For two months a staggering number of developers, scattered all over the earth, have been toiling away at the second Force.com Developer Challenge! The challenge was simple and open-ended: building it on Force.com, learn, and have fun. There was also mention of a MacBook Pro and other goodies, which seems to have provided an incentive! Five of us pored over the many good entries and filtered down to the 80 valid entries looking for that little something that excited us – we looked for style, for technical ability, for pizzaz, and that little x-factor. So without further ado, here are the top three outstanding submissions: The Cookbook , by Wes Nolte, gets the MacBook Pro! It’s novel, provides interesting search, keywording, ranking and relatedness features, has a great clean UI, integrates print and reCAPTCHA, and much more.

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Developer Force Challenge Results!

FinancialForce.com, a company that provides financial and accounting software as a service, will operate from Salesforce.com’s Silicon Valley campus.

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Salesforce.com Launches SaaS Company

I was working with a customer recently who tracks custom data elements per client. For example for Acme Inc, the customer may track a field called “Cost Center”, but for Slate Rubble, the customer wants to track “Annual Stone Usage” etc.

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Tracking Unique Data Elements with Custom Objects

Today Google opened up their Wave preview to about 100,000 people.  I am excited to announce that we have put together a new demo on how you might leverage the Wave platform on salesforce.com and how you might leverage salesforce.com from Wave.

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Getting in Front of the Wave

Just a reminder: ReadWriteWeb’s own Real-Time Web Summit is only a few weeks away, and some excellent participants are now signed up. You can download the event calendar below in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry.

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 26 September 2009

We are excited to announce the Consultant Resource Center . Our consulting partner ecosystem is growing, spanning every geography and vertical, actively searching for the right content for the right project.

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Introducing the Consultant Resource Center

We are excited to announce the Consultant Resource Center .

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Introducing the Consultant Resource Center

Now think about how organizations are starting to rely on Cloud-based services, such as Amazon S3 (storage) and Force.com (sales force automation). These services are not on-premises SOA service, so they are not in the SOA registry/repository. But the organization relies on these services! This means that the registry/repository does not contain a full compliment of the services which are used by an organization.

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The Multi-Domain Registry/Repository

NetSuite, a company that provides cloud-based business management software suites, is furthering its mobile strategy by launching a free iPhone app to compliment its web-based products. The iPhone app gives NetSuite users on-the-go access to the company’s on-demand SaaS offerings, which include real-time dashboards with financial and customer data from CRMs and other applications. A competitor to Salesforce.com, NetSuite offers four main types of cloud computing software: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), CRM, accounting, and ecommerce software

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NetSuite Launches iPhone App To Access Business Software On The Go

Two companies have been selected at the DEMOfall 09 conference to receive $1 million in free advertising. The winner on the consumer side was Emo Labs , which developed a speaker that delivers great sound, despite the limited space in high-definition TVs

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DEMO: Emo Labs and Liaise win $1M media prize