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• Salesforce Times Fills a News Niche

  Katie Kollitz Nov 28, 2007

  We wanted to let you know about a website that caught our attention recently: Salesforce Times. Started by Adam Killam, a Vancouver-based salesforce.com Administrator and leader of the Vancouver Salesforce User Group, the site aggregates news about salesforce.com from a variety of sources but is not affiliated or endorsed by salesforce.com.

  "I started the site because I'm a Salesforce fanatic and wanted an easy and accessible place to learn about the latest SFDC related news," Killam explains. "Salesforcetimes hopes to provide Salesforce enthusiasts with a place to learn about how Salesforce is being covered by the rest of the world, in the main stream media, in the blogosphere and elsewhere. We'll be there to provide the coverage Salesforce fans are looking for."

  If you're interested in contributing, Salesforce Times is accepting applications.

  

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• Salesforce Community News, Piping Hot

  Kingsley Joseph Apr 10, 2007

  I put together a Yahoo! Pipe which lets you find out what's being said about a particular term within the Salesforce Community.

  You can see it at work at the Salesforce Community Search page on Yahoo! Pipes. You can also copy it and make improvements to it.

  

  The main difference between it, and the Google powered community search on this site, is that these results are weighed for recency, not relevancy.

  It searches the discussion forums, the IdeaExchange, the salesforce.com blogs the internet in general and the blogosphere in particular, and then tries to create a result which produces the most recent things said about the term you're searching for. The output is available as an RSS/Atom feed, so you can subscribe to it, and a JSON object, so that you can mash it up. And for those of you who get a laugh out of such things, here's the ugly, messy underbelly:

  

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• Wordpress has an IdeaExchange

  Kingsley Joseph Jan 23, 2007

  The day I slip upon news like this is the day the Chennai (I've been vacationing in my hometown in India) sun has turned my brain to mush. Wordpress now has a section called Ideas where users can post, rate and comment on ideas - much like the IdeaExchange.

  I don't know if the Wordpress crew was inspired by what we were doing, but this is great vindication that user communities are going to play an increasing role in how the products they use shape up.

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