A few weeks ago I was in Bangalore, India. Bangalore has many well stocked book stores and alongside these large shops are dozens of roadside booksellers who hawk new, old and bootlegged copies of popular Indian, British and American books. The “display shelf” is part of the sidewalk on which they spread their wares, the rest of the inventory is in boxes.
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The power of Ideas
The code share project continues to grow and the latest addition is a very interesting twist on Amazon & Force.com called Cloud Share . There are several cool apps to move data, including my old favorite excel connector, but if i were writing a tool today, I probably would end up with something close to this. John describes the idea behind this tool in his blog , and I would like to commend Model Metrics for contributing this tool to the Code Share
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Cloud Loader on Code Share
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just published the Sites Gallery , a gallery of public web sites that are built on Force.com, ranging from Dell IdeaStorm to Developer Challenge winners such as GameCraze . If you’re looking for some ideas of what to build, head on over! Some sites are implementations of Ideas, others are e-commerce sites, and a few are some you may already be familiar with: our very own AppExchange marketplace, and parts of Developer Force
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Sites Gallery of Public Web Sites Built on Force.com
Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another reason may be that Skype flies in the face of conventional Valley wisdom that says it has to be all about social media. Or maybe the fact that Skype came from Europe, and we all know that Europeans are just lunch-eating dilettantes
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Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era
Clara Shih, creator of the Faceforce (now Faceconnector) application and Director of Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy at Salesforce.com , is officially launching her new book T he Facebook Era : Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (Prentice Hall) tomorrow. Everyone seems to have a Facebook profile nowadays, but Shih draws upon her experience creating a pioneering business application for Facebook (plus plenty of other research) to explain how you can use Facebook and other social networks for business. I interviewed her a week ago about her book, what Facebook means for business, and how Facebook is changing society as a whole
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Author Clara Shih on the Facebook Era, and what it means for businesses
Something is happening and you don’t know what it is, goes the song. Tech strangely, it’s turning out that the Web operating system we all thought would one day challenge Windows and serve as a portal to a universe of online-hosted apps turns out instead to be cloud computing. I breathed the buzz of cloud’s success the other day as I caught up with the New York City edition of Salesforce.com’s tenth anniversary, cross-country victory tour, and I shot a video
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Video: Inside Salesforce.com’s Tenth Anniversary Victory Tour
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Weekly Wrapup: Ghost Twittering, Last.fm Charges, Future of Firefox, And More…
The Force.com cloud platform provides an elastic environment for applications, but development in the cloud occurs within a constrained environment.
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Salesforce Keeps Tight Control On Cloud Development
Salesforce.com’s plan to integrate Twitter into its Service Cloud customer service platform could benefit competitors.
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Salesforce and Twitter Could Power Dirty Tricks
Despairing of getting an answer from just about anybody’s customer service these days, people are turning instead to Twitter to solve their product problems.
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Salesforce To Tweet
