Enterprise Relevance of Web 2.0 (in six parts)
Back in November of 2007 I gave a one-hour talk in Tyson's Corner, VA entitled "The Enterprise Relevance of Web 2.0." There were probably about…
2008
An International Phenomenon
Feedhaus is making quite a splash internationally. Lately, we've gotten news coverage in German (of course), Spanish, French (again), Portuguese,…
Write an ALUI IDS in Under 15 Lines Using Ruby on Rails
Not only is it possible to write an ALUI Identity Service in Ruby on Rails, it's remarkably easy. I was able to do the entire authentication part in…
Feedhaus Featured on The Web 2.0 Show
Josh Owens and Chris Saylor of The Web 2.0 Show interviewed me for their podcast. Give it a listen.
One Portal to Rule Them All
I won't rehash what's already been said by everyone in the press and the blogosphere -- Oracle is buying BEA. I wrote almost three years ago that…
2007
Getting Social at BEA Participate 2008
This week BEA launched the Participate 2008 blog and revealed more about their plans for what is shaping up to be a great event. Perhaps the most…
Why I. . . .
A couple weeks ago I teamed up with college buddy, recent Kellogg grad and former PayPal/eBay product manager Chris Gregory to design and write a fun…
Introducing the Feedhaus Newsroom
Team Feedhaus is very pleased to announce the launch of the Feedhaus Newsroom. Powered by feedhaus but integrated seamlessly with meebo, the newsroom…
My Love Affair with Instant Messaging
Do you love instant messaging? I do. / In fact, I remember the first time I used a chat room when my parents signed us up for AppleLink, a BBS…
feedhaus sponsors MashMeet Chicago
We're pleased to announce that we're sponsoring Chicago's first MashMeet, an event designed to bring Chicago's best Web 2.0 startups together for a…
meebo launches games!
meebo, the multi-band, web-based instant messaging site, just rolled out a host of games that you can play with your IM buddies on any network: AOL,…
Introducing the feedhaus Facebook widget
We're very happy to announce that Facebook has approved the feedhaus widget for inclusion in their application directory. Right now the widget is…
feedhaus sponsors MashMeet DC
We're pleased to announce that we're sponsoring DC's first MashMeet, an event designed to bring DC's best Web 2.0 startups together for a night of…
Charles Knight's Christmas List
I've very pleased to announce that feedhaus was listed among the Top Five Web Applications that Charles Knight wants for Christmas. Actually, there…
Apple's Subtle F.U. to Microsoft
We've come a long way since 1997, when Microsoft invested $150M in the beleaguered Apple, perhaps so that there would still be a platform on which to…
The Enterprise Relevance of Web 2.0
Register Now! / The concepts behind Web 2.0, social networks, and collaboration are now poised to transform your enterprise, providing solutions such…
BEA Participate 2008 Announced
From an e-mail I just received: / Mark your calendar today to attend a gathering of BEA customers, partners and product experts in Chicago, Illinois…
feedhaus Featured on Robert Scoble's Video Blog
Robert Scoble and I had a great talk the other day. Robert, an avid feed consumer, was an excellent critic of the site -- this video will give you an…
Oracle and BEA: Wait, Not So Fast
BEA thinks they're worth more than the $6.7B offered by Oracle. I guess the ball is back in Oracle's court, now. This could get interesting. /…
Feedhaus reviewed by KillerStartups.com
We posted our first press release this week, announcing the availability of our public alpha. In response, we picked up lots of new registered users…
Why we need "Enterprise Facebook"
Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and an outspoken advocate of Enterprise 2.0, wrote this great blog post about why…
Predictions: Will Oracle Acquire BEA?
There's been a lot of speculation in response to some press releases from Oracle that an all-cash buyout of BEA may be immanent. More than two years…
Feedhaus Launches Public Alpha to Deliver Real-time Personalized News,...
Feedhaus announced today that it has released its social news site into public alpha to deliver real-time news, images and videos that are personally…
Make feedhaus Your Own
The feedhaus team here at bdg is very pleased to announce that we've added personalization to feedhaus! / The new section of the site -- called "my…
feedhaus Now Supported by Ads
You may notice that the detail pages are now ad-supported. I would have implemented this weeks ago, but Google was very slow to approve our AdSense…
feedhaus Now on New Hardware
In response to some complaints from my hosting company and registrar that we were using too much CPU and bandwidth, I've moved feedhaus from a…
Podcast: Interview with feedhaus Developer Andrew Bays
The podcast returns (after another six month hiatus) with an interview of feedhaus developer Andrew Bays. If you're interested in the inner workings…
More on the New feedhaus Features
Nearly every new user who gets on feedhaus has the same question: can I narrow the tag cloud down to only the topics/tags that I care about? My…
feedhaus Alpha 2 is Live
We made a few notable changes, including revamping the "add a feed" page by adding clearer feedback and better instructions. We also made the feed…
feedhaus Public Alpha Begins . . . Now!
We've put the "Alpha 1" build up and removed the password protection, which marks the beginning of the feedhaus public alpha! / In this build, we've…
Web 2.0 and Cascading SLAs
Herein lies a great example of one of the downsides of Web 2.0. It's something I call "cascading SLAs." / I was checking feedhaus today and I noticed…
Realtime Features of feedhaus
For those of you taking part in the private alpha, did anyone notice any of Feedhaus's realtime features? / Well, here are some hints as to where to…
Feedhaus Launches Private Alpha
I'm very pleased to announce that bdg's social news site and first consumer play, Feedhaus, has entered a private alpha. / Powered by RSS/ATOM feeds,…
We're alpha!
I'm very pleased to announce that this evening I installed Build 0 on our development server, so now we're officially alpha. / Here's the note I sent…
Upcoming AquaLogic Training Classes in DC
bdg is hosting an AquaLogic (Plumtree) Training Class in Washington, DC the week of September 24th. / We'll be sticking with the format we used last…
meebo Sells Out
It has been a long time coming, but meebo has finally succumbed to the pressures of a basic business truth that they've been dutifully ignoring: / in…
Visual Design
We started applying the visual design tonight, which means one thing: we're getting close! The image to the left is the first cut at the logo. The…
Progress Report
The wheels of the Feedhaus machine are spinning along . . . . / Today we installed an early prototype on the development server and validated that…
bdg Becomes a BEA VAR
All of us at bdg are very pleased to announce that we've converted our BEA partner relationship from a "Select Services Partner" to a "Value Added…
bdg Announces Plans to Launch Social News Site
Today bdg announced plans to launch a Web 2.0 social news site in Q3 of this calendar year (2007). / This site, which will be called Feedhaus, will…
Welcome to Feedhaus
Welcome to the Feedhaus blog! / Several of us at bdg are working hard to bring you a next-generation, Web 2.0 news site that will change the way the…
BEA Releases Web 2.0 Products
BEA has released version 1.0 of Pages, Ensemble and Pathways (formerly known as projects Builder, Runner and Graffiti)! / This marks BEA's first…
Chris Bucchere Quoted in BEA Research Brief
Off The Record Research, a subscription-based Wall Street publication, recently prepared a research brief on BEA that was released to their customers…
bdg gives away a Video iPod
Here I am on the last day of BEA Participate awarding a Video iPod to Niren Patel, who accepted the winning iPod on behalf of his coworker Karl…
Chris Bucchere Interviewed by the Sloan (MIT) School of Management
Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by former Plumtreevian and soon-to-be-graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, John Osborne.…
Live from BEA Participate: Mark Carges Keynote
I already held Mark Carges in very high esteem -- but my respect for him grew immensely this morning when I found out that he wrote the source for…
BEA Participate Rapidly Approaching
All of us at bdg are starting to get excited about BEA Participate! As you already know, we're sponsoring this year's ALUI and ALBPM event and I'm…
ALUI (Plumtree) Training Postponed
We had some conflicts, so we postponed the Herndon, VA-based training to next week. It's now 4/16-4/18 for administrators and 4/18-4/20 for…
Firebug in IE -- No Joke!
I realize it's close to April Fools' Day, but this is not a joke: you can actually use Firebug in IE. Well, sort of. Joe Hewitt, the author of every…
Bringing Web 2.0 to the en.terpri.se
First, let me establish one thing: I don't work for BEA. Since leaving Plumtree more than four years ago, neither Plumtree nor BEA has paid me a…