http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2008/09/oracle_listens_1.html Jason Kestelyn’s post is a great marker for how our nations biggest companies will use the web from here forward. In the new world, as opposed to simply providing a robust informational portal with some level of interaction, the community is now the focus. Information is decoupling from the databases (irony) and living through…
Last week I was fortunate to have spent time with one of the nations leading federal government scientists. Our conversation was about the potential impact of enabling the scientific community to collaborate via social media. The goal would be to allow them to leverage each others research, avoid duplication, improve experimentation, etc. Of course, the…
By any measure, some of the communities sprouting up from within the walls of major corporate America are small. But the importance is life or death and the potential payoffs are big. Check out what’s happening at Oracle: http://oracleappslab.com/ and https://mix.oracle.com/. This isn’t anything Earth shattering, but it marks a permanent change to the way…