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Send Notes to your Evernote Notebook from Twitter


You can now take notes in Evernote directly from Twitter. You can also view what people are saving into Evernote through a simple...
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ExactTarget API tip - complex filters


A couple of weeks ago I was at a client site doing ExactTarget API consulting. This client is standardizing on ExactTarget as their single source of all e-mail communications from three of their internal applications. They will use 5Buckets for the...
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Templates bring Docs to life


What do wedding planners, gas mileage calculators and photo albums have in common? They're all examples of templates available in the Google Docs Template Gallery that Sarah Beth Eisinger (Docs Templates engineer), Grant Dasher (intern), and I...
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Gilbert and Sullivan present: The High-Tech Produc


I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. Here’s how Gilbert and Sullivan *may* have described high-tech Product Managers. I am the very model of a high-tech product manager, I’ve information customer, partner and...
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Address Data Providers Integrate to Salesforce


In Australia, the Postal Service can supply a data file or xml integration of all combinations of City, Zip Code and State. I would assume that this is available in other countries also....
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The Forces of Long Tail Software and Services


Chris Anderson's book on "the business of selling more of less" has enlightened people's thinking about current market economics where modern day technology and the Internet has enabled long tail ecommerce to flourish. For this blog post, I...
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Guest Post: Handling a Referral in a Job Search


With the economy headed south and tech feeling the pressure, many of you may soon be looking for a job. The best path is through a referral from a former colleague or friend. That's how I landed my current role at salesforce.com (which is hiring...
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Engineering a healthier diet


Back in 2007, the cafes at our Mountain View campus started color-coding menu items according to healthfulness. The healthiest items are colored green ("go ahead, pile it on!"), foods you should portion-control are yellow, and foods you should eat...
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