quizzes and cranky observations.

But will these closed environments result in a lack of innovation as people are blocked from in-depth technical conversations AND LOLcats? The jury's out.

Re: God Wants You to Buy This Doll

empoprises — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:18:36 -0000

For what it's worth, I doubt Keruso will quote God in a press release (unlike the other example you cited). Unless they quote from the book that He wrote.

Re: The Dirty Little Google Voice Secret | Mark.

empoprises — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:44:21 -0000

I have unlimited voice, so I'm not in a position where I need to watch my minutes, but the theory seems interesting. I've shifted to Google Voice because of (a) the call screening capability, which effectively lets me give a phone number out to anyone, and (b) the voice to text capability, which comes handy in meetings (I can read a text message, but may not be able to listen to voice messages). I am manually adding people to my Google Contacts list as needed, which allows me to call anyone from my phone. However, I have a smart phone with a web browser, which lets me access my Google contacts easily.

Re: Woman Arrested for Facebook Poke

empoprises — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:25:57 -0000

Yes. I get all sorts of mentionspam from non-followers that state my Twitter handle and then sell their junk. Retweets with your Twitter handle would do the same.

Re: Woman Arrested for Facebook Poke

empoprises — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:07:29 -0000

Interestingly enough, this would not only apply to a Facebook poke, but even to a retweet, since the retweet would appear in the original person's timeline.