Salesforce.com Integrates with Google Apps
Salesforce.com has added a toolkit to its Force.com platform today that allows its partners and developers to access Google’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The toolkit, which lets programmers connect their applications or data into Google Apps and other Google services, strengthens the already tight relationship between the two vendors and fuels speculation that Google could acquire Salesforce.com in the future, analysts say.
Digg Finally Drops the DiggBar and Applies a 301 R
Digg short URLs now do a 301 permanent redirect (instead of rel=canonical) thus passing on all the PageRank and search engine juice to the publisher's...
Read more about Digg Finally Drops the DiggBar and Applies a 301 Redirect...Managing Design Projects! An Event for Project Man
There are lots of great events for designers, we even host a handful of them, but what about events for folks that are often behind the scenes managing the projects or programs, and products? The project management team here at Adaptive Path...
Read more about Managing Design Projects! An Event for Project Managers...Force.com for Google App Engine
Salesforce.com made two fantastic announcements today at their CloudForce event in New York. The first is Force.com for Google App Engine (demonstrated on stage by Marc Benioff and our own Narinder Singh using an extension of our work with...
Read more about Force.com for Google App Engine...Now that’s a Big PaaS Market
Prominent industry observers such as Dion Hinchcliffe, Phil Wainewright, and McKinsey have been busy lately discussing the rapidly evolving “platform as a service” offerings from companies such as salesforce.com, Amazon, and Google. One frequently...
Read more about Now that’s a Big PaaS Market...Say Goodbye to Done
I found this recent paper published by the Nokia Research Center (via Putting People First) an extremely interesting read. It echoes and builds on some thoughts I’ve been having recently about mobile user experience and interaction design....
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What IT sector goes up in an economic down turn? IDC answers the question with this report, Software as a Service Market Will Expand Rather than Contract Despite the Economic Crisis, IDC Finds. Cloud Computing would have grown in a good economic...
Read more about The Cloud Will Grow in 2009 - IDC...Employees asked to write self-appraisals?
I used to think that asking employees to create self-appraisals was a great idea. I used to encourage organizations to make self-appraisal a regular component of their performance management processes. But in the last few years, I’ve changed my...
Read more about Employees asked to write self-appraisals?...Chav-gate
In a recent post on CRM and social networking, I suggested that the growth of forums, blogs, wiki’s etc. will mean companies have to pay greater attention to the customer experience, because never before have customers had as much scope to broadcast...
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