"Cloud of Clouds" - our 2009 predictions.
In 2008, we saw the early seeds of a "cloud of clouds" emerging. It started in April with Salesforce and Google announcing integration between Google Apps and Salesforce to bridge the gap between Google's productivity applications and Salesforce. Later in the year, at Dreamforce, Salesforce expanded the idea of a "cloud of clouds" by announcing integrations with Facebook (for social graph information) and with Amazon (for raw computing infrastructure). Salesforce ended the year with a bang, by announcing Force.com for Google App Engine.
Best Thing about the Salesforce-Google Toolkit
As you probably know, Salesforce announced the Google Data API Toolkit on Monday. The new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs provides a free and open-source set of tools and services that developers can use to take advantage of Google Data APIs...
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Does your sales team ignore the majority of leads marketing passes on? Marketers must develop a more intimate understanding of their target customer and the market that customer serves to generate qualified buyers that Sales won’t...
Read more about The 6 Principles of Deliberate Marketing...Answers to the salesforce.com - Google Rumors
We thought we would settle all the salesforce.com / Google rumors that are floating around. The news is not an acquisition, but rather that Appirio is is now the first partner to be certified as both a salesforce.com consulting and...
Read more about Answers to the salesforce.com - Google Rumors...Salesforce.com Silicon Valley City Tour
I had a chance to participate on a panel at the salesforce.com city tour in Santa Clara last week. I would say there were roughly 500 people in the audience, and it was fun for me to present as a salesforce customer. I was on the panel with Doug...
Read more about Salesforce.com Silicon Valley City Tour...SOA and Cloud Computing on the Rise of Gartner Hyp
ReadWriteWeb recently posted an interesting piece on a research showing that the Fastest Growing US Companies are Rapidly Adopting Social Media. What interested me the most was the Gartner Hype Curve for Emerging Technologies 2008 that was presented...
Read more about SOA and Cloud Computing on the Rise of Gartner Hype Curve...Google Docs Guide: How to do Stuff with Google Doc
Google Docs is like an online version of Microsoft Office where you can create and upload documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, then share them with anyone you choose. This tutorial and guide will help you get more out of Google...
Read more about Google Docs Guide: How to do Stuff with Google Docs...An Interview with author and MX Speaker Scott Ber
I recently had a chance to speak with Scott Berkun — designer, author, contrarian and MX 2009 conference speaker about something that has interested me for a long time, but we don’t generally talk about in the design community: failure. We build...
Read more about An Interview with author and MX Speaker Scott Berkun...APIs in the Arab Web
Technology blogger Mohamed Marwen Meddah wrote an interesting post on his StartUpArabia site: “The Importance of Having An API for Arab Startups”. Mohamed notes that, thus far, relatively few Arab online startups have opened up their platforms...
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