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Howard Greenstein · 2 years ago

Thanks for working on this guys. It's needed and welcome as a project, and great to see folks in competing companies doing great work together..

Jake · 2 years ago

It should be noted that Eddie and Craig did all the heavy lifting in their respective free time. This is also a great case study for the power of weak ties.

http://oracleappslab.com/2007/10/04/on-ties/

Steve · 2 years ago

Awesome stuff!

Jeremiah Stone · 2 years ago

Very cool stuff, but is it really necessary to cast this as a watershed moment?

Geeks love building interesting, useful objects. If given an opportunity and no competitive issues exist, they collaborate. This has always been and always will be the case.

dah · 2 years ago

@Jeremiah - I know anecdotally you're right but I think it is a moment to savor given the competitive nature of the companies involved. It's not something I've seen happen before. Of course I could be completely wrong. Either way, it is really nice to see this happening in such a good spirited way.

MidtownNinja · 2 years ago

Hello,

I’ve just implemented related functionality (not necessarily collaborative, but related to event tracking) as a content-timing service called WhenGuard (http://whenguard.com). Website visitors can create special timed links, known as jitlinks, around RSS feeds or any Internet content that has a URL. These jitlinks will automatically publish the content they mask at a given time (and can optionally, unpublish it too).

If you set up a jitlink around a Twitter RSS feed with both a publish time and an unpublish time and then stick it in an infinitely caching reader like Google Reader, you’ve effectively created a time slice for feed content–the equivalent of Tivo for RSS.

The service is in its early stages, so I’d appreciate any feedback I could get through the site’s feedback link: http://whenguard.com/feedback

Thanks,
MidtownNinja

Ontario Emperor · 2 years ago

I tweeted some Oracle sessions on my own, while tweeting some other sessions (including Larry Ellison's keynote) in collaboration with others via Eddie Awad's @oow Twitter account. Collaborative tweeting is much easier to find, and offers much better quality. Highly recommended.