Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how companies might approach adopting more SaaS (software as a service). Specifically: what’s the motivating factor to make the jump from on-site hosted solutions all the way to SaaS delivery (skipping the Cloud Computing bump in-between), and which IT services in particular are easier [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of bdg, the company behind the conference social networking solution The Social Collective gave me the scoop on their upcoming Facebook Connect integration.
The Social Collective is bdg’s first SaaS offering: a Ruby on Rails-based social networking application for conferences that allows attendees to mix and mingle online before, during [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
In an article yesterday, InformationWeek named PBWiki their favorite on-demand wiki. I tried out PBWiki myself, and here’s my take on it:
I agree that it takes very little time to get started with a new Wiki. The site is very fast, and generally very easy to use. It only took me about 30 seconds [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Disqus, the JavaScript-based commenting add-on for blogs and community sites, will soon be getting Facebook Connect support, allowing users to log into Disqus and post comments on blogs with their Facebook account. The new upgrade will also allow blog owners to optionally send events back to Facebook once a user posts a comment.
The Facebook [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Are you a Product Manager looking for work who loves web software and also happens to use Twitter? And do you just happen to have some brilliant idea on how Twitter might monetize their services? You might be in luck, because Twitter is now looking for their very first Product Manager:
As Twitter’s first product [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Steve
I missed the updates about this in the evening on Monday. Shortly after announcing integration with Google’s Friend Connect service on Monday, the Twitter team was quick to follow up (in Tweets, no less) that they are planning to integrate with Facebook Connect. Later updates in the company blog were more to the point:
Integrating [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Steve
Six Apart’s Moveable Type blogging platform is getting a new social networking add-on, called Motion, which will become generally available in early 2009. Motion is currently in Beta today, and can be downloaded explicitly for non-production use. Details on how the new platform will work are a little sparse, but according to the official company [...]
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