Salesforce.com Now Lets Companies Build Both Apps And Sites In The Cloud

TechCrunchIT
Salesforce.com’s platform to build and deploy enterprise applications, Force.com ,has rolled out a new capability, called Force.com Sites, that lets companies build and run their applications for internal use as well as public use on Salesforce.com cloud computing platform.

Recession 2.0—Social networking eases the pain

The Fast Forward Blog
“A hiring company that uses Appirio’s product asks its employees to add an application to their Facebook pages. The tool will notify the employees when new jobs open and which of their friends might be a good fit. Appirio’s matching engine comes up with a list of friends whose job titles, geographic location and other keywords match their company’s available positions, and the employee can send them a referral in Facebook.”

Public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds—reach for your umbrellas!

FSN
“Most of the companies talking about private clouds are making a lot of money out of selling you data centres,” asserts the VP of product management, who sees the private cloud as little more than “a data centre by another name”. -Ryan Nichols “A private cloud wont offer businesses the incremental improvements they gain when they stop operating their own data centre,” he states.