I have been working on updating the Force.com for Facebook Toolkit to take advantage of the new protocols and features of the Facebook Graph API. The primary difference is the use of JSON objects vs.
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Authorizing Force.com and the Facebook Social Graph
Xactly , a software company for management of sales performance and compensation, has raised $7.5 million in a fifth round of funding. The San Jose, Calif.-based company is looking to raise a total of $12.5 million, according to a filing with the SEC . In June, Xactly launched Xactly Express, a product that allows employees to communicate in real-time, on Salesforce.com’s ChatterExchange platform
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Sales compensation manager Xactly raises $7.5M more
I was ridiculously excited when I discovered Security.Force.Com at Dreamforce 2009.
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Security.Force.Com is Your App’s Best Friend.
Great user experience takes time, but the rewards are worth it. Examples like TiVo, Google Maps, Mint.com and iPhone show the impact a great user experience can have on user adoption and how influential it can be to the industry.
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If you build it, will they come?
Unsurprisingly, Salesforce is seeing rapid adoption of its social collaboration platform Chatter among its existing customers after launching to the public last week. In its first week of general availability, Chatter has been integrated by 10,000 of Salesforce’s 77,300 existing customers, or 13 percent of Salesforce’s customer base
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Salesforce Chatterizes 10,000 Of Its Customers First Week After Public Launch
In the past few weeks, we’ve touched on a few examples of how events within applications are surfaced in activity streams. But it’s not just applications that can communicate. A developer from Portland, Or.
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How to Connect an Office Building to an Activity Stream
Salesforce.com , the world’s leading SaaS vendor, is suing Microsoft for patent infringement, Business Week reported today. As we’ve reported , Microsoft filed suit against Salesforce.com for patent infringement last month
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Salesforce.com Countersuing Microsoft for Patent Infringement
It is the end of a busy week here in the developer marketing group.
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Leverage the Cloud, you make it to the sky, and then you can reach the stars!
Today’s roundtable was organized in collaboration with TiE Delhi, and had a special emphasis on the online education sector with three out of the five entrepreneurs presenting education businesses. Ankur Mehra and his associate Aditya started off by introducing GuruVantage . Ankur and Aditya have determined that training managers at various Indian companies need help with vetting the quality, methodology and infrastructures of various training institutes, training vendors and such
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Strategy Roundtable: Online Education Startups
Just a heads up that I’ve put a “State of the Labs” post over on the AppExchange blog if you’d like more detail about what I’ve been up to in the last few months. You can ask me about any of those items and more at Cloudforce2010 next week. Also, if you want your 15 minutes seconds of fame, track me down for a special surprise.
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Force.com Labs: State of the Labs
