Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

Friday morning is not complete without going over the latest Log Buffer and choosing few good articles to read over the weekend. Problem is that the last two Log Buffers are too MySQL oriented for me, and missing terrific posts from Oracle blogs.
As a service to my readers, here are the missing posts:
Rob Van-Wijk demonstrates […]

Recently here’s been a whole bunch of Web2.0 initiatives in the Oracle space.

Oracle Mix
Oracle Wiki
Oracle Twitter feed
Open World Connect
the notorious blog tagging epidemic

Plus all the other sites like LinkedIn. And now Eddie Awad has create an Oracle Community site, a kind of Facebook it’s okay to like.

I have signed up for Oracle Community but I’m really not sure whether I’ll use it much. We’ve gone from almost nothing apart from OFF TOPIC threads in the forums to a plethora of sites in a few months. A man doesn’t have to be Howard Rogers to feel that this is getting out of hand. There’s a tremendous amount of overlap between all these sites and the purpose of each site isn’t completely clear. Oracle Wiki seems to consist mainly of people redacting the documentation. Oracle Mix struck me as both over-engineered (lots of different things it could do) and under-engineered (impossible to find anything on the site); perhaps its purpose has become clearer now but I must admit the site navigation was so flawed I stopped visiting.

I will be interested to see whether Oracle Community keeps going after the initial spike of registrations and page customisation. There is an obvious need for some better form of communication between Oracle enthusiasts than adding comments to blog posts or forum threads but which doesn’t require giving out personal contact details to all and sundry. Perhaps Oracle Community is the one.

Postscript

Just after I signed up I read this article on The Register about Facebook fatigue. It’s worth a read.

I pre-launched OracleCommunity.net as a private, invite only social network this morning. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably got the scoop first.

Now, I’m officially launching OracleCommunity.net and making it public and available to everyone in the Oracle community. If you are an Oracle developer, DBA, customer, employee, or just interested in Oracle databases, […]

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