The other day I posted a blog entry demoing some HTML5 touch apps I have been working on. Within that post I mentioned that I had to ‘roll my own’ REST implementation (just as others out in the community have done)
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REST Api sneak peak!
Travel startup TripIt continues to expand its service for business travelers (and the ways it makes money from those services) with tonight’s launch of a new package called TripIt for Business . The San Francisco-based company aggregates all of a user’s travel information into a single itinerary, so they can find the information they need in one place. As you can guess from the name, the site’s new service adds features aimed at companies, in particular smaller organizations that don’t have their own travel program.
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TripIt unveils travel tool for businesses
With all the interest around geo-intelligent devices, html5 , touch aware applications, and the mobile social web I have been taking some time to look into a few popular frameworks and how I can make some cool force.com powered mobile apps.
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Got HTML5, touch, geo-aware Force.com apps? I say so!
Mark Angelino , formerly vice president at IBM and President at Sprint, was responsible for the adoption of Salesforce’s sales, call center and platform services in North America from May 2009 until last month.
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Cloud Wars: HP Poaches Salesforce Executive Mark Angelino
Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partners Conference today that it will launch a CRM SaaS service and an app marketplace as parts of CRM 2011, itself a part of Microsoft Dynamics . CRM 2011, formerly codenamed CRM5, will be available for beta testing in September, starting with the online CRM service and Dynamics Marketplace. The announcement comes as Microsoft is embroiled in a patent battle with CRM competitor Salesforce.com , which has been offering a CRM SaaS and app marketplace for years.
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Echoing Salesforce.com, Microsoft Announces CRM SaaS and App Marketplace
A familiar character has entered the stage for Salesforce.com. Attorney David Boies is bringing his celebrated fame back again to take on Microsoft, the company he defeated ten years ago in the U.S. Justice Department’s landmark anti-trust case against the software giant.
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David Boies Beat Microsoft Once – Can He Do it Again For Salesforce.com?
The latest batch of Chatter Labs apps include two packages that target developers. Both include extendable classes that let you build your own functionality on the platform quickly and easily using the work the app developers have already done. In this first video, Herman Kwong shows you how to implement “Like” functionality using his Chatter Shelf, Stars and Actions Framework.
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Two Extendable Chatter Labs Apps You Should Check Out
Last night at the hackathon event at Cloudforce 2010 in San Jose we announced the winners of our Chatter Developer Challenge. The community voting was one factor in an incredibly difficult decision made by the judges, and in the end they had a very difficult time coming to a decision due to the extremely high quality of the entries, opting to award more placings than originally planned
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Chatter Developer Challenge Winners, congratulations!
It is a little past 6pm in San Jose, the Developer Conference has moved into my favorite part of the day: the Hackathon. The vibe is mellow, the energy is high, and the prizes are big
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Developer Day, Hackathon, and Session Presentations now available
When Chatter goes live today, every Force.com app has the option of becoming social. Has any development platform, ever before, done so much for so many at so little cost?
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