Cloud Providers Rulers of the Cloud: Your CEO has a SalesForce.com-Powered TweetDeck, and She's Following You Today, we drop another another segment in the Rulers of the Cloud series, focusing on SalesForce.com, the cloud innovator that re-invented the rules of CRM (Customer Relationship Management). SalesForce is growing into a big company, recently announcing over a $1 billion in revenue annual run rate. Yet, the company is still an agile… Mike Kirkwood View comments
NYT Facebook Confirms & Reconsiders Forthcoming Location Feature Facebook confirmed today that it is working on a location-based product but said that it has re-evaluated its plans to focus more on places like restaurants. As part of a larger blog post about clarifying language around privacy controls, Facebook deputy general counsel Michael Richter said today that the company now has "different ideas" that… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Music Spotify is Getting Ready for U.S. Launch in Q3 While Spotify CEO Daniel Ek didn't say much about his company's timeline for launching in the U.S. during his SXSW keynote interview, it definitely looks like the popular streaming music services is putting all the pieces for a U.S. launch together. In an interview with Bloomberg earlier today, Spotify's senior vice president Paul Brown noted… Play Frederic Lardinois View comments
Location Meet Gatsby: Connect With Like-Minded Foursquare Users Around You After going off a bit this morning on how content personalization and recommendation engines can be the death of free thought and lively debate, we figured we'd send you off into the weekend with a fun little gadget we found in the process - a social recommendation service for Foursquare called Meet Gatsby. Meet Gatsby works alongside… Mike Melanson View comments
Features Open Thread: Are You Still Using Google Buzz? After Google Buzz launched to a lot of hype and controversy in early February, it looked like it could become a big hit for Google - especially after the company fixed some of the early privacy flaws that plagued Buzz in its early days. These days, however, a lot of us on the RWW team have noticed that the number of interactions on Buzz seems to… Frederic Lardinois View comments