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

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 , 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

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)

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?

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

There are a plethora of enterprise friendly collaboration platforms to choose from these days, with Yammer, Salesforce, Jive, Bantam Live, Socialcast , and others all vying for marketshare.

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Socialtext 4.0 Launches With Groups, Better Search, And Activity Stream Filtering

CA Identity Manager can now be used to automate processes, such as provisioning and de-provisioning user access, for Salesforce.com’s sales forecasting application.

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CA Extends Identity Management to Salesforce.Com Apps

The e-book hype reached its apex just before the holiday season. Now seems like a good time to take a closer look at the e-book market, especially given that this business is heading for another disruption once Apple’s iPad launches.

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E-Books: After the Hype and Before the iPad

Members of the standards body include Novell, Microsoft, Dell, Rackspace, Qualys, HP, Intel, Cisco, McAfee, Salesforce.com, and Symantec.

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Cloud Security Alliance To Tackle Cloud Standards