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Knowledge@Wharton interview with Scott Guthrie on everything

Kendall Whitehouse has a really fantastic interview up with Scott Guthrie, the man helping to lead Microsoft's charge into rich Internet applications. The interview covers a ton of ground including Microsoft's plan to make money off of Silverlight and Scott Guthrie's thoughts on AIR. Kendall has been following the space...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Knowledge@Wharton, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Kendall Whitehouse, Kendall, Scott, Flash, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Web Site Development, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-19

How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform

This is Part 2 of my interview with Kendall Collins, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com. In Part 1, we spoke about version 20 of salesforce.com (called Summer '06) and discussed how AppExchange overlaps with the Web Office. In the second and final part of the interview, we explore how salesforce...

Tags: Web Office, Web, Salesforce.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-01

Interview with salesforce.com pt 1: AppExchange and the Web Office

Update: Part two of the interview is now available, entitled How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform. This week I spoke to Kendall Collins, vice president of marketing at Salesforce.com, about the latest "Summer '06" release of salesforce.com. But the most interesting topic of...

Tags: Kendall, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Salesforce.com Inc., Web

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Additional Resources

Air Force seeks part-time cyberwarriors

Air Force Cyber Command is looking to Silicon Valley for part-time help in its fight against cyberattack, the Christian Science Monitor reports. For example, the 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron, an Air National Guard unit in Washington State, has tapped into...

Tags: Air Force, Air Force Cyber Command, Air National Guard, Hacking, Quality, Workforce Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Business Operations, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Knowledge@Wharton interview with Kevin Lynch

Kendall Whitehouse has an interview up with Kevin Lynch at Knowledge@Wharton in which he discusses everything from Adobe AIR to the Open Screen Project. It's one of the better interviews I've seen and gets into a lot of aspects of Adobe's strategy around RIAs. They also talk about Kevin's new...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR, Knowledge@Wharton, Kendall Whitehouse, Desktop Application, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-29

A look back at MIX 2008

Alistair Croll has a post up about his impressions of MIX and talks a bit about Microsoft's "three front war". In general, it's a pretty good post that encompasses everything Microsoft is doing. And I think it's very interesting just how deeply the RIA space is running through Microsoft. It's...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Video, Microsoft Corp., Alistair Croll, MIX, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Salesforce.com Winter '08 edition goes live

Salesforce.com Winter '08 edition goes liveQuestion: are these updates forced on users?My guess is that yes, since salesforce.com is a service, they update the software on their servers and all users then are using the new updated versions.So what happens when one of these updates breaks something the user relies...

Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Salesforce.com Winter '08 edition goes live

Salesforce Winter '08 edition of the Force.com platform is now live, as well as two new applications-- Salesforce Content and Salesforce Ideas (previously covered here when the software was rolled out at Dreamforce 07). As usual, salesforce.com is not shy about jabbing at rivals. "Competitors seem stagnant...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Photos: A look inside the green, high-tech Genzyme Center

This platinum-level, LEED-certified green building uses building automation for daylighting, fresh air and to lower energy costs.Biotech company Genzyme went green when it built its corporate headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Called Genzyme Center, the 4-year-old building is a Platinum-level LEED-certified green building, the highest level possible. (LEED stands for Leadership...

Tags: That', photograph, atrium, building', Genzyme Corp., mirror, daylight, motor, hawk, sensor, roof, ceiling, foe, coal, tile, wind, burst, sunlight, Cambridge, automation, certification, collaboration, Germany, wall, leadership, U.S., environment, computer, network

Image galleries 2007-08-22

Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld

The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat – skipped out on LinuxWorld again.It's no surprise. Torvalds, the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, rarely delivers keynotes or makes public appearances at conferences. His right-hand man, the No. 2 kernel maintainer...

Tags: Linux, LinuxWorld, Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service

Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex Code available in general release next month, completing its transition from an on demand CRM application platform to a more generalized on demand software development platform.In fact, with the forthcoming Summer ‘07 release, salesforce.com now describes itself as a the "world's platform-as-a-service," complete with...

Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Salesforce.com and Google team up on AdWords--that's all

The salesforce.com and Google partnership turned out to be not a grand alliance or acquisition pitting the two companies against Microsoft, but a refinement of the AdWords campaign management software that salesforce.com acquired from Keiden Corp. in 2006. Salesforce.com can sell more CRM subscriptions and Google can increase its...

Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Google, E-commerce

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Watch your future baby in 3-D

If researchers from Duke University can successfully install an updated version of a new image-viewing software found on clinical ultrasound scanners, it soon could be possible to see developing fetuses in the womb in living 3-D movies. These 3-D ultrasound imaging systems dont need any additional hardware, except special goggles....

Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-04-28

Salesforce.com snags Koral's Web 2.0 content management service

Salesforce.com has taken another drink from its AppExchange marketplace pool, acquiring nine-person startup Koral and its on demand content management service. Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing for salesforce.com, described the new offering, dubbed Salesforce Content, as the new killer application.Koral may not be a so-called killer app...

Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Dead-Finger Tech: Manuel takes his Blackberry Pearl everywhere, but would leave Microsoft if he could

OK, so it has been a little while since Ive done one of my favorite types of interviews -- what I call a Dead-Finger Technology or DFT interview. In case you havent seen the other DFT interviews, this where I get someone (sometimes its someone I know, other times, just...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Vista, Video, Telephony, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dead Finger Tech

Blog posts 2007-03-30

The socialization of CRM

The Web is a funny old place, sometimes. Seven years after it first launched, on-demand vendor Salesforce.com has finally added customer collaboration into its CRM package — albeit only on limited release to start off with. How has it taken so long after the advent of the Web for vendors...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, CRM, Appspace, Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce.coms Spring 07, Agillion, collaboration, Web

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Are on-demand users safe from the DST debacle?

Unfortunately, on-demand users may also be affected by todays early switch to daylight saving time — although some are safer than others, it seems. At least they dont have to run around patching servers — thankfully, thats the vendors problem. But not all vendors can be relied on to do...

Tags: DST Update, on-demand, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-11

Wall Street Journal: Flash is coming to the iPhone

Kendall Whitehouse of the Wharton School pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal article today that talked about the lack of adoption by mobile users in browsing the web (the link is behind the Wall Street Journal pay vault but its titled Browsing Barriers: Consumers can use...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, iPhone, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Vista: Where are the killer apps?

Vista: Where are the killer apps?What would be great is...An application that printed "$200 Off Vista" Coupons.Then Vista might actually sell well!Will I have choice?I mean if I go out and buy New PC, something I'll need to do in the next year will I be able to choose XP...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Salesforce.com Inc., VISTA IS

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

Vista: Where are the killer apps?

If youve seen any Windows Vista demos over the past year, youve probably seen Microsoft show off a handful of Vista-customized applications, like The New York Times Reader, North Faces kiosk application, and iBloks multimedia-sharing wares. But where are the rest of the Vista killer...

Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Internet Explorer, App Compatibility, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-29