My Yahoo, Oracle, and Moreover.. Follow this sequence: Yahoo! ports their enterprise MyYahoo! onto the Oracle 9i platform. They announce that Oracle will make it available to all of their existing customers. Moreover launches a weblog search tool for portal users. From a news release: The company said it has selected more than 25,000 ‘business critical weblogs’ that…
Language instincts [1].
Language instincts. The dictionary of the Semantic Web may one day be written. But not until we’ve done a lot of yammering, a lot of listening, and a lot of imitating. We need to find ways to help these behaviors flourish. [O’Reilly Network] The ideas put forward in this article got a big boost this week when Kimbro Staken revealed…
Process is an embedded reaction…
Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity (Clay Shirky). Ben Hyde upbraids me for overstating the case about process in my post about Wikis, Grafitti, and Process. Says Ben: What pisses me off about Clay’s note is that he’s playing to people’s most base instincts. First he’s encouraging people… [Many-to-Many]
phpFreaks: An Intro to Graphing…
phpFreaks: An Intro to Graphing in PHP. If you’ve been looking for a good way to create a graph for your application (disk space, usage summaries, etc) for your customers, but don’t want to hassle with learning all of the GD functionality needed, you just might be in luck. One of the finest PHP graphic classes out there, JPGraph is…
Tie Skype to social software…
Tie Skype to social software and you have automagical experience Stuart Henshall and I were talking today via Skype, the P2P voice over IP (VoIP) application, and agreed that a Skype tag that allowed someone reading a blog entry, a Web page of any sort, or any document that supported calls to Web resources, to click a link to open a Voiptoners…
Here is a demonstration [1]…
Here is a demonstration of the callto: tags for Skype phone calls on your weblog. [John Robb’s Weblog]
Skype [1].
Skype. Skype is creating a lot of buzz – it is P2P telephony to allow users to make free phone calls. From their site: – Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to other Skype users – Superior sound quality – better than your regular phone – Works with all firewall, NAT and routers ? nothing to configure! – Friends list shows…
Wikis are Ugly? (Seb Paquet)…
Wikis are Ugly? (Seb Paquet). After seeing what Matt just did, I think this will give hope to the Liz?s out there. Interestingly, my first impressions were ?But this isn?t a wiki! It?s not ugly!?. The RecentChanges link gives it away. (Thanks Todd for the… [Many-to-Many]
Coates on Ugly Wikis (Clay…
Coates on Ugly Wikis (Clay Shirky). Tom Coates wrote a piece I somehow missed back in August, about building a not-ugly wiki for their intranet at the BBC, and some of his research on which bits of which wikis worked best: Anyway, over the last few… [Many-to-Many]
John Abbe’s [1] thoughts on…
John Abbe’s thoughts on WikiWikiWeblogPIMs. [John Robb’s Weblog]