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Archives for July 2008
Appirio Now Backed by Sequoia Capital
Chris Barbin has released another blog post, explaining that Appirio is now backed by Sequoia Capital. Pretty neat, huh? This is a serious company with some seriously good research, apparently. So their backing of Appirio means that Appirio is in some really good company. Appirio’s website lists Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital on its Board of Directors and writes that “Appirio is privately held, with funding from Sequoia Capital, salesforce.com, and a select group of angel investors.” Congratulations, Appirio, on securing some high quality (and, I hope, high value) funding. I know that this will cement your place amongst the top product companies in the sfdcverse, and will enable you to vault to the top in the pure-implementation rankings as well.
Google Releases Data APIs Java Client Eclipse Plug-in
Google just released its Google Data APIs Java Client Eclipse Plug-in, which seems to have great possibilities for developing in Google. Combined with the Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs, it could go even further.
Salesforce.com Partner Infighting?
Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio, recently wrote a superb article on Microsoft’s pathetic attempt at trying to appear that it was entering the SaaS market with it’s Dynamics CRM package. … Note Chris’s choice of an example of a company that (unwisely, apparently as far as Chris thinks) uses Microsoft’s veiled on-premise solution: Astadia Consulting … Does this signal some bad blood?
Salesforce Mobile for iPhone is Ready!
Jon Mountjoy posted a report that the AppStore for iPhone 2.0 software is available. Makes our mouths water even more for that iPhone 3G.
WordPress, Akismet, and Web-to-Salesforce
Scott Hemmeter posted a blog entry about using Akismet and PHP to check Web-to-Lead submissions for spam. We are going to start an experiment using Akismet in the following scenarios:
-Web-to-Lead with Google AdWords enabled
-Web-to-Case
AppExchange Makeover
Looks like Salesforce has changed its user-interface again. Remember the Apps menu with the AppExchange link that opened the AppExchange in a new tab? That’s been changed.
Congrats to Dream Factory
DreamFactory was written up in a post on Gigaom.com. The article did a great job stressing that their products (specifically DreamTeam) can run on many platforms. That’s because DreamFactory has written their own layer that can be placed on almost any platform with a bit of coding. It’s almost like DreamFactory came up with OpenSocial […]
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