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Jigsaw Goes Native, and Freemium

May 10, 2011

Business

cloud computing, Jigsaw, marketing, Salesforce.com

A year or so ago when salesforce.com acquired contact data cleansing company Jigsaw, many of us saw it as a natural progression but wondered how salesforce would integrate the product into its own suite and what their approach to…
Searching for the Ultimate Contact List Solution

June 14, 2013

Business

Business and Economy, Contact list, Email address, Google Contacts, Jigsaw, Rapportive, Telecommunications, Telephone number

I get a lot of email – hundreds of emails a day. My contact list is a mess – many thousands of contacts, many with extremely out of date information and lots of duplication, format errors and the like.…
Salesforce Launches Data.com – Saves D&B to Fight Another Day

August 31, 2011

Business

cloud computing, Jigsaw, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service

When salesforce acquired Jigsaw a year and a half ago, I said at the time that it as the beginning of the end for traditional data service providers like D&B and Hoover’s. I foresaw a situation where, unless they…
Rainmaker – Augmenting Contact Data

June 1, 2011

Business

Data cleansing, Jigsaw, linkedin, rainmaker, Rapportive, Xobni Insight

I’ve written before about Jigsaw, the contact aggregation and data cleansing service that is now owned by salesforce.com. While I was at Glue conference I took some time to meet with Dan Lynn, the co-founder of Rainmaker. Rainmaker is…
Salesforce, Seesmic and ManyMoon–Good Move or Kool Aide Consumption?

February 10, 2011

Business

dimdim, google, Google Apps Marketplace, groupswim, Loïc Le Meur, Manymoon, Salesforce.com, seesmic

A few days ago salesforce.com announced that it had acquired social productivity application ManyMoon. Surprisingly the blogosphere remained relatively silent about the deal beyond a post by Klint who referenced Sameer Patel saying; With its strong project facilitation focus,…
CrowdFlower–and a Symbiosis of Human/Machine Input

December 16, 2010

Business

Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Jigsaw, Lukas Biewald

Sometimes in the race towards automation, we lose sight of the fact that there’s times when, by using people, we can avoid a lot of the errors computers make. The question to ask then is how do we make…
Win Some Free Shizz – Including a coolio bike (oh and see some guys do some music stuff)

May 6, 2010

Uncategorized

30 seconds to mars, competition, EMI, masi

So some dudes are coming to New Zealand, yeah, them 30 Seconds to mars Guys and the folks over at EMI Music decided to run a kind of complex and kind of cool social media competition. And they asked…
Salesforce takes it to Data Services Companies

April 23, 2010

Analysis

I’m all about disruption. It never ceases to amaze me the impact that small agile players can have when up against the well funded big boys. Witness RedMonk going up against Gartner et al. As a SaaS CEO I…
How close is Google Apps (with Sites) to Microsoft’s SharePoint?

March 3, 2008

Business

(cross posting from Mike Riversdale’s “Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style” blog) My answer to the question in the title – not very but Google Sites (Apps) is travelling to the same destination as SharePoint but along a very different…

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