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, […]

Do you want to know which Oracle related blogs are the most linked to? Do you want to know which Oracle related blog posts are the most viewed? Just visit the following two pages on OraNA.info:

OraNA Technorati Ranking: I published a similar list twice before, once in May and once in July 2007. This time, […]

Last Sunday the geek in me wanted to learn something new. So, I went ahead and got started with iPhone development. I wanted to build something simple yet useful. I started at 4:30 PM and by around 8:15 PM an iPhone optimized version of OraNA.info was born.

The following is a short video demonstration of OraNA […]

There is at least one person who is not happy with Jake’s old-fashioned game of blog tag. Howard Rogers has shut down his website in protest against this latest blog tag craze. Right now, it’s a madhouse I want no part of, Howard writes on his, now one page, site. He also expressed his frustration […]

Jake Kuramoto has tagged me to write eight things about myself in an effort to “learn more about the people you interact with using New Web”. Without further ado, here I am personally telling you 8 secrets about my personal life:

Now, the next tagged victims are: Tom Kyte, Doug Burns, Mark Rittman, Ameed Taylor, Alex […]

The Digg site for Oracle stuff, that’s how Matt Topper described his newly born Oracle site ora-click.com, where you can submit Oracle related stories or articles and vote on submitted ones.

For a start, articles with at least three votes will be promoted to the front page. You can grab the front page’s RSS feed here. […]

I spent a few hours last weekend categorizing the 300+ Oracle related blogs that are aggregated by OraNA. I tried to follow the categorization on blogs.oracle.com, plus I added a few more.

The new OraNA categories currently include the following:

Application Express (APEX) (RSS)

Applications and Apps Technology (RSS)

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Last May I published a list of top Oracle blogs ranked by Technorati authority. Since then, I have had requests to publish an updated list. I was reluctant to do it because creating the list takes quite a bit of time. However, last Sunday afternoon, I was able to automate the creation of the spreadsheet. […]

If you are one of the lucky people who was greeted by the following dreaded error page when you visited my blog, OraQA.com or OraNA.info in the past few weeks, I have good news for you (and me). Obviously, the shared hosting account that I had with BlueHost.com could not handle the load of three […]

I’m not a big fan of blogrolls. A blogroll is a collection of links to other blogs. I believe what’s more interesting and useful is to have a a collection of links to other blog posts and web pages, or a linkblog. Some bloggers use the shared items in Google Reader as their linkblog. Robert Scoble uses this […]