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The New Oracle Bloggers

By justin.kestelyn on July 18, 2008 9:57 AM

One of the great benefits of the Oracle-BEA integration has been a tremendous influx of new blogging (and Twittering) talent. (This process has only just begun in fact.) Here are just a few of the new stars in the Blogs.Oracle.com...

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Done.

By justin.kestelyn on July 1, 2008 6:16 AM

Many, many thanks to the Oracle Asia R&D Center Team that worked closely with us to get the blogs.oracle.com migration successfully completed. If you're wondering, BOC now runs on Six Apart's Movable Type Enterprise (v. 1.5) on top of Oracle...

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Coffee Break

By justin.kestelyn on June 20, 2008 2:05 PM

I'll be taking a break from blogging for the next several days, while we complete our loooong awaited migration to MTE1.52, running on top of Oracle Content DB. (An upgrade to MTE4 is planned for the very near future.)So, please...

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OTN TechBlog, The Interview

By justin.kestelyn on May 29, 2008 1:55 PM

I was pleased to speak with PR blogger John Cass recently about this blog; the results can be seen here. John thinks I'm being too hard on myself!...

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A Fond Farewell to Orablogs

By justin.kestelyn on January 23, 2008 4:11 PM

Sorry to say it but according to its guardian, Brian Duff, the Orablogs aggregator is on its way to the scrap heap.Orablogs was the first Oracle-centric blog aggregator of which I am aware, and in fact initially served as a...

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Oracle Blog Aggregator Mania

By justin.kestelyn on January 17, 2008 11:04 AM

Incredible; when I first started blogging two or three years ago, there were only one or two Oracle-related blog aggregators to be found. Today, there are 10 of which I am aware. (If one is missing from this wiki page,...

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Blogtaggate

By justin.kestelyn on January 11, 2008 5:20 PM

Fascinating that a little game of blog-tag would evolve into the latest Oracle Blogosphere teapot tempest (nicely summarized here by Eddie Awad & commenters). Interestingly, the game has since spilled over into the wider Blogoverse.Whether a blog-tag = spam is...

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Blog Tagged Again

By justin.kestelyn on January 8, 2008 10:57 AM

Thanks, AppsLab Jake, for the game of blog-tag! (This is now my second game of blog-tag; my first was courtesy of Jeff Pulver but as Jake points out, this is the first version intended for the Oracle blogosphere. Great idea.)So,...

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Oracle Blogs Facebook App

By justin.kestelyn on December 14, 2007 10:43 AM

Once again, Eddie Awad comes through with a great Facebook app for the community: the Oracle Blogs app.Even easier to track the Oracle blogosphere!...

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The Fruits of Transparency

By justin.kestelyn on November 12, 2007 8:15 PM

Now it can be said: Oracle Co-Prez Charles Phillips met with a select group of "media" bloggers today, including Dan Farber, Josh Greenbaum, Vinne Mirchandani, Jeff Nolan, and other "Enterprise Irregulars." Here's the proof: Honestly, how many of you ever...

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Lunch 2.0 at Oracle: Postmortem

By justin.kestelyn on October 22, 2007 5:06 PM

I had a great time at the Lunch 2.0 at Oracle today (even though I didn't get to eat and ran around too much), and I want to thank everyone for attending. I estimate at least 200 attendees today....

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Oracle Relates to Bloggers

By justin.kestelyn on October 12, 2007 2:12 PM

Here's another nice development on the community front: For the first time, Oracle is issuing blogger credentials for Oracle OpenWorld. A group of "A-listers" (as Scoble calls them) will soon receive (if they haven't already) invitations to accept full conference...

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What the Heck is "Enterprise 2.0", Anyway?

By blogsadmin on September 28, 2007 6:11 PM

Fascinating blogger-sation occurring between Billy Cripe and Jake Kuramoto regarding the business/long-term value of social applications as well as the mechanism of adoption. Top down? Bottom up? Data driven? People powered? Pick up the thread here:"Web 2.0 vs Enterprise 2.0...

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Oracle Diggs New Ideas

By justin.kestelyn on June 29, 2007 3:15 PM

The "three amigos" of Oracle AppsLab - Paul Pedrazzi, Jake Kuramoto,  Rich Manalang - have done  Oracle a great service with their internally deployed   "Oracle Idea Factory". (AppsLab is already required reading BTW, and not just for Oracle wonks....

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Oracle Blogs Homepage Re-org

By justin.kestelyn on June 26, 2007 6:12 PM

We've re-organized the blogs.oracle.com homepage by topic area. You like?It was just becoming too difficult to wade through all the item-by-item descriptions (most of which were repetitive). You'll also note an expanded aggregator.IMO it's an improvement, but if I get...

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Satisfaction

By blogsadmin on June 6, 2007 10:36 AM

Scoble comments that Oracle Blogs are on his regular reading list (although we have yet to become one of his "favorites"; working on that).My recent post about Oracle being a neglected stepchild in the mainstream blogging community caused something of...

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Blog Tagged

By justin.kestelyn on May 21, 2007 10:36 AM

I was blog-tagged by Jeff Pulver over the weekend (his invention I believe); so I guess I'm it.I am a law-school drop-out.Until the age of 14, my childhood hero was Napoleon Bonaparte. Thereafter, it was Joe Strummer.My father was a...

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Oracle Bloggers, Take Down This Wall

By justin.kestelyn on May 1, 2007 10:37 AM

The public discussion re: Oracle blogging continues, with insightful posts today from Brian Duff (employee) and Doug Burns (nonemployee).I'm pleased with myself that I brought this up because I've been getting a lot of good feedback and advice from the...

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This is How It's Supposed to Work

By justin.kestelyn on April 27, 2007 11:04 AM

Look, ma, no hands! I think I attracted some attention:Scoble: Oracle can�t get blogging respectAgreed, the lack of a formal blogger relations program is not helpful. But we're working on it. Hopefully Robert will get that invitation soon....

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I Don't Get It

By justin.kestelyn on April 26, 2007 2:11 PM

A fairly good sized-crew of my colleagues attended the Web 2.0 Conference in SF last week and returned to the office with a treasure trove of information. (Unfortunately, I was locked in the Mandalay Bay Conf Center in Vegas for...

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