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- The Mother of all Marketing Shticks
- Marc Benioff continues to flesh out his vision of on-demand computing. It's easy to mistake Marc's showmanship for hype, but salesforce's fundamental value proposition continues to become reality. From its humble beginnings as "The Death of Software" and Benioff's proclamation of harnessing the power of Web services, salesforce.com has grown...
- Tags: Marc
- Blog posts 2006-01-17
- SOS - Salesforce's Operating System
- Midway through the demos at Salesforce.com's lunch event the other day, I noticed an interesting trend. As Dan Farber illustrates in his joust with Marc Benioff and affiliated post, Marc's "death of software" logo--the red circle and line through the word "software"-- is growing tattered at the seams. It still...
- Tags: Marc, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-04-15
- Click Click Click
- Comcast broadband went south today, so I'm parked at the Canvas in the Sunset. Just as I was about to leave after three hours of tanking up on lattes, 'casts, and Skype, Marc Canter walks in for a meeting with the Laslo team. Marc is headed for SWSX, ETech, and...
- Tags: Marc
- Blog posts 2005-03-10
- Zero Sum Games
- Susan Mernit and Marc Canter triangulate on Ross Mayfield's musings on personalization versus attention. It took me quite a few paragraphs to crack the Ross code--social networking good, automation bad. Marc's pushback was more concise, and Susan's more nuanced. Together the three posts illustrate why attention AND human filtering are...
- Tags: Marc
- Blog posts 2005-02-13
- Marc's Voice: OK - I'm confused
- Marc's Voice: OK - I'm confusedSeems to work in Safari, but then you don't have a Mac, do you Marc...
- Tags: Marc, Voice
- Blog posts 2004-11-01
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- Will economic downturn push companies into the cloud? [video]
- At the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable in Mountain View, Calif., Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, explains why he thinks Microsoft's entry into the business will bring validation to the cloud. Many CTOs, he says, still need to be convinced that using software as a service will save them money and...
- Tags: Video, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Will economic downturn push companies into the cloud?
- At the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable in Mountain View, Calif., Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, explains why he thinks Microsoft's entry into the business will bring validation to the cloud. Many CTOs, he says, still need to be convinced that using software as a service will save them money and...
- Tags: Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Salesforce, cloud computing, SaaS, Benioff, Microsoft, TechCrunch, platforms
- Videos 2009-03-02
- Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback
- Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings
- Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...
- Tags: Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Latest 'The Group' podcast delves into Google Android, Yahoo's China syndrome, and Facebook gestures (again)
- Steve Gillmor's The Gang debuts its second coming for the second time. There's always good tibits and chunky nuggets in these roundtable gab-fests. As usual the topics straddle places more weight on the Web 2.0 side than the IT side, but I'm working on it. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Podcast, Yahoo! Inc., Steve, Web 2.0, Podcasts, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Google forays into the heart of social networking
- TechCrunch is reporting that November 5 Google, in another fit of competitive expansion (check out Google's funding of a trans-Pacific undersea multi-terabit cable), plans to lift the veil on its answer to Facebook. It was foretold in the 'Tech Talk' video presentation by Google’s Ben Darnell to new Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, TechCrunch, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Heading to Gnomedex
- I'm heading up to Seattle for Gnomedex which kicks off tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch of my friends and making some new ones too. There should be a lot to blog about from this event which Chris and Ponzi Pirillo, the organizers, have dubbed the Blogosphere's...
- Tags: Event, Marc Orchant
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Gillmor vies for attention with 'Bad Sinatra'
- My friend Steve Gillmor buries the Gillmor Gang and resurfaces with "Bad Sinatra," his own version of Silicon Valley cinema verite, in which I play myself, accompanied by other cast members, including Doc Searls, Mike Arrington, Marc Benioff and Robert Scoble. "Bad Sinatra" is vintage Gillmor, with debate, argument, randomness,...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Since when should effective data management and regulatory compliance be mutually exclusive?
- If you have not yet taken Google Apps for your Domain out for a test drive, c|net's Rafe Needleman has an introductory video and review available: Google wants to get inside your small business. Like many who have examined this dipping of the G-toe into business data management,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Blog posts 2006-09-05
- Digg paths to profitability and social networking
- Speaking at the Building Blocks conference in San Jose today, Digg founder and chief architect Kevin Rose described his site as a "crazy madhouse of news flying around, 100 percent user powered." The Digg madhouse isn't yet a crazy quilt of ads aimed at increasing revenue, he noted when asked...
- Tags: Digg, Kevin Rose
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- John Edwards meets the Gnomedexers
- Right after Dave Dederer of the band, The Presidents of the United States of America, former Senator John Edwards, once candidate for vice president of the United States, addresses the crowd at Gnomedex. I am curious to see how this group of largely libertarian folks who believe that...
- Tags: Edwards
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- Gnomedex: Bloggers, Senator Edwards convene in Seattle
- On Friday and Saturday I'll be in Seattle at Gnomedex, which is hosted by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame. Speakers discussion leaders at the event include many of the usual suspects from the blogosphere--Dave Winer, Marc Canter, Mike Arrington, Steve Rubel, Steve Gillmor, Susan Mernit, Halley Suitt, Robert Scoble and...
- Tags: Edwards
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- BloggerCon: Standards matters
- Niall Kennedy led a BloggerCon discussion on standards for users, which he described as follows on his site: In the online world we rely on a few standards to make life easy for users. The W3C activity around HTML provides a common base for implementors and authors. We still have...
- Tags: standards
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Benioff floats the 'Business Web'
- Marc Benioff outlined that latest info on the Winter '06 platform of salesforce.com and talked it up as the "Business Web"--on demand, software-as-a-service mixed with Web 2.0. Instead of "no software," the Business Web is now the theme, which at least shows some maturing in the marketing.Basically, what was announced...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Business-web, Business Web
- Blog posts 2006-01-17
- Ray Lane visits the Gillmor Gang
- Ray Lane was the guest on this week's Gillmor Gang, hosted by the Steve "I Plodius" Gillmor and joined by myself, Doc Searls, Dana Gardner and Mike Vizard. Lane, who served as president and COO of Oracle before become a VC with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talked about Web...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Ray Lane
- Blog posts 2005-10-15
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