“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
VMware is moving up the stack with an ambitious plan to offer an IT services environment that connects the end points between the data center and the cloud.
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VMware Makes Its Move Up the Stack – Microsoft in its Sights
One of the big challenges facing IT managers is the proliferation of non-Windows PC devices in the workplace, said VMware chief executive Paul Maritz.
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VMware outlines strategy for iPad-friendly 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?
The Winter ’11 release is just around the corner (Have you signed up for the webinar yet?) and one of the most requested features from the developer community is here: Visualforce Components for Salesforce Chatter. Create your Visualforce page, drop a component on the page, and you have your feeds, followers, and who you are following show up with a single line of code. The rest—the creativity—is up to you! Two usage notes to keep in mind when using the new Chatter components: 1
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Visualforce Components for Salesforce Chatter here in Winter 11!
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
One of the most popular Force.com Labs apps over the last few months is ” Find Nearby Accounts “. On Friday, we released a great update that improves the user experience and app performance while adding features
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Updated App: Find Nearby Accounts, Contacts and Leads
We’re always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 7 Aug. 2010
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
