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Backstory: The Oracle People iPhone App

By justin.kestelyn on February 5, 2009 11:08 AM

For a great example of "informal" innovation and collaboration at work, look no further than the new Oracle People iPhone App, the complete story documented by AppsLab Jake in this post. Oracle peeps Clayton Donley, Rich Manalang, Noel Portugal, Jake,...

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Rich Enterprise Apps: Front and Center at Oracle Develop Beijing

By justin.kestelyn on December 10, 2008 5:46 PM

I was not in attendance, but word got back to me that the Oracle Develop keynote in Beijing this week went well, particularly in regard to the unveiling of rea.oracle.com, a new micro-site that aggregates demos, downloads, and technical information...

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Does the Social Web Have a Future?

By justin.kestelyn on October 15, 2008 9:27 AM

I was privileged to be among the invitees to Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's "Future of the Social Web" round table yesterday. Although I got the invitation relatively late and didn't have a huge amount of time to think about this...

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OpenWorld 2008: A Few of My Favorite Things

By justin.kestelyn on October 2, 2008 12:36 PM

Now that Oracle OpenWorld is history, I wanted to recount a few of may favorite things/experiences. Sadly, I don't have much time to enjoy the actual content of the show anymore, so I will have to live vicariously through others...

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The Best Ideas Thus Far

By justin.kestelyn on September 19, 2008 1:24 PM

So the aforementioned "Participate" homepage went live this morning, and we have received nearly 400 ideas thus far - some good, some bad. Here are some of may favorites: Offer free Oracle Enterprise licenses to ISPs. Currently, MySQL & SQL...

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When is an Unconf Not an Unconf?

By justin.kestelyn on August 13, 2008 10:02 AM

Interesting exchange on Twitter in last couple days. The convo started with @yinchang questioning Oracle's ability and/or required credibility for holding an unconference: To which I replied: Why not? In fact we already did one, at last year's OpenWorld conference....

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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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Why Online Communities Fail

By justin.kestelyn on July 16, 2008 12:20 PM

Just in time for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp in a couple weeks, today WSJ Online subscribers will find a great Business Technology blog post entitled "Why Most Online Communities Fail". The author, Ben Worthen, hits the nail squarely on...

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Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp

By justin.kestelyn on July 8, 2008 12:12 PM

This is something you'll want to know: Registration is now open for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp on July 28 in Redwood Shores. Most of you would agree, I'm sure, that the "soft" issues pertaining to deployment/use of Web 2.0...

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Web 2.0 Expo Unconf

By blogsadmin on April 23, 2008 6:12 PM

I am really happy to see that the booth-based unconference is going well. Geoff Lee, product manager for Oracle XML DB, had it tough as the first presenter, but he "kicked the door in" (as he put it).  Subsequent sessions...

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Web 2.0 Expo - Hall of Swag

By blogsadmin on April 23, 2008 5:45 PM

As I traditionally do, I took a tour around the Web 2.0 Expo exhibitor pavilion to snap some photos:...along the way I "bumped" into Sam Lawrence-on-wheels (CEO of Jive Software, a valued friend of OTN):More postings to come on the...

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Oracle's Micro-Unconference at Web 2.0 Expo

By blogsadmin on April 9, 2008 2:26 PM

Got something to share at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco? Sign up for the micro-unconference in the Oracle booth.Several Oracle product managers already go the jump on this but there are still a few open slots. My favorites thus...

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Press Release 2.0

By justin.kestelyn on March 24, 2008 5:59 PM

It's worth mentioning as a companion to the fact that Oracle has made XQilla XQuery code available under the Apache 2.0 License, that the press release used to announce this news is a revelation.No bluster, no fluff, no clear-as-mud language ...

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Marketing 2.0 Leaders Summit: Wrapup

By justin.kestelyn on February 1, 2008 11:09 AM

Well, I must apologize about my utter failure to communicate during the past two days. I underestimated my workload as a facilitator, in addition to the fact that the wifi was absolutely horrendous - even when I had some downtime,...

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Oracle Marketing 2.0 Leader Summit: First Day

By justin.kestelyn on January 30, 2008 11:32 PM

I apologize not providing frequent updates; being a facilitator is a lot of work and the wifi onsite is not so good. Day 1 has been extremely informative; it got off to a spicy start with a proposal from AppsLab...

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Marketing 2.0 Leaders Summit: Setup

By justin.kestelyn on January 29, 2008 4:06 PM

My first video report - not much to see yet, but you'll see our progress by tomorrow AM!...

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Marketing 2.0 Leaders Summit: The Calm Before the Storm

By justin.kestelyn on January 29, 2008 11:14 AM

The Oracle Marketing 2.0 Leaders Summit agenda is set, the space is booked, the whiteboards are in place, and the participants have arrived.The event design is ingenious. Gordon Rudow, its principal architect, has drafted an extremely interesting step-wise process that...

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Oracle's Marketing 2.0 Leader Summit: The Inside Story

By justin.kestelyn on January 8, 2008 4:23 PM

I want to add some gloss to Jake Kuramoto's entry about the upcoming Oracle Marketing 2.0 Leader Summit, of which I am one of the organizers (along with Marius Ciortea, Paul Salinger, and Tim Bonnemann). This internal summit is an...

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The Beginning of the Long Tail

By justin.kestelyn on November 16, 2007 12:23 PM

So, Oracle OpenWorld 2007 is over. It was a milestone for a several reasons, the main one being: the conference was reinvigorated thanks to innovations like the Unconference, No Slide Zone, Oracle Wiki, Oracle Mix, etc. - the latter two...

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Enterprise 2.0 Meets Oracle Apps

By justin.kestelyn on November 14, 2007 3:24 PM

Ed Abbo, VP Development for "Applications Unlimited" apps (basically everything excepting Fusion Apps), gave a knock-out keynote yesterday that has been resonating in some corners of the blogosphere. You can view it here in its entirety; there are some killer...

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