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
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
Spring ‘10 saw the general availability of one of my favorite new features of the platform: the Apex Scheduler. With the Apex Scheduler, developers can now schedule cron style jobs to run any Apex classes which implement the Schedulable interface .
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Using Scheduled Apex jobs to retrieve stock quotes.
Today, Saleforce takes the wraps off Chatter pilot program. After several months of testing with select customers, it is going into production for this group. We reviewed Chatter with SalesForce’s VP of Corporate Strategy, Bruce Francis and SVP Product Marketing, Kraig Swensrud to find out what all the excitement was about
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Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real Time Enterprise Tools
A look at outages for cloud computing services over the past two years shows that most are minimal, a subset of the entire network. Very few cloud outages have caused massive data losses.
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Top 5 Cloud Outages of the Past Two Years: Lessons Learned
IDC reported today that the majority of business workers use the social Web at least once a week. Social computing and the cloud are becoming equally integral in the enterprise.
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Why Social Enterprise and Cloud Computing Go Hand in Hand
It pains me, truly, to see a cloud platform being praised for its resemblance to what developers already know. If I could say, “already know and love,” that would be another thing — but what about platforms that developers merely know and tolerate? My next live webinar will look at ways to move to a higher level.
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Coming to You Live — but not from Stockholm
Clearwell has hit its stride as a provider of eDiscovery services. The company provides a way to search through terabytes of emails, company records, and other data to narrow down a legal search to whatever documents are most relevant to its case
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Clearwell expanding as legal discovery fuels fast document search
We’re a couple weeks past Dreamforce now, where we had unprecedented numbers of people passing through the Force.com Zone . I’ve been thinking about our ever growing community, and wanted to write about how much we appreciate each and every one of you taking the time and making the effort to come to Dreamforce. During the show, one of the ways we tried to show our appreciation, get a conversation going with the community, and have some fun was through our twitter feeds.
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Dreamforce ‘09: Trivia Contest Wrap up!
Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket , and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.com.
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Microsoft misses the boat on web applications
