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Daily Archives Thursday, September 2008

Oracle OpenWorld Bound

Where’s Waldo?
As infrequently as I’ve posted over the last few months I’m sort of surprised I even have any readers remaining!
I will be at OpenWorld and I’d love to meet up with as many of you as I can. I’ll be working the Oracle Demo Ground in Moscone North on late Wednesday afternoon and [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Someone sends an email to a distribution list. Someone replies to all, and people start asking for removal, also replying to all. Snarky comments ensue. Inbox is stuffed with replies to all.
You know the drill.
So, yesterday morning, someone sent an innocuous request to a sales distribution list, asking a [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Collok.com Manages Your OpenWorld Schedule

A few weeks ago, I huddled with Matt and Eddie to chat about how we could do some whizzy-social-2.0 stuff for OpenWorld this year.
The outcome was a lot of “this would be cool” and “just don’t have the time”. Well, Matt made some time anyway, and he’s soft-released Collok.com to help you manage your OpenWorld [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Open World 08 Plans, no UKOUG for me this year

A few years ago, I started getting too many events on my schedule for conferences, so I began using a spreadsheet to track all the sessions I wanted to attend, presentations I was scheduled to give, meetings with customers, times I had to be on booth duty, and, of course, social events I had to [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - APEX Meetup

Some of you are maybe already on the way to San Francisco as Oracle Open World is just around the corner! San Francisco will look completely red and crowded with people affiliated with Oracle once more. I’ll be one of them.This time it promises to be a…

Posted 18 September 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

London omnibus bell hell

Last night, I took a number 521, red, bendy bus from St. Paul’s to Waterloo station.As the journey progressed, someone insistently and repeatedly pressed the bell to indicate they wished to disembark at the next stop. Nothing too unusual in that.At th…

Posted 18 September 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °