The read/write enterprise isn’t just about using social media in the enterprise – increasingly, it’s about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done instead of relying on decrees from on high about what sorts of technology to use.
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5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT
Cloudforce London is about half way over with the lunch rush subsiding as hungry conference goers start eagerly filling the seats for the breakout sessions. Jon and I grabbed some lunch under the London Eye before heading back into the expo floor.
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Cloudforce London update 1
As Salesforce’s foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter , gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform. And as the enterprise increasingly relies upon mobile devices for connectivity; there is a strong demand for native mobile use of Chatter. Today, Salesforce is taking Chatter to mobile phones; unveiling Chatter Mobile apps for the iPad, iPhone, Google Android and BlackBerry devices
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Salesforce Takes Chatter Mobile With iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps
“Why are you using Google instead of the App Store?” If that question doesn’t immediately make sense to you, don’t feel bad: it took some explaining for me as well. An iPad-using colleague of mine heard that question the other day, from someone who was urging him to search the App Store—not the great big unfocused Web—for the answer to a question. Heck of an idea
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You Should Write the App for That
Yammer, originally launched as a “ Twitter for businesses ,” will soon expand its services into a full-on social network like Facebook — built to help streamline workplaces and network business professionals. Along with a redesign to be more social, the Yammer developers are also providing access to developers in order to attract third-party apps.
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Yammer 2.0: A Facebook for the Warren Buffett set
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.
Links from this post: 10 Simple & Useful Reports – http://labs.force.com/10simple Sales History Advanced Dashboards – http://labs.force.com/SalesHistoryYT LinkForce – http://labs.force.com/linkforce Action Plans Custom Objects – http://labs.force.com/apcustom AppExchange Search for Firefox – http://labs.force.com/searchff Opportunity Accountability – http://labs.force.com/oa Cloud Swarm – http://labs.force.com/swarm Chatter News Alerts – http://labs.force.com/news Update #1 – http://labs.force.com/update1
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Force.com Labs Update #2 – 30 August 2010
Terms that come to describe any new technology can be vague and annoying, especially when marketers start adding a bit of spin. So we decided to ask for your feedback to see what you think are the worst terms out there in the world of the cloud
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Weekly Poll: What Are The Top 5 Worst Terms in the World of the Cloud?
I wanted to remind you that we have the first in our series of VMforce webinars beginning this Thursday. The first webinar will take a slightly different angle from many of our previous webinars and will focusing on answering the question “I am a Force.com developer, why should I be interested in VMforce?
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VMforce webinar this Thursday – Intro to Spring
You probably know the drill by now, but if not it goes something like this. Every few months, new features are added to the Force.com platform. Every time we make such a release, you get a bunch of new stuff that you as a developer can use in your apps
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Winter ’11 Release – Learn all about it
