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Tuesday, 21st July 2009

AppExchange Win: FreshBooks Now Connects with Salesforce.com

Today, the Salesforce AppExchange has acquired one of the most-requested additions to the Salesforce.com CRM: integration with FreshBooks, the popular Web-based invoicing software. Built by cloud development agency FirmCloud in collaboration with FreshBooks, the FreshBooks Connector for Salesforce allows an enterprise to smoothly create an…

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Wikis Get Enlisted in Military Experiments

For many branches of the U.S. military, it's the year to bring Web 2.0 inside the war room. Flagship experiments in many a division are using open source wiki software like MediaWiki and MindTouch. In both free and paid deployments, these collaborative networks are proving to be a favorite testing ground for a new way to manage the knowledge of…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

Adobe: Mobile Flash to Get Accelerometer, Multi-touch Support Early Next Year

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said at a company event for analysts today that a full featured version of Flash for mobile phones will be available in beta by the end of this year and by early next year the technology will be making use of multi-touch and accelerometer features on smart phones. Ted Patrick, Adobe's Senior Manager of Developer…

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Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization

Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade 12 students. One key element of the organization includes offering "FlexBooks" - a product that allows educators and students to create and edit…

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Photo Tagger: Facial Recognition for Auto-Tagging Facebook Photos

We have invites, click through to get yours! Earlier this year, a company called Face.com brought facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of an application called Photo Finder which scanned through untagged photos and identified the people within them. Now, using the same facial recognition algorithms that made Photo Finder possible…

Social Sarah Perez comments

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