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

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

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

Sometimes the simplest tips are the best. It always surprises me how many people forget about the System Log Console. This innocuous little link at the top of your Salesforce screen is a gem for debugging code snippets or tracking code execution

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Using the System Log and Filters to speed debug time.

Mashery, a startup that helps software companies market, distribute and keep track of their application programming interfaces (APIs), has just raised $5.5 million in a third round of venture funding, according to a filing with the SEC . With more web-based startups releasing APIs to extend their capabilities and engage users, this type of service seems to be in higher demand than ever — a fact that attracted attention and cash from Cisco Systems.

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Cisco adds to $5.5M bagged by Mashery to manage APIs

George John is CEO of display advertising technology company Rocket Fuel . It’s fashionable to talk about online ad inventory as a commodity that can be traded on exchanges and priced fairly through a market mechanism, just like trading stocks on Wall Street. The analogy misses important differences between online ad inventory and commodities, ones that create opportunities for companies that have the technology to capitalize on the distinctions.

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You can’t manage online ad inventory like a stock market

I remember when I first started programming in Java many years ago. I used to walk the isles of my local bookstore (remember those brick and mortar things we all used to visit?). The shelves were filled with books on C, a few smatterings of web design, and of course, the trusty O’Reilly In a Nutshell books; but alas, there were no Java books.

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Development with the Force.com Platform

Jive Software , a company that builds social networking tools for businesses, just announced that it’s looking for a new chief executive. Dave Hersh, the outgoing CEO, is switching roles to become Portland, Ore.-based Jive’s chairman of the board, where he will take a less hands-on role in managing the company. Board member Tony Zingale is taking over as interim CEO while Jive looks for a permanent replacement

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Social tool maker Jive hunts for a new CEO