Just got out of a presentation about VisualForce. The Force.com platform is stunningly powerful and simple. If you’re a developer or consultant who wants to build an application on Force.com, you have to go to Tour De Force. It’s a day packed with sessions to get you up to speed on everything from Apex [...]
There’s a good post on GigaOM talking about the true definition of SaaS. Alistair points out:
“Everyone’s on the software-as-a-service bandwagon … But not every company that calls itself SaaS deserves the title.
One branch of the on-demand evolutionary tree is what I’d call (at the risk of yet another unfortunate acronym) peripheral-as-a-service. As we move from [...]
Though not exactly SaaS news, Powerset has developed a powerful semantic search engine. So instead of just matching keywords; semantic search tries to understand the meaning of your search query. For example, if you search “children books” or “books, children wrote” you will get similar results from a typical search engine. But those queries [...]
This is another entry to our ongoing series of SaaS company profiles. To view more profiles click on The Players.
Zuora was founded earlier this year by former Salesforce and WebEx veterans, Tien Tzuo and K.V Rao. Taking a bit from each of their lastnames, you get “Zuora”. Based in Redwood City CA, Zuora provides a [...]
This is not a SaaS post, but it is about something I find extremely interesting…
Here’s the back drop story: I was born in Europe, and soccer (football as I like to call it) is naturally in my blood. The UEFA European Cup (Euro 2008) is going on right now, in fact it started yesterday, and [...]
It was late at night in London and while walking back to the hostel, I spotted this cab.
Hello dear readers,
It has been over a month since the last post. Darren and I are back and ready to write many more SaaS and entrepreneurship-related articles.
I fell upon a funny article today at InsideCRM. The title of the article is “25 things I learned about business from South Park.” I watch South Park [...]
