Sat.Dec 03, 2011 - Fri.Dec 09, 2011

Ari Herzog

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Can Oracle Be More Boring?

Ari Herzog

Oracle Corporation is launching a new social network — called the Oracle Public Cloud — geared to business departments to share and collaborate. It’s scheduled to arrive in 2012. But can they create a more boring video? By contrast, Google Inc. created a more attractive video about their Google+ social network that launched earlier this year.

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Musing About QR Codes

Ari Herzog

Hold your smartphone up to this image and, if you have Google Goggles or another barcode-reading application active, you can scan this and be shown information about me. I see QR codes everywhere these days, from newspaper classified advertisements to restaurant menus to retail storefront doors. With the proliferation of mobile phone sales and applications developed for the phones, it is natural that companies will try to market their products to people on the go.

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