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…
2007
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…
Four ALI IDKs at your Disposal -- Fifth One on the Way?
As most of you already know, there are four IDKs out there in IDK-land. To take a step back, if you're really new to ALUI (formerly Plumtree)…
ALI G6 on Ubuntu?
Some of you may be familiar with my rants on the bdg blog about how Linux just isn't ready for the desktop. My opinion on that matter has largely…
Portals and SOA: Portals in a Service-Oriented Architecture
I've been invited to give the following talk at BEA Participate: / Why is a Service-Oriented Architecture important to an IT infrastructure and what…
bdg Sponsorship of BEA Participate 2007 Confirmed
Here's some more shameless self-promotion (isn't that what blogging is all about?) -- we've just been confirmed as a sponsor for BEA Participate…
What is Enterprise 2.0?
The bdg Plumtree podcast returns with a nice little segment on Enterprise 2.0 and, specifically, how it relates to BEA and bdg. / So, if you're…
Upcoming ALUI (Plumtree) Training -- April 9th, 2007
We're very pleased to announce that we've finalized the date for our next ALUI/Plumtree training course, scheduled for the week of April 9th, 2007. /…
BEA Announces ALUI/ALBPM User Conference
This just in: BEA has announced that they will be hosting a user conference for ALUI and ALBPM customers and prospects. This conference is called…
BEA Participate
A quiet little announcement was made last week: BEA plans to host an ALUI (formerly Plumtree) and ALBPM (formerly Fuego) user conference!…
Happy Birthday, bdg!
bdg just turned four! To celebrate the beginning of year five, we've launched a new web site. It's all about how bdg, given our background of…
WLP + Adrenaline = ALI?
I recall sitting in a meeting in 1998 where we were discussing how to aggregate portlet content into a portal page. We talked a lot about iframes but…
2006
ALUI Fireside Chat, Round 2: Friday 12/15 9-5 EST
It's time for another ALUI fireside chat! Join the ALUI/Plumtree community for an entire workday's worth of smores, ghost stories and Kumbaya. The…