Oracle AppsLab - Latest Comments in Time for Questions

Re: Time for Questions

Jof Arnold — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:37:14 -0000

@Jake - "All you can eat for a keyword".

Our facebook app, Blog Friends, can do exactly that: we supply you blogs based on keyword likes/dislikes, filtered and contextualized via your social network.
We've 7,500 users so far and have indexed 200,000 blog posts: the more friends you have with the app, the better the content you'll get. If you're a blogger it's not just a great way of discovering new content (and indeed new bloggers), but also for driving new visitors to you site.

You can find the app at: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...

Jof - Blog Friends

Re: Time for Questions

Jake — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:10:34 -0000

I notice that Reader is doing it again today, and maybe after the dust settles from yesterday's Apple announcements, someone will notice.

I agree there isn't a killer app way to get all the content you can eat for a keyword. Seems like Google would be able to do that, but they're too interested in ads.

Jake

Re: Time for Questions

Niall Litchfield — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:32:23 -0000

Hi

I'm not really convinced that the technology has caught up with the user expectation yet. Or maybe just my expectation - I think that I currently have approximately 863 different ways of reading feeds I'm interested in - and I'm not entirely happy with any of them. Google reader works well enough but feels clunky, my mail client will read rss feeds, but then I nearly always have to fire up a browser to read the article anyway - my firefox live bookmarks have become a forest and so on. I signed up for a facebook account specifically to do the google reader thing you refer to, but don't like facebook (heresy!) or the applet over the share feature of google reader anyway. And so on.

I suppose my expectation is to get all the stuff I'd want to read but never find, without all the stuff I don't want in an intuitive interface and delivered to me. Preferably just by tagging my interest at Oracle and leaving it at that. That's not much to ask is it?

Re: Time for Questions

eddieawad — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:47:40 -0000

I did notice minor changes in my Google Reader yesterday, like the ability to expand/collapse the sidebar by clicking a small arrow, and the "Loading" message was moved to the top. But today, these changes are gone.

To stay up to date with the latest "buzz" on the net, I do subscribe to Techmeme and doggdot.us, in addition to Dzone and of course OraNA.info. These 4 feeds and the del.icio.us/tag/oracle feed are responsible for most of the unread items in my GReader.