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Jive Battles the Social Frankenstein with New HTML5 Mobile Apps

Luke Skywalker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:01:00 +0000

Jive Software made three announcements at JiveWorld today: 1) Over 50 developers have committed to developing applications for the forthcoming Jive Apps Market. 2) The release of Jive Social Media Engagement 4.5 3) The release of Jive Mobile 4.5. The products – along with Jive’s flagship SBS product – work together to combat what Jive staff call the Social Frankenstein – the monster enterprises end up with when they try to stitch togethers disparate wikis, blogs, external social networking accounts, and other tools.

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New Logistics: Web-Based Tools for International Marketing

Luke Skywalker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:35:00 +0000

While the logistics of moving goods and information around the globe is rapidly changing, marketing to international audiences, for the most part, is little different from marketing domestically. Abe Burmeister, co-founder of apparel company Outlier Tailored says, “We don’t really make any distinction between local and international. It’s all the World Wide Web and we sell all over the world.

Force.com Secure Cloud Development – An Update

Luke Skywalker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:08:36 +0000

It’s been a couple months since we made the first iteration of Force.com Secure Cloud Development resources available. Since that time we’ve made several improvements, including adding new security (and code quality) checks to our Force.com Source Scanner and several updates to the Force.com ESAPI library based on requests from the community. The resources have gotten many kudos, including my favorite from @jeffdonthemic “I *heart* the security scanner.

Creating a Trial for your App on AppExchange

Luke Skywalker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:46:29 +0000

Imagine if Apple could provision an iPad together with a pre-configured application so that you could get a feel for whether you wanted to buy that app or not…wouldn’t that be a great way to sell an app?

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Chicago Developer Meetup Wednesday Evening — Don’t Miss it!

Luke Skywalker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:12:24 +0000

T eam DFC is in the Windy City! A few of us from the Developer Force team are in town to do a few events, including a free Developer Meetup on Wednesday starting at 6:00 PM in downtown Chicago. Stop on by to learn about Force.com if you are new to our cloud platform. If you’re already familiar with the platform, we’ll have a second track dedicated to developing with the Salesforce Chatter collaboration technology

RightNow: Real-Time Customer Support Through Corporate Facebook Pages

Luke Skywalker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:30:30 +0000

The drive to turn customer support into a social engines is playing out with RightNow , a publicly traded SaaS provider that is launching a robust Facebook platform for support agents to respond in real-time to Facebook wall posts and other comments. RightNow CX for Facebook gives call center operations a direct way to reply to customer service issues that surface on a Facebook fan page. The service also allows customers to pose questions, help other customers or access information in a self-service manner

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DEMO: CloudBasic makes building business cloud applications easy

Luke Skywalker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:59:58 +0000

CloudBasic is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective

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VMforce webinar 2 recording now available

Luke Skywalker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:09:38 +0000

Last week Jesper Joergensen and I presented the second webinar in the VMforce series. This webinar, titled Cloud Computing for Java Developers, was intended to give a deeper dive into what is possible on VMforce, and in particular, focusing on the notion of bringing the cloud to Java Developers. During the webinar, we demo’ed some pretty cool usage of the JPA adapter to inject objects into Force.com, connect to the Force.com database, and also see how validation rules can be enforced consistently regardless of whether you are accessing the data via a browser, or in our case, a Spring app

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Sharing and Security – Best Practices

Luke Skywalker — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:20:04 +0000

As an application developer, we highly recommend that you declare all your Apex controllers “with sharing” in order to ensure that you’re respecting the sharing rules configured by an org administrator. However, there are legitimate use cases where a controller must run in system context (without sharing). You should provide an org administrator the ability to explicitly approve such behavior to avoid leakage of data to unauthorized users.

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A Fail Whale For the Rest of Us: Social.DownorNot.com

Luke Skywalker — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:15:48 +0000

Netherlands-based website monitoring company WatchMouse has created a public website dedicated to measuring performance at social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Digg, Xanga and Flickr. WatchMouse also release uptime statistics for the top 20 social sites for the month of August. The leaders were Orkut, which had no downtime, Flickr with just four minutes of downtime, Del.icio.us with 12 minutes of downtime and the gaming site hi5 with 32 minutes of downtime

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