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Re: Web 2.0 Expo Review

Jake — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:32:38 -0000

@Paul: In fairness, you were probably on Twitter first and left it first. The value is in the network, which has only developed lately. Nice touch, lead us all to it, make us build it up into something useful, then jump back on board.

@Marius: Ditto.

@Ameed: I saw you out there in the Twitterverse. We have no plans to attend E 2.0 in Boston, but that may change. Why should we attend? Sell me on it :)
Funny you should mention RWW, I ran into Marshall (who lives in Portland) at the Expo, and he was jonesing for news. I guess he found some.

Re: Web 2.0 Expo Review

Jake — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:45:11 -0000

@Jeremiah: Yeah, that's good for us in the work sense. I guess on the geek side, it's on to the next big thing.

Re: Running Water or Cell Service?

Jake — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:46:46 -0000

@fuadar: Looking forward to your pics and thoughts.

Re: Web 2.0 Expo Review

Jake — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:41 -0000

@Floyd: Sweet, can I call you Rocketman?

Re: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

Jake — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:40:32 -0000

@Marius: We can point to that FAQ, just let me know where to seed the link.

@OE: You're just mad we don't push to FriendFeed :) although we could using RSS. Luckily this isn't the only way to suggest a session. Besides, I think OOW could use more sessions on 2.0 and social stuff. Don't you?

Re: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

Jake — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:24:01 -0000

@OE: No need to worry, there will be plenty of database sessions :) The promotion done for OOW is diversifying Mix quite a bit, so I think we should get a nice variety of suggestions. Participation is a hurdle though. I guess we'll see over the next few weeks.

@David: Spot on, this year's OOW will have that flavor from attendees, e.g. where can we get advice, what's Oracle doing, etc.

Re: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

Jake — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:23:20 -0000

@OE: Never fear, Lewis C has already added some pure database topics for your voting pleasure. Whew.

Re: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

Jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:49:19 -0000

@Dan: I can't speak to the development tools and their initiatives. Carl Backstrom (http://carlback.blogspot.com/) or Tyler Muth (http://tylermuth.wordpress.... might know about APEX.

I suppose you could look at cloud computing as Intertubes client/server. The processing happens all on the cloud side and the install is only a browser.

Cloud computing does allow you as a consumer to pay for exactly what you use, which makes it more affordable.

Re: My First BarCamp

Jake — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:05:18 -0000

@bex: Did you (or Billy) ask Justin to sponsor? I asked Marius, expecting a no, but he said yes and here we are. Your BarCamp may be bigger than ours, but we had bubble tea.

Re: My First BarCamp

Jake — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:45:26 -0000

@Selena: Ditto, see you May 28 at Vidoop for next Lunch 2.0?

Re: My First BarCamp

Jake — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:10:17 -0000

@bex: Yeah, we had kegs too. I also emailed Justin on your behalf.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:31:46 -0000

@Dan: Woah, letters sounds too new-fangled. I was thinking carrier pigeons or smoke signals.

Product categories means another taxonomy. We have enough problems with the one we have. Do not want another to maintain. I want easier, and I know you can do better.

You found us out; we're using our enormous budget to pay for votes. You better hurry or all my voting budget will be spent, nothing left for your sessions.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:47:17 -0000

Turns out Raimonds is doing some self-promotions for his Rails session too :)

http://twitter.com/rsim/sta...

http://blog.rayapps.com/200...

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:57:46 -0000

@Chris: Agreed, I suspect the positive response will force the stakeholders into quick action to clarify what's involved, more details, etc. Not by accident, I have definite content in mind for the suggestions I've proposed, but then again, I had a head start :)

We (AppsLab) have been a promotion vehicle only so far, and I'm taking in all the thoughts for the inevitable meeting that we'll need to have soon.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:20:18 -0000

@shishir: You can submit ideas until June 13 and vote until June 24. Are you still writing a Google App Engine post for me? I got my invite a few days ago and was planning to mess around in there.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:35:03 -0000

@shishir: Yeah, you're not alone in suggesting a tag cloud, but it has
several drawbacks IMHO. 1) It advances popular tags, making it tough to
browse, 2) In this case, we would have to have a tag cloud only for OOW
sessions. I think a tag cloud still underserves the middle. This may be the
best way though, stay tuned.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:38:44 -0000

@Lennard: We've gone around and around on this from the beginning. We keep who voted for what private to encourage new people who aren't used to Digg, etc. to participate. Also, I want product development to focus on ideas, not on people.
We may eventually turn this on, but for now, it's private and will stay that way.

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:29:18 -0000

@Dan: We may have to do something, depending on internal decisions that are outside my influence. Either way, I'm not terribly concerned about votes, more so about how to get all the ideas equal time.

Ideas there?

Re: Suggest a Session is a Hit

Jake — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:57:03 -0000

@Danny Corner Case: That's brilliant! I love it.

Re: Pour Some Gas on the Fire (Eagle)

Jake — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:50:25 -0000

will dm one to each of you . . . 18 to go

Re: Pour Some Gas on the Fire (Eagle)

Jake — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:12:54 -0000

Right you are, I did miss Paul's tweet. 17 to go now.

Worth noting that Firebot is down now, which is a bummer. I've tweeted at the dude who works on it, in his spare time I assume :)

Re: Pour Some Gas on the Fire (Eagle)

Jake — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:48:28 -0000

@Eddie: Will send one of each. May need you (and Rich) to help propagate Brightkite invites, as I only have 2 moar :( Or just ask Twitter, like I did.

Re: Pour Some Gas on the Fire (Eagle)

Jake — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:31:48 -0000

@talboito: On its way, only 15 remain now.

Re: Pour Some Gas on the Fire (Eagle)

Jake — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:58:39 -0000

@shishir: Sent you one via dm.
@S Venkataramanan/Paul/Patrick: Sending via email.

Re: Lenti, Steve - Big complaint @brightkite

Jake — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:17:50 -0000

1) Tough to tell here. I use Firebot, and it's borked lately too, so I'm wondering if something changed. Dopplr hasn't been working either.
2) The settings on the FE side control what BK and any app can do. FE brokers your location based on those settings.