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Big Or Small, You’ll Love The Social Fleet – Salesforce Of Things

By Reid Carlberg | Published: January 18, 2012

Yesterday, I introduced you to the Grand Prize winner in the Salesforce Labs Salesforce of Things event, Printer + Salesforce + Arduino = Like.  As great as that app is, I have a prediction: you will fall in love with this next video.

Why?  Read on!!

The Social Fleet, from Dan Kauppi, Sergei Dubinin and Max Aleksandrov, is a great example of how you can monitor and manage your fleet using the Force.com platform and a couple of great apps.  Let’s take a look!

Is that incredible or what?  Location.  Productivity.  Maintenance requirements.  Fuel… Continue reading

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Introducing the Grand Prize Winner for “The Salesforce of Things”

By Reid Carlberg | Published: January 17, 2012

A few weeks ago, back when American Thanksgiving was just in the planning stage, Salesforce Labs kicked off a really fun project: The Salesforce of Things. We had 15 great submissions and it’s my honor today to share the grand prize winner with you. Continue reading

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Get 2012 Started Right: Install ChatUp!

By Reid Carlberg | Published: January 3, 2012

Well, the 2011 holiday season is in the bag and everyone — including me — is wandering back toward reality, scratching our heads, and trying to answer one question: how do we kick 2012 off with a bang?

First things first: please go get a cup of your morning beverage of choice.  My coffee and I will wait.

All set?  OK!

Back before this season was a memory, deep in the heart of that week right before everyone disappeared, the good people behind Salesforce Labs released a new app: ChatUp.  Missed it?  Don’t worry, that’s the reason… Continue reading

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Aloha, Milestones PM & The Labs Bug Bounty

By Reid Carlberg | Published: November 23, 2011

Well, it’s the day before Thanksgiving here in the US, and a lot of people are already out dealing with their traditional turkey and carb delight.

But not you, gentle reader.  There you are, working hard — keeping the lights on and the calories at bay.

Well your pre-holiday dedication is about to pay off as I have two — count them! — two exciting developments to share with you.

First, I’m very pleased to announce that Milestones PM is now available as both an Unmanaged App and as a Managed Aloha App.  That’s right: Milestones PM… Continue reading

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Update On Labs Updates

By Reid Carlberg | Published: October 17, 2011

It’s been a little while since I posted so you might be wondering, “What’s up with Labs updates?” Well, wonder no more! Continue reading

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Milestones PM Updated with Task and Milestone Dependencies

By Reid Carlberg | Published: September 26, 2011

If you attended the Dive In: Join or Start an Open Source Community session at Dreamforce, you are well aware that Milestones PM, one of our most successful Force.com Labs apps to date, is open source. You and your developer friends can head straight over to our GitHub account, ForceDotComLabs, and get the code, check out the issues list and, today, for the first time, check out our fancy new Version History. Continue reading

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Great Force.com Labs Sessions at Dreamforce

By Reid Carlberg | Published: August 29, 2011

Dreamforce is here. Wow. That was fast! If you’re a fan of Force.com Labs, I’d love to meet you. In fact, I’ve set up two dedicated times. Continue reading

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HOWTO: Contribute to Milestones PM (Code Not Required) (#opensource)

By Reid Carlberg | Published: August 5, 2011

There are many ways to participate in open source projects, and many do not require you to code. In fact, where we could use the most help, identifying and verifying bugs, is a non-code issue. So is adding ideas. Continue reading

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Good Morning #OSCON from Force.com (& Why Open Source)

By Reid Carlberg | Published: July 25, 2011

I’m excited to be at OSCON this year. It’s my first trip, and so far Portland is proving to be far more comfortable than Chicago, (weather-wise anyway). In the mean time, I’ve been asking myself a simple question: why open source? Two interesting posts popped up in my pre #OSCON related reading that both point to the same idea (and about zillion more will popup by the end of the week — that’s why I’m here). Continue reading

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CloudSpokes Releases, Promotes Open Source

By Reid Carlberg | Published: July 21, 2011

CloudSpokes, the cloud code focused crowd sourcing app (say that five times fast), today announced two very exciting things with regards to open source. Continue reading

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