We are busily putting the final touches to a revamped Facebook toolkit which will be available shortly.

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Facebook Toolkit 2 coming soon to a Code Share near you!

I’ve been poring over the (early access) release notes for the upcoming Winter ’11 release , and notice that the new look and feel (the Cloud User Interface, as some folk refer to it), has been extended to cover the admin screens as well. I like it.

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Nice consistent Winter ’11 user interface coming up

Yesterday Josh Long , Developer Advocate for SpringSource , and myself conducted a webinar titled Intro to Spring for Force.com Developers.

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VMforce: Intro to Spring for Force.com Developers Recording, Code and Slides now available

The title of this post was the title of my presentation on cloud opportunity for the systems integrator and ISV—and the necessity of embracing it, not ignoring and certainly not denying it—at the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit conference in Dallas, early in June of this year.

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Cloud Partner Ecosystems: Opportunity and Necessity

Wow doesn’t the time fly. It is already the middle of August and we have another Developer Meetup in the San Mateo Salesforce.com offices on August 25th. This meetup should be extra fun, not only is our very own Dana ” I make the Discussion Boards, registrations, and just about everything else work right so you don’t have to! ” Le presenting the Introduction to Force.com session (with yours truly offering colorful commentary – and if you have heard me speak, colorful is like calling MS DOS a graphical OS), but we also have Markus Spohn, Product Management Director, and the head of the team responsible for bringing you the awesome Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com presenting in the advanced track.  Both sessions will include plenty of hands on labs, pizza, and lots of great conversation

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Get hands on with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com @ this months Developer Meetup

On Thursday, August 19 we’re hosting a webinar that will introduce new users to the type of apps that can be built on Force.com and then show you how to get started building your own first app. While this webinar is being aimed at Force.com Free Edition users, it is appropriate for anyone who is new to the platform and interested in learning about development possibilities, where to find resources, and getting hints and tips.

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New to Force.com? Attend an introductory webinar.

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!

Jack Gold is the founder and principal analyst at IT analyst firm J.Gold Associates. RIM has been feeling the heat in the smartphone business, along with everyone else who is not iPhone or Android powered. Indeed, Android has even been pressuring Apple’s success in the marketplace with new and attractive smartphones from HTC, Motorola, Samsung and others

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RIM’s secret plan to get BlackBerry out of the smartphone jam

Maritz explains how CIOs can create one giant computer to go beyond CapEx to OpEx reductions and fund new high-value applications.

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Global CIO: VMware CEO On Future Of Virtualization: Exclusive Interview

Richard MacManus’ story on how the Internet is running out of addresses was our top post this week. (Isn’t Al Gore responsible for making more?) We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: There are at least 100 things you can do with RFID on the Internet of Things ; augmented reality gets silky smooth; and Facebook introduces a real-time Tornado.

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Weekly Wrap-up: No More IP Addresses, 70,000 Blogs Shut Down, Bye-Bye Nexus One, And More…