Blog Archives

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 My contact list is a mess – many thousands of contacts, many with extremely out of date information and lots of duplication, format errors and the like.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Blog Archives

Searching for the Ultimate Contact List Solution

Salesforce Launches Data.com – Saves D&B to Fight Another Day

Rainmaker – Augmenting Contact Data

Jigsaw Goes Native, and Freemium

CrowdFlower–and a Symbiosis of Human/Machine Input