ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010

It’s SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences – or just sick and tired of hearing about them – but if you’re in New York City this week, don’t miss what’s sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus. How do you like your events calendar?

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010

Chatter & Google Wave. So many possibilities.

These days there are just so many great technology projects around it is difficult to focus for too long on one. For the past few weeks I have been heads down working with Chatter: producing articles, demos, and talking with developers.

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Get the Most Out of Force.com Labs

Force.com Labs is the largest publisher of Apps on the AppExchange . There are almost 200 Apps, all available for free. Where did these come from and how can you get the most out of them?

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Get the Most Out of Force.com Labs

The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped

Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com .

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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped

What’s next for Google’s Apps Marketplace — contextual gadgets and more

A few hours before Google officially announced its Apps Marketplace , I had a chance to interview someone at Google and a partner company about the news.

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What’s next for Google’s Apps Marketplace — contextual gadgets and more

Triggers on User Creation

I’ve just been trying to figure out how to trigger some action on User creation. For example, imagine you want to make sure that a new user automatically follows some important folk in Chatter! ( signed up yet?) It turns out to be a little tricky because the User object is a little special. The documentation states that some objects “require that you perform DML operations on only one type per transaction” – the User object is one of these objects.

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Triggers on User Creation

Spigit offers social media platform for company contests

Spigit , the maker of a social networking platform that lets businesses use crowdsourcing to solve internal problems, is launching a new platform today that will allow external crowdsourcing as well. ContestSpigit is a $5,000 a month software-as-a-service offering for businesses that want to interact with an external audience of customers, partners or the community at large, said Richard Tso, head of marketing for the Pleasanton, Calif.-based firm.

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Spigit offers social media platform for company contests

7 Precious Snowflakes That Almost Melted Away (Our Favorite Low Profile Stories This Week)

Every one of our blog posts around here is like a delicate, magical snowflake that we nurture lovingly (if quickly) before we push it out the door into the harsh lonely world of the web. Many of them are well received (otherwise we couldn’t do this for a living) but sometimes we write something we’re really proud of and it just melts into the river of news without being read by as many people as we wished. Thus we present to you, our staff’s hand-picked posts this week that we think you may have missed but would likely enjoy quite a bit: Sponsor Frederic Lardinois has been covering the e-book market closely for months

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7 Precious Snowflakes That Almost Melted Away (Our Favorite Low Profile Stories This Week)

Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?

Small cap hell is where you end up in about six months after your IPO, when all the high fives and champagne have receded into a distant memory. Unless your company is big enough. How big is big enough?

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Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?

Intro to Chatter article now available

I wanted to let you know that my Introduction to Chatter article is now available . I tried to make sure I covered everything you need to start extending Chatter, and making it your own

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Intro to Chatter article now available

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