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Salesforce launches 'Wordpress to leads' plugin

Little bit late on this one, but thought it was interesting for those of you using Salesforce.com and a Wordpress blog/site.  Salesforce is providing users of the popular blogging platform with a time-saving plugin: WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM.

In the past, WordPress users had to copy and paste leads into Salesforce.  The new Salesforce Wordpress plugin solves [...]

Microsoft launches Azure in Australia

Microsoft today marked the official availability of the Windows Azure Platform in Australia by showcasing local customers and partners who are already using and benefiting from the company’s cloud-based development platform.

The Windows Azure platform includes Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and offers a flexible, scalable and familiar environment for developers to [...]

major new release of Google docs. Collaboration baked in

Google has announced that it has rebuilt Google Docs from the ground-up. The result is a massive overhaul of Google Docs, including completely redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors, group chat functionality, and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up, much like Google Wave..

The rebuilt Google Docs focuses on addressing some of the traditional issues with document [...]

community responds to Google’s fiber plans

Google have posted an update on their first round of submissions for the rollout of their fiber network.  Turns out it’s a pretty popular scheme!

Aside from cities offering to change their name to secure some GOOG love, they had 1100 community and 194,000 individual responses.

You can read all about the responses and the next steps [...]

the state of the Internet, in video

Jesse Thomas, self-titled ‘genius’ of social media, has put together some nice animations showing the ’state of the Internet’ for a presentation he gave at AIGA, Baltimore in February.  Some biiggg numbers on show!

the full video is embedded below:

quick pro tip of the day #37

You’d think this would be obvious by now, but how about this:  if you’re spending money on a TV advert and sending me off to your website for further details then how about making the offer/product prominent on the home page?  Better still, give me a landing page specific to the product!

Not mentioning any names [...]

snappy document peer reviews with Crocodoc

Here’s a handy little service.  Crocodoc offers a way to undertake simple peer reviews of documents online.  The free service allows you upload Word, PDF and PowerPoint files which are converted and made available under a private URL (known only to the uploader and whoever they choose to share it with).  Edits can then be [...]

I've just checked in somewhere far from home .. please rob me

Tapping into the current trend of ‘checking in’ everywhere we go, pleaserobme.com aims to teach the Foursquare and Gowalla addicted amongst us a lesson in the dark side of location-based applications.

Pulling in check-in information sent to the public Twitter timeline, pleaserobme explains the thinking behind the site: “the danger [...]

the buzz about Google Buzz

[Update: see official Google Buzz video embedded below]

Google have just announced the public launch of its ‘Buzz’ service.  Integrated into Gmail and rolling out to all users over the next few days Buzz is a stream of status updates, pictures, links, and videos from your friends.

You can “like” these items and you can comment on [...]

better clean up those Facebook photos before your next interview

drunk girl

Unless you plan on staying completely off of the grid, it’s somewhat hard nowadays to avoid leaving quite an extensive digital trail.  Whilst a lot of that might actually prove rather useful at some point (white papers, insightful blog posts, stunning LinkedIn profiles), you might like to consider removing – or at least [...]