I have had a lot of people asking me when the session recording for my recent Dreamforce presentation Ready To Ride the Google Wave will be available on the internet. Good news is it now available on youtube ,  and slides may be downloaded in pdf .   In addition, I have uploaded all the source code from both demonstrations (Sassy the Simple Wave, and Boohyah Mobile.) You will find some simple installation instructions contained within each zip but here is a quick run through of what you will need: Pre-Requisites: Download the Force.com for Google App Engine toolkit , and follow the instructions on how to set it up

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Ready To Ride the Google Wave session recording and code posted

One of the things that stuck me while watching the Chatter  presentation and  demo was the asynchronous and event driven nature of the collaboration taking place. As an example, any number of activities happening at your customer account – identification of a new opportunity, a project being completed, etc. can be treated as event that can be handled by the right people or system which in turn could trigger additional events and so on. Let us look at a few of the attributes of this style of interaction.

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Chatter and Event Driven Architecture (EDA)

As many of us celebrate the beginning of the holiday season and the end of 2009, it’s a good opportunity to take a step back to see how far we’ve come as an industry in advancing cloud computing . Despite tough economic times this past year, we’ve seen that entrepreneurship and innovation still happen  around significant technology and business models like cloud computing – something that may represent the most profound shift our industry has seen in decades .  Our annual Dreamforce conference has become the de facto industry event for cloud computing and serves as an annual capstone for not only salesforce.com but our entire community of customers and partners too

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Giving Thanks to the Cloud

A lot has been said about the latest Dreamforce’09 Event. A lot will be said, too

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After the Crowds

Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That’s compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before.

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What a Rock Band Can Teach Businesses About Social Networks

Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That’s compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before. Even more, it’s an important reminder of the advantage of building your own applications over complete reliance on a social network that does not give you access to the customer information that you have developed on the platform

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What a Rock Band Can Teach Businesses About Social Networks

Shortly before Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference started last Wednesday, the San Francisco Fire Department had locked the doors to Moscone Center to let the crush of bodies entering it disperse before letting in more attendees. I thought, are you kidding me?

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Why Force.com Is Important To Cloud Computing

Zoho is making another move to serve as the IT department for the small business market. Its latest offering is a service for staffing agencies and human resources to automate the process for hiring people.

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Zoho Makes Another Move to be the IT of the Small Business Market

During Dreamforce, we ran a little locally-produced signage application that displayed upcoming announcements, as well as the next set of sessions in the Force.com Zone . Except, it had a bug – it seemed to be showing the sessions for the following day.

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Every Site has a Guest User with its own Time Zone

Roambi announced a pro version of its iPhone application this week that syncs with Salesforce.com and other cloud-based services or on-premsie sales environments.

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An iPhone Visualization App That Syncs with the Cloud