By Luke Skywalker in
Development
Mar
2
The e-book hype reached its apex just before the holiday season. Now seems like a good time to take a closer look at the e-book market, especially given that this business is heading for another disruption once Apple’s iPad launches.
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E-Books: After the Hype and Before the iPad
By Luke Skywalker in
Development,
Strategy
Mar
1
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
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Feb
26
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?
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Development
Feb
24
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
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Development
Feb
23
I remember when I first started programming in Java many years ago. I used to walk the isles of my local bookstore (remember those brick and mortar things we all used to visit?). The shelves were filled with books on C, a few smatterings of web design, and of course, the trusty O’Reilly In a Nutshell books; but alas, there were no Java books.
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Development with the Force.com Platform
By Luke Skywalker in
Architecture,
Design,
General,
Strategy
Feb
17
Today, Saleforce takes the wraps off Chatter pilot program. After several months of testing with select customers, it is going into production for this group. We reviewed Chatter with SalesForce’s VP of Corporate Strategy, Bruce Francis and SVP Product Marketing, Kraig Swensrud to find out what all the excitement was about
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Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real Time Enterprise Tools
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Strategy
Feb
3
2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings , and even launched their own take on realtime enterprise social networking and collaboration, Chatter
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Salesforce Simplifies Creation Of Business Applications With Visual Process Manager
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Development,
Strategy
Feb
2
Salesforce.com is broadening the range of its Force.com cloud development platform with a new visual tool set for designing business processes, the company announced Wednesday.
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Salesforce.Com Unveils Business Process Tools
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
Jan
29
Spring ‘10 is just around the corner, with many great new features . One of the Apex Code enhancements which caught my attention was the limits on the number of items a collection can hold has been removed
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Apex Code Enhancements and Collections best practices
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
Jan
29
Apisphere , provider of a platform that powers mobile applications to serve content based on where you are geographically, has raised $4.58 million in equity, according to a filing with the SEC . Based in Redwood City, the company provides a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook and for Salesforce.com’s customer relations management system.
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Apisphere channels $4.6M to serve location-based mobile apps