This is a big shout to Tim Inman for building a micro-grant solution on Force.com. As some of you may remember, Tim Inman was a runner-up in one our developer challenges and now he has at it again participating in PayPal X Dev Challenge. In a nutshell, the idea is that…
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A micro-grant solution built on Force.com
Let me get this out of the way: I love apps. I love apps that serve big purposes and I love apps that serve extremely small niches.
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There’s an Evangelist for That
Let me get this out of the way: I love apps. I love apps that serve big purposes and I love apps that serve extremely small niches
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There’s an Evangelist for That
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.
It’s rare when you will see a post in this blog about Saas and its place in the financial markets.
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SaaS Report: Is Salesforce.com Over or Under Valued?
This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com . I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants to hire? Why couldn’t we just compute in the Internet, or the cloud, and get away from the data center and all its complexity
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The Facebook Imperative
If you are a Mac user you have probably already discovered Quicksilver , and its amazing ability to reduce the time taken to perform just about any task. Noticed a tweet today that Simon Fell recently created a Quicksilver plugin that lets you search Salesforce, and upload a document in a few keystrokes. If you are a Quicksilver user, go grab the plugin now, and shave more time off your day which you can devote to creating cool Force.com apps
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Quicksilver plugin for Salesforce
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
People in the industry debate it, study it and even attend conferences on it. At saleforce.com , we are realizing it: Real-time enterprise collaboration.
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