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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

jkuramot — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:48 -0000

Who said anything about pr0n and yachts? I don't get why you add that concern here, since we didn't mention it. Maybe I missed something. Or did you wander off the reservation a bit there :)

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

jkuramot — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:29:36 -0000

Everyone will be assimilated.

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

jkuramot — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:23 -0000

Does this mean you want off the list b/c no one leaves the list. You understand that right.

:)

I don't think of lists as topical. Anyone who uses Twitter for five minutes knows topics vary wildly from one second to the next. Even if people try to group by topic, they're bound to be disappointed at times.

The point of the list is to showcase the people who loosely belong to the community around this team and/or blog.

I've actually warmed to hashtags for creating topics; they're frictionless and powerful. The #oow09 hashtag had tons of good content, but even then, some off-topic stuff.

I generally disagree that focus on people creates problems, since people do work. Sample any work environment, and you'll see tons of off-topic content. We need ways to filter out content, e.g. hashtags, search, etc.

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.

Itafroma — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:59:26 -0000

I think simple measures like that could fix lists and bring Twitter back to the same risk level it was before they were rolled out: I don't understand why basic countermeasures like that weren't put into place, or how it got past so many intelligent people.

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

tacanderson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:36 -0000

Thanks John. I admit that I still don't think it was that big of a deal but I've learned that large corporations sometimes have to be very black and white about some issues. If it was something that became a real problem I always had the choice to leave.

But yes, if companies provide context and intent behind their explanations I think they'd see a much greater level of adherence both on explicit and vague applications of the rules.

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: Woman Arrested for Facebook Poke

RevMike — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:33:34 -0000

But isn't retweeting something that a restraining order is supposed to promote??!!!!!! (sorry, that has to be the lamest joke I ever came up with! Shame on me! :-P )

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: When Should You Use Your Own Language

Timberland shoes — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:23 -0000

I can't agree more.

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...."