The Oracle Mix Blog

We're kicking off the month of June with the latest numbers for Oracle Mix. Last week's OTN Virtual Developer Day (search Twitter for mentions of #OTNVDD) certainly brought a nice uptick in activity.

Registered users

43,432 (up 5.5% month-over-month)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 4,841 (11.1%)
Last 60 days: 8,905 (20.5%)
Last 90 days: 12,321 (28.4%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 9,701
Page views: 66,997

Twitter

Followers: 1,150 (up 46.1% month-over-month... Welcome, all!)

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 15
New questions: 68
New comments: 278

Groups

There are currently 1,132 Mix groups (requires login).

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Let us know if you're interested in other metrics. Our own Marius had suggested the other week that we also share data on most active groups or ideas. We don't quite have that information readily available yet but will share those numbers as soon as we've dug them out.

We pushed live the latest release to Mix on Tuesday afternoon.

Here's what's included:

Youtube video embedding for ideas

We've begun to roll out content embedding on Mix. For starters, you can now include a Youtube video in your ideas (see example).

Over the coming weeks, we'll add this feature to questions and group blog posts and will also support additional content types (e.g. Slideshare presentations).

This was one of the more popular requests we've received from our Mix members. We hope you like it and look forward to seeing what you'll do with this new feature.

Mark comments as helpful

We've added a simple flagging mechanism that allows users to mark each others' comments as helpful. For now, you'll simply see a green bar appear next to comments that have been marked helpful.

Over the coming weeks, we'll probably also do something with that information (e.g. expose the most recent helpful comments).

Public groups

Up until now, everything on Mix except the homepage required logging into Mix with your Oracle SSO. We realized that that's a bit restrictive especially when you want to point people to Mix who haven't signed up yet. For example, on the Oracle OpenWorld '09 homepage, we've started to link to our various satellite sites on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and also Mix. When visitors tried to access the link to the Oracle OpenWorld group on Mix they were greeted with the rather unfriendly login mask.

We've added the option for group owners to manage their groups' privacy settings more granularly. The three privacy levels are:

• Private and closed
• Viewable to Oracle Mix members
• Publicly viewable

Again, let us know what you think. We'll share how many groups are making use of this new feature in our weekly metrics update.

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Finally, a few minor fixes were included regarding the RSS feed for group activity as well as a few things on the backend.

The latest numbers are listed below. 60-day and 90-day active user numbers are starting to show small increases week-over-week. Will be interesting to see what kind of effect the session voting for Oracle OpenWorld '09 will have, which we're launching early next week.

Registered users

43,721

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 4,898 (11.2%)
Last 60 days: 9,107 (20.8%)
Last 90 days: 12,518 (28.6%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 9,694
Page views: 67,908

Twitter

Followers: 1,237

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 19
New questions: 75
New comments: 314

Groups

There are currently 1,142 Mix groups (requires login).

Our Vote-a-Session program launched on Tuesday and already we can see a nice increase in overall activity.

Registered users

44,852

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 5,771 (12.9%)
Last 60 days: 9,604 (21.4%)
Last 90 days: 13,073 (29.1%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 13,024
Page views: 110,981

Twitter

Followers: 1,443

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 26
New questions: 72
New comments: 417

Groups

There are currently 1,159 Mix groups (requires login).

Last week, after a couple of tries, we released a new feature that allows users to embed Slideshare presentations in their ideas, questions or group blog posts (log into Mix to see this example).

We also expanded the existing feature of Youtube video embedding to work for questions and group blog posts as well.

Next, we're looking at Screentoaster to see how we can get screencasts embedded.

As always, let us know how you like it.

The next release should go out later this week.

We continue to see a nice increase in overall activity on Mix due to the Vote-a-Session program (you can still vote on your favorite sessions until the end of the week).

Registered users

45,650

Active users (percent of total)

These are the highest numbers we've seen so far since we started tracking them earlier this year:

Last 30 days: 6,322 (13.8%)
Last 60 days: 10,318 (22.6%)
Last 90 days: 14,116 (30.9%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 14,967
Page views: 132,387

Twitter

Followers: 1,536

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 25
New questions: 61
New comments: 365

Groups

There are currently 1,171 Mix groups (requires login).

Earlier last week, we passed the 45,000 user mark on Mix. This time around, it only took ten days to add another 1,000 members -- not bad!

A major milestone will be for Mix to reach 100,000 users. At the current growth rate, it might take another year to get there. On the other hand, we saw a huge spike in registrations last year leading up to and during OpenWorld '08 and hope to experience similar growth this year (we're also planning to do a lot more outreach and member communications now that more of the basic functionality is in place).

So, instead of our small team trying to make some lucky guesses we thought it'd be interesting to do a little experiment in crowd wisdom and hear from Mix members when they think the big 100K will happen.

Just log into Mix and leave a comment with your best guess here: When will Oracle Mix reach 100,000 registered members?

Note this is just for fun for now. If there's enough participation maybe we can make it a contest with some goodies for the winners.