• DBA -- Oracle Database Administration. For all Oracle DBA's, experienced or not, gigabyte or petabyte ;-) It's an open group, you don't need to be invited to join. (1714 members)
• Oracle Certification -- This group is for all holding Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Certified Expert (OCE), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), and Oracle Certified Master (OCM) credentials, as well as those pursuing their certification. A forum to share exam preparation tips, study materials, practice... (549 members)
• E-Business Suite -- Group dedicated to discussing issues, sharing ideas and communicating about the Oracle E-Business Suite (1,739 members)
• PeopleTools -- PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Covering the PeopleSoft technology stack, developer tools, PeopleCode, BI tools and integration technology. A group for developers and infrastructure analysts. (410 members)
• PeopleSoft -- Everything about PeopleSoft related Tools, PSadmin etc. (502 members)

Our algorithm looks at growth rate and group activity. Just get those two going for the positive and your group will show up here in no time.

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups

1. Word cloud of list names to which @oracle has been added

Word cloud created with the ever-amazing Wordle.net

The key terms are all pretty obvious ones, but in the future who knows what names people will give us.

2. Top 10 most-followed lists to which @oracle has been added

I expect this list to change quite a bit over the coming weeks and month as more lists are created by more people. At first sight, there seems to be value in being on popular lists.

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We also talked about useful applications for Oracle-generated lists (like the one we created last week). Let us know if you have any ideas for lists you'd like to see us curate. Thanks!

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

52,550 (+0.6%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 5,096 (9.7%)
Last 60 days: 8,714 (16.6%)
Last 90 days: 11,864 (22.6%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 11,602
Page views: 58,891

Twitter

Followers: 2,580
List mentions: 41

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 17
New questions: 34
New comments: 175

Groups

There are currently 1,293 Mix groups (requires login).

Here's what we woke up to this morning. Following yesterday's tweet, ten lists have already been created that contain @oraclemix (thanks, everyone!):

A quick look over to the @oracle account showed an even higher uptake at 41 lists.

There are a number of things to keep an eye on: For example, what are people calling the lists they put you on? How many people are following those lists? We're definitely adding "listed how many times" to the things we track.

It will be interesting to watch this unfold as the roll-out of this feature continues and more people play with lists. As always, let us know if you find more use cases that make the most of lists.

Thinking of the obvious, I quickly created the "Oracle" list of currently 23 official Oracle Twitter accounts (btw, that's quite a jump from where we were three months ago).

From A to O, here they are:

• @AgilePLM
• @magazineoracle
• @oracle
• @Oracle_EM
• @OracleArgentina
• @OracleBlogs
• @oraclecert
• @oraclecrm
• @oracledatabase
• @OracleEvents
• @OracleFS
• @oraclehcm
• @OracleHealthSci
• @oracleidm
• @oraclemiddle
• @oraclemix
• @oracleopenworld
• @oraclepartners
• @oracleprofit
• @OracleRetail
• @oracletechnet
• @oracleutilities
• @oraclewebcenter

Here's the list. Let us know what other useful things you could see us doing with lists. Thanks!

According to Wikipedia:

Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.voiiterytr Initially released only to developers, a "preview release" of Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite up to twenty additional users.

Since we're always up for trying out new things, we've joined this wave created by the AppsLab. If you're lucky and already have your Wave account, feel free to join us as we try to figure out how this new tool fits in with everything else.

We've also started a new group of Google Wave Users which you're invited to join as well (at 9 members since we launched it few days ago, it already made it on today's hot groups list).

• R12COE -- Center of Expertise for Oracle Consulting (57 members)
• External OCSCOE -- Center of Expertise for Oracle Consulting : This group is customer facing and is used for interacting with customers (51 members)
• Development Tools -- Are you a developer, or user of development tools such as PL/SQL, ApplicationExpress (ApEx), java or other languages and tools (even third-party, like PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, Ruby, Rails, TOAD, ER/Studio, ERwin, MySQL, etc)? If so, this is your place to hang out. Join other developers to exchange... (1,241 members)
• Google Wave Users -- This group aims to connect users of Google Wave (http://wave.google.com). The idea is to help each other get invites, share resources and discuss any interesting use cases you discover. (9 members)
• Enterprise Manager -- This is a group for Oracle Enterprise Manager product series. Grid Control (EMGC), Plug-ins and extensibility, Database Control, Application Server Control, etc. (245 members)

Want to see your group on this weekly list? Just invite a few more people and get people talking. Our algorithm will pick up your activity and move you up on the hot list.

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

52,251 (+0.7%)

Active users (percent of total)

We're back up to 10% 30-day active users...

Last 30 days: 5,201 (10.0%)
Last 60 days: 8,706 (16.7%)
Last 90 days: 11,982 (22.9%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 11,844
Page views: 64,213

Twitter

Followers: 2,546

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 23
New questions: 38
New comments: 235

Groups

There are currently 1,285 Mix groups (requires login).

Over the coming 100 days, we'd like to give Mix a major push. This includes (but probably won't be limited to) the following:

• Rolling out several ready-to-go features which we didn't get a chance to deploy in time for OpenWorld
• Implementing a few important infrastructure changes (we'll talk about those in more detail later)
• Cleaning up our backlog of bugfixes and minor improvements
• Revamping our feedback management process
• Updating the Mix roadmap as we head into 2010 (and get started on implementing the first few iterations)

Especially with regard to this last piece, we'd like ask for your help. Following our efforts earlier this year to solicit input from our key group admins, we want you to tell us where you want us to take Mix in the next year.

When Mix launched in 2007, it didn't come fully baked. It was a prototype of something potentially much bigger, but the feature set we've managed to implement since then is still lacking behind what most people expect from a social network today (Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing being prominent sites Mix is commonly being compared to).

So with that, why don't you tell us where you want Mix to be headed? What's your biggest gripe? Where do you see the most promising usecases? We'll figure out a way to capture and organize this feedback in a more structure way, but for now please go ahead an leave us a comment here. If you've already made a feature request or posted an idea for improvement on Mix, please make sure you link to it so people can follow up.

Thank you, and enjoy your weekend!

• Enterprise Manager Desktop Widgets -- "Widgets" are downloadable Rich Internet Applications that exposes EM Grid Control functionality on the desktop. This group is for you to provide feedback and vote on a series of widgets that we are building or should build. (18 members)
• E-Business Suite -- Group dedicated to discussing issues, sharing ideas and communicating about the Oracle E-Business Suite (1,717 members)
• PeopleTools -- PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Covering the PeopleSoft technology stack, developer tools, PeopleCode, BI tools and integration technology. A group for developers and infrastructure analysts. (392 members)
• PeopleSoft -- Everything about PeopleSoft related Tools, PSadmin etc. (488 members)
• DBA -- Oracle Database Administration. For all Oracle DBA's, experienced or not, gigabyte or petabyte ;-) It's an open group, you don't need to be invited to join. (1,678 members)

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups

The basic premise was the idea that we could add value by combining the publicly available schedule information with the social graph on Oracle Mix. By allowing Mix members to share which of the many hundreds of sessions they find interesting or plan to attend they might help their friends and colleagues make better scheduling decisions (and hence have a better experience at OpenWorld).

Due to the challenges we encountered during the integration with Oracle Mix and the time it took to push this live, not all of the cool features we had available (e.g. mobile interface and others) were activated, and some of our Mix members had trouble accessing the application at all.

We've already talked to some of you who got a chance to try out this new feature in person but wanted to take the opportunity to ask all of our alpha testers to leave a comment here on our blog to tell us what you thought.

• How did it work?
• Did you find it useful?
• Would you like to see something like this next year?
• What other ideas to you have that could improve the scheduling experience?

Thanks to everyone who spent the time giving this feature a shot despite the fact we were only to release it last minute. We appreciate your effort very much and would like to reward you with an even better release at one of our upoming events (e.g. OpenWorld 2010).

First, though, here's our latest metrics update:

Registered Mix users (weekly growth)

51,882 (+0.3%)

Active users (percent of total)

Last 30 days: 5,076 (9.8%)
Last 60 days: 8,450 (16.3%)
Last 90 days: 12,060 (23.2%)

Traffic (30-day)

Visits: 11,920
Page views: 63,243

Twitter

Followers: 2,506

User-generated content (30-day)

New ideas: 29
New questions: 42
New comments: 268

Groups

There are currently 1,273 Mix groups (requires login).

The social session builder combines schedule information from events (in this case, Oracle OpenWorld 2009) with the social network on Mix. It allows you to easily build your own personal schedule but also to see who in your network is attending the same sessions.

We weren't able to put this feature on our roadmap for Mix this year. Instead, we worked with a third party to mock up the experience so that we can at least gather valuable feedback for next year. If it turns out that this is functionality is something that Mix members want to see we will try to secure the resources and funding to make it happen.

Please note that while the third-party application is very solid, we're still working out some kinks on the SSO integration piece. One requirement (for us as well as the security review team) was for this to rely on Oracle SSO. That means Mix users can use the third-party application without additional signup or login steps. We finally got it figured out; however, due to the history of how Mix was set up and how we handle our own Mix profiles, there's a slight chance that some users won't have access to the social schedule builder application. If you're one of the unfortunate ones, please contact us and we'll try to find a work-around.

Please log into Mix and you'll find a new header navigation item "OpenWorld Schedule (alpha)" which will take you directly to the schedule builder app.

Here's what we'd like you to do:

• Give it a try!
• Let us know any problems
• Let us know if you find the new feature useful
• Tell your friends

It's important to note that as a prototype, this application is not integrated with our official schedule builder application yet. While we pull in all the publicly available schedule information from there, it won't reflect any updates you make on our app. So for any sessions or events that require "first come, first serve" registration, please make sure to also go to the official schedule builder (though we assume that at this point most people will already have done so).

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Chris and Mike at The Social Collective and to the people on our SSO team who steered us through this integration. It took quite a bit of effort to get this piece up and running, and we hope you all like it.

Mike has posted his thoughts here: Procrastinators Rejoice: OpenWorld's Social Schedule Builder is Live!

And with that: enjoy, and have a fun Oracle OpenWorld 2009!

You can find the full schedule here: OpenWorld Live

Monday through Wednesday from 12 noon to 12.30pm, we'll be doing a 30-minute live show from the OTN lounge. Our goal is to get you impressions from the ground and give you unfiltered insights from the people who know: bloggers, analysts, Oracle ACEs etc.

We've set up a wiki page where you can help us create the programming:

• Let us know what you'd like to see (people, topics, formats, swag etc.), and we'll try to make it happen.
• Create your own video programming on Youtube and we'll include it in our stream.

Of course, you can also give feedback in the comments below or ping us via Twitter at @oraclemix.

And finally, here's where you can watch OpenWorld Live:

• OpenWorld home page on Oracle.com
• Facebook
• Livestream

Thanks, hope you can join us!

• Apple Users -- Just a place for Oracle Mix users who update their mix-profile on a mac... (44 members)
• BIWA - Business Intelligence, Warehousing, and Analytics -- This group supports discussion of ideas related to Oracle Business Intelligence, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA), associated with the IOUG BIWA SIG (www.oraclebiwa.org). (105 members)
• Beehive -- People working with or interested in Oracle's new Beehive Collaboration solution. (103 members)
• Bloggers -- A group for people who maintain, or contribute to, blogs with material relevant to things Oracle. (182 members)
• Content Management -- A group to discuss Oracle Content Management (258 members)

To view the complete list, go here: Oracle Mix hot groups