We have quietly rolled out a powerful new feature on the Force.com Discussion Boards.  Just like a typical Google search, the search widget uses a predictive algorithm to suggest any related topic, post, category or keyword in the Force.com community discussion boards based on terms you enter into the search field.  If you decide you do not like this feature, you have the option of turning it off.  This feature works when searching the entire community, or a specific board.

This year’s Dreamforce Hackathon was more exciting than ever! With over $23k at stake, developers form all over the world descended onto Moscone West on September 1 to pitch their apps to the judges with the hopes of placing in the top three to take home the most lucrative prizes.

The challenge was to build a social enterprise app built on or more of the following: Force.com, Heroku, or Database.com. Forty-eight teams registered starting on the Friday before Dreamforce and had roughly six days to code. Many, however, did not even find out about the contest prior to arriving… Continue reading

This year, the Lightning Forum is back and better than ever!   We have booked almost 40 30-minute talks taking place over the course of Dreamforce by industry giants such as Google and IBM, plus partners such Appirio, Twilio, StackMob and DocuSign.  Also, several Salesforce.com employees and Force.com MVPs will share their best practices, tips and tricks.  Topics vary widely and are promised to be informative and helpful.

Just a quick glance at the variety of experience amongst our list of speakers reveals a wide range of companies, ideas and disciplines—more than any available in any one place of the… Continue reading

This is a guest post by Gnip

What would you build if you had access to the realtime Twitter Firehose?  Gnip is providing access to our Twitter firehose-based data streams to Dreamforce Hackathon participants so you can answer this question.  With over 200 million Tweets per day, Gnip’s data streams represent what the world is thinking right now about nearly every topic imaginable.

At Gnip, we believe that this data will change the world.  The thoughts, conversations, images and ideas expressed via social media have infinite application and unlimited value.  We believe that no… Continue reading

The Dreamforce ’11 Hackathon, Mission: Code Compete, launched this morning with $23,500 in prizes up for grabs.

Think you’ve got what it takes to hack with the best? You’ve got until 6:00 am on Thursday, September 1st to register and submit.

So get hacking!… Continue reading

The hackathons at Dreamforce get bigger each year, and this year is no different. We’ve upped the ante even more – check out what’s for grabs below!

Are you ready to take part? This is a warm-up blog post – the registration and challenge rules will be posted on August 26. You’ll have to register (and you’ll have until September 1 to do it), but you will be able to start coding for the challenge immediately.

We’ll also post up a bunch of resources that you can use when the hackathon starts – and the full rules of… Continue reading