Friday April 27, 2007 One Proud Three-Year-Old
Happy Birthday, blogs.sun.com! We went from 0 to over 20 MILLION page views in just two short years. Third year anniversary figures are roughly half that number, but this can attributed to the rise of Web syndication, as shown below:
Suffice to say that BSC is changing the way the world perceives Sun — not just some nameless, faceless organization, but a collection of interesting and passionate people willing to share their personal and professional lives through the blogosphere.
While roughly 1 in 10 Sun employees blog, I've heard from non-bloggers who are proud to work for a company that encourages and supports its bloggers. The conversational nature of blogs opens up exciting new ways for engineers, product managers, technical writers, web designers, managers, directors, VPs, our CEO and the thousands of other people at Sun to talk to other employees, customers, competitors, partners, and the press.
We've embraced blogs in other ways, by adding them to our product pages like Solaris so people can easily tune into the buzz (good and bad) from Sun bloggers and people not affiliated with Sun, too (thanks, Technorati!). We have an opportunity to be shaped and changed through the insights we learn by conversing and participating in the blogosphere, and to influence others.
We can't rest on our laurels, and we realize there's lots more opportunities to participate on the Web at all levels of the organization — for example, not just people in software development and engineering, but the great folks in services, support and training.
But, today is worth celebrating. Congratulations to Linda, Rama, Allen, and David, and to all the bloggers, readers, commenters, and subscribers out there! Alright, I'm heading to my favorite Colorado brewpub for a pint!
Cheers, and Happy Birthday BSC!
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Thursday February 15, 2007 What is Web 2.0
What is web 2.0?
I've been having lots of conversations about this lately. I came across this video that speaks to some broader social concepts than people may be considering when they think of web 2.0. It's about more than widgets that do cool stuff. It's a profound shift.....
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Thursday January 04, 2007 New RSS page on sun.com - Demo
Increasingly, our customers are choosing to interact with the Web on their own terms. The Come to Me Web is enabled through content syndication, and anyone can build a custom web site with the information they care about.
RSS and similar technologies enable publishers and subscribers to connect, and we've just made it easier for people to find interesting and relevant content on Sun.com with a new RSS program page.
Watch the three minute demo (Quicktime movie, 25 Mbytes) and let us know what you think.
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US Presidential Election & Social Media
Something very cool happened in the last couple weeks. When John Edwards announced his intentions to run for US President in the 2008 election, he invited blog celebrity Robert Scoble to join him as he toured four states.
Why? Well, as John says in an interview with Robert, you'll never change this country unless people decide they want change. He explains that it can't be changed from the top down, but through grassroots bottom up democracy.
Robert said it best in his blog when he said "Who’s in charge of this election? You are." The same You who was Time's 2006 person of the year -- the particpation age community member.
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Thursday December 21, 2006 Social ITunes
Mashups bringing social metadata to music.
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Friday December 08, 2006 'Tis the Season for Sharing on SDN
In the spirit of this holiday season, The Sun Developer Network is reaching out to other online communities. You've seen the icons and links on many Blogger's pages to popular and fast-growing social news and bookmarking sites, like Del•icio•us, Digg.com, Technorati, and slashdot.
These sites enables you to easily save and retrieve bookmarks to cool content you discover on blogs.sun.com, and to share these stories, articles, downloads sites, tech tips, and so on with others.
Here is what Sharing looks like on the Sun Developer Network:
Rolling over the Share This Page link pops-up icons and links:
You can check it out on a live page, too:
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Thursday December 07, 2006 Lou in his natural habitat...
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Monday December 04, 2006 The Big Mashup and New Embedding Video Features on sun.com
We've got new functionality on the sun.com site. You can take the videos from the site and embed them in your own content (just like YouTube). This is really exciting as we can now share even more.
Here's a video about the BigMashup that launched on sun.com/bigmashup last week.
So go ahead, grab some Sun videos from our media center and put them out on your site. 
(Hint: Click on the 'embed' button.)
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Sunday December 03, 2006 Aggregation -- the next innovation for 'web 2.0'?
I believe aggregation and curation are going to contiue to be very interesting spaces in the near future. As so much content explodes from the legions of citizen journalists, artists, filmmakers and others that just want to communicate it will be impossible to find all the related content you'd want to consume without some help.
I think services that find the content for you, akin to something like Utne Reader in the magazine world, and allow you to edit/create content are going to be sorely needed sooner than we think.
As this has been on my mind, I came across Spokeo this weekend. I can see how the functionality it provides starts to build that more powerful 'one stop shop' page. Aggregation is based on the activities and services you already participate in.
It's essentially a page that brings in many of the most popular networking sites and services from the Internet today. The service it provides is a platform upon which you can leverage the social networks you already participate in while also continuing to add your own info.
I played with it for awhile and it works great. The user interface is easy to understand, gives great feedback and actually does a good job of encouraging someone to sign up.
So if we play platforms like these out into the future, we start to see some people emerging as organizers of content, those people might publish that content organziation out to a larger group of people that don't have the time or patience to go through it in as much detail. It creates that level of curation and lots of opportunity for interesting things to emerge.
I think the future holds some exciting times for innovation about how to present and consume the added volume of content that is being created. And also ways for people to consume much more specifically things that interest them.
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Wednesday November 22, 2006 C2 Bloggers Help Out with Sun UN Global Youth Summit
You may have noticed this story about Sun and the UN Global Youth Summit on sun.com.
The Sun C2 Bloggers, Linda, Lou, and myself were really fortunate because we got to share our stories about blogging with these youth leaders and present a Blogging 101 session to get them started. The best part about the sessions is that they really became conversations instead of presentations.
It is really exciting because these people are poised for big things and to have the opportunity to share with them the potentials of blogging was amazing. I personally blog about many things, but I'm not sure I'll ever be blogging about things that could change the world. These youth leaders on the other hand are poised to go out there and really utilize this tool (the blog) as a potential forum for world change. Go get 'em youth leaders and remember if you've got ongoing questions about this blogging thing, we gave you our emails so feel free to bug us. 
Also thanks to MaryMary one of Sun's star bloggers who added some excellent insight to the discussion.
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Wednesday November 15, 2006 Dawn of the DAUS, the ultimate Sys Admin Horror
A little fun from our friends in Sun eMarketing:
"'Dawn of the DAUS,' the ultimate Sys Admin horror, is coming to a desktop near you. Systems Hero Jeffrey battles incompetent internal customers and bosses in this online video series using his favorite "Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool" (a whip fashioned out of USB cable)."
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Monday November 13, 2006 The Sun Fire X4200 Server Is No Humpty Dumpty
It's alive! Watch a Sun Fire X4200 magically take itself apart then put itself back together again. Humpty Dumpty, eat your heart out!
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Friday November 03, 2006 HUGE Social Media Conversation News
As you know, our CEO is a huge fan of blogging & is considered the world's top Fortune 500 CEO blogger. A few weeks ago, he made another significant move toward further leveraging the power of effective communication via the internet -- he asked the SEC to clarify Regulation Fair Disclosure so it allows the use of the internet (blogs, websites, etc.) to release information to investors & the market that was required to be conveyed via a press release or conference call.
Well, guess what? Today,Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman responded...and...he responded via a blog comment on Jonathan's blog!
The wheels of change are turning quickly in the blogosphere!
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Thursday November 02, 2006 Darl Kuhn: "Postgres and Oracle 10g Haven't Put Me Out of a Job Yet"
Darl Kuhn, senior database engineer at Sun Microsystems, explains why his job is safe despite the Postgres database being bundled with Solaris 10, and Oracle 10g's automated features for database backup / recovery and performance tuning.
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Tuesday October 24, 2006 Jeff Ferreira: ZFS is "Faster, Stronger, Better"
Jeff Ferreira shares his experiences learning and teaching ZFS, a new file system included in the Solaris 10 OS that is easy to administer, resilient, scalable, and best of all — FREE!
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Friday October 20, 2006 Talk About Social Media
When interesting things happen, people talk about them. This week Sun had an interesting thing to talk about, Project BlackBox. One way I'm able to tell how much 'buzz' something is getting is all the 'google alerts' on a topic. Today I got this alert about Sun, it was all the people talking about Project Blackbox.
From Reuters to Scientific American to LinuxInsider, lots of people were talking. Pretty cool stuff, especially the scenarios.
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Google News Alert for: "Sun Microsystems"
Sun Microsystems says unveils portable data center
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN FRANCISCO – Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday unveiled a portable data center housed in a standard shipping container, an undertaking ...
Sun Microsystems says unveils portable data center
Scientific American - USA
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday unveiled a portable data center housed in a standard shipping container ...
Sun Microsystems Unveils 'Portable' Data Center
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... where portability is key, Sun says. By Reuters. SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday unveiled a portable data center housed ...
Sun Microsystems Unveils Data Center
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has a novel twist on the data centre: a portable version of the hulking outposts ...
Sun Microsystems unveils data center
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By JORDAN ROBERTSON. AP BUSINESS WRITER. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has a novel twist on ...
Sun Microsystems Unveils Portable Data Center
LinuxInsider.com - Encino,CA,USA
AP. Sun Microsystems has introduced what it calls a "data center in a box." The portable data center has all the necessary servers, storage and networking ...
Sun Microsystems says unveils portable data center
Reuters - USA
... from April 2004 to April... Full Bio. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on ...
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Thinking of doing corporate podcasting?
If so, the Podonomics Blog has a fantastic list of do's and don'ts based on Starbuck's Podcasts.
My two favorite Podonomics don'ts that every corporate podcaster can benefit from are:
- "Both hosts were obviously reading from a script. How inauthentic."
- "It was waaaaaaaaay too informercial. Every few minutes, the hosts talked about what’s for sale at their store."
- "Get stories from those who serve coffee behind the counter on some of the weirdest requests they’ve received from customers. Sort of like Niles Crane from Frasier, when he would always ask for coffee with fat free cream, whipped cream without the froth and a splash of nutmeg without the spice. There must be some crazy customers like that."
- "Interview customers on some of the wildest, saddest, happiest moments that happened to them while sipping on a brew at their stores. I know I’ve closed a good number of business deals at Starbucks located at Yonge & King in Downtown Toronto, so I’d have some great stories to tell."
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Saturday October 14, 2006 Having Fun At Work Is A Good Thing
One of the many benefits of the new ways in which we can have social conversations is that we can share experiences that were never possible before. I think the example of the Dancing Architect shows how you can look into a company (in this case Sun) and its culture and get a glimpse of the people to better understand the fabric of it. It's also a fun example of being able to join a company picnic or party but not really be there.
Thanks YouTube, without you we never would have gotten to see this.
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