In addition to Oracle Mix, Oracle Wiki and Oracle Community, OAUG will be launching yet another Oracle related social network called the Knowledge Factory.

The Knowledge Factory will provide a platform for users to exchange ideas, experiences, and expertise within the Oracle Applications member community. It will feature user profiles with pictures and biographies, blogs, forums […]

Google just announced a new Google Maps feature:

Starting today, Google Maps supports collaborative map-making, so multiple people can edit the same My Map. Just click the “Collaborate” link and enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite. They’ll receive an email invitation with a link to the map. Once they […]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Oracle now has an official wiki site, hosted by wetpaint. From the wiki’s FAQ:

Oracle is providing this wiki so that customers and partners (and anyone else interested in Oracle) can collaboratively create and share content that is helpful to the community at large–whether installation guides and tips, project documentation, […]

The Oracle best and worst practices wiki is a community wiki, which means that anyone can make additions or edit any page on the site. I have already added a few pages to start it off. Feel free to contribute. But, like in any other wiki, your content may be mercilessly edited or even […]

I stumbled upon the Business Rules of Thumb Wiki via Seth Godin blog. For example:

In a negotiation, he who cares less, wins. - Anonymous Simple and inexpensive beats complicated and expensive. - Rod Elder The best way to find good ideas is to let people tell you what the good ideas are. - Niel Robertson In public speaking, […]

Absolutely, in fact:

Wikipedia is absolutely open to absolutely anyone contributing to absolutely anything! As long as you haven’t been banned, or the article you’re contributing to hasn’t been locked, or there isn’t a group of people waiting to delete anything you write, or you don’t make the same change more than three times in one […]