Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-13
- Microsoft and Intuit to boost web apps with cloud computing – Techworld.com http://shar.es/aLaVT via @sharethis #
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Microsoft and Intuit to boost web apps with cloud computing – Techworld.com http://shar.es/aLaVT via @sharethis
“Who’s Really Winning the Search Race“
Seek and Ye Shall Find
From Internet News, “Who’s Really Winning the Search Race“:
http://www.internetnews.com/search/article.php/3825856/Whos+Really+Winning+the+Search+Race.htm
Yet, as it turns out, the big players aren’t the ones seeing the most growth in search. Instead, it’s Craigslist that leads in percent growth according to comScore. The online classifieds site posting a 12 percent jump in queries from 583 million to 651 million from April to May.
Here’s the data, with search queries denominated in millions:
| Entities | Apr-09 | May-09 | Growth |
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| Google Sites | 13,041 | 13,035 | 0% |
| Yahoo Sites | 3,161 | 3,021 | -4% |
| Microsoft Sites | 1,250 | 1,194 | -4% |
| AOL LLC | 795 | 721 | -9% |
| Ask Network | 705 | 691 | -2% |
| craigslist | 583 | 651 | 12% |
| MySpace Sites | 658 | 636 | -3% |
| eBay | 654 | 634 | -3% |
| Amazon Sites | 188 | 185 | -2% |
| 176 | 184 | 5% |
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-14
- QuickBase-new national online database site simplifies text for students with disabilities: http://bit.ly/8SHMv via @addthis +300,000 books #
- Remembrance Day -Check this video out — A Pittance of Time – Terry Kelly http://bit.ly/QFOwI #
- Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Quickbase to join #
- SlideShare : Building Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos http://slidesha.re/4cp4lU #
- QuickBase Digital Pen Solution on Intuit Labs: http://bit.ly/4uCmuK #
- An Introduction to Business Plans – Entrepreneur.com – http://shar.es/akrzg #
- How Web 2.0 usage is changing over time: http://bit.ly/g6Twg via @addthis #
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QuickBase – Custom Applications
Get Organized – QuickBase
Get Organized
The life of a small business owner is a juggling act. Between managing people, projects and paperwork, you’re bound to be a stress case. Intuit’s QuickBase is one resource that can help you pull it all together.
QuickBase has pre-generated templates and applications that break down complicated and overwhelming projects into doable tasks. Instead of wasting time chasing down status updates and consolidating spreadsheets, QuickBase lets you create a database where you can see the status of all your tasks and projects in one place. QuickBase is loaded with features that help you get work done correctly and on-time. Color code urgent tasks so that your team can prioritize and important steps don’t get overlooked. Get automated reports, e-mail alerts and reminders so that wok gets done on a timely basis. Team members can access the database at anytime to update or edit any of the tasks. QuickBase requires no programming. Intuit claims that anyone who has advanced knowledge of spreadsheet applications can change, add or remove features in a snap. For some small businesses, QuickBase’s price tag may seem a little out of reach. There are other project management database’s out there that are less expensive, but just remember, you pay for what you get. Businesses willing to spend the extra cash on QuickBase will get a truly comprehensive and easy to use system.
While everything has its flaws, QuickBase’s are minimal. The most common complaint is with the charting feature. Reportedly, when trying to chart large data ranges, users receive an obscure error that warns of too many “subdivisions.” Once more precise data filters are added, charts function normally. QuickBase’s help system is not so helpful either. But many users applaud QuickBase user forums, where you’re likely to get a quick and accurate answer from the developers or other users.
- No software to install.
- User management dashboard.
- Ready-made application templates.
- Share applications.
- Access from any Web browser anytime.
- Build templates.
- No programming required.
- Interactive tables, timelines, charts and calendars.
QuickBase Digital Pen Solution
QuickBase Digital Pen Solution
Video Demo (click to play)
Turn Your Paper Form to Electronic Data with Single Click
Are you spending time and money to reenter hand-written data from paper forms to computer? Do you need a convenient way to capture data in the field? Want to find a way for your employees/customers to collect information with virtually no training? Then our QuickBase Digital Pen Solution might be the answer.
The QuickBase Digital Pen Solution is an exciting QuickBase platform feature we are working on. As a software service, it seamlessly integrates digital pen, hand-writing recognition, and smart data management technologies, and enables any QuickBase form to be digital pen ready with a single click. Check out the video demo above, in which we show how easy it is to automate a front-desk check-in for a vet clinic using this new feature.
Highlights:
Feedback
Currently, QuickBase Digital Pen Solution is a lab prototype and has limited availability. We’d love hearing your thoughts! Drop us an email or leave your comments below.
Also, we are looking for earlier adopters to help us improve the system. If you are interested, please contact Gang Wang (Gang_Wang@intuit.com) directly. We would like to know more detailed use case in your mind.
QuickBase-new national online …
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Intuit muscles into the Platform as a Service game
Intuit muscles into the Platform as a Service game |
 http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid201_gci1372666,00.html
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| By Carl Brooks, Technology Writer 28 Oct 2009 | SearchCloudComputing.com |
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Intuit this week unveiled its own Platform as a Service (PaaS) model that parallels what Salesforce.com has done with Force.com — but with a twist.
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With the arrival of 2010 versions of Intuit’s popular desktop software, users will be able to purchase third-party custom applications from within the software itself — open Quickbooks, click a button and trade directly with a vendor.
The App Center comes at a important time for PaaS, with many seeing the model as a safer, easier way to use cloud computing than dealing directly with hosted infrastructure providers such as Amazon or Rackspace.
Intuit said it wants to solve common irritants like data security for users and open a new channel for revenue by giving developers an easy way to reach a tantalizing captive audience: Four million customers, most of them small and medium businesses (SMBs) that need to solve business problems on a budget.
“It’s the world of convenience, right?” said Alan Keller, VP of business development for VerticalResponse, which published an email marketing tool in the App Center. He thinks QuickBooks users are the perfect target for his company, and Intuit made it relatively easy to tie his application, which is not based on Intuit’s software or platform, into their database of user QuickBooks data.
Keller said that his firm has gleaned several hundred subscribers from the program so far, and hopes for more. VerticalResponse users really want to avoid entangling themselves in multiple software applications and tools — they want everything built-in as much as possible. VerticalResponse has also been a part of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange online market, and Keller said it was a great success for similar reasons.
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Intuit may face some heavy competition quickly, since Salesforce.com is backing FinanancialForce.com, an online accounting service that its users can use with AppExchange.
“It’s definitely where we see our customers going,” said Alex Chriss, director of Intuit’s partner program. Chriss said that while Intuit was under the radar in cloud computing, the $3 billion software company had spent the last year and half building out a data center to house customers’ online data, making synchronization a feature in 2009 and opening the “federated Inuit platform” this summer.
Intuit promises interoperability with other platforms
Intuit released application programming interfaces (APIs) in June to allow developers with applications from any platform to interface with the Intuit platform, opening up the field.
That’s a significant difference from customer relationship management (CRM) leader and PaaS provider Salesforce.com, which restricts developers to its proprietary Apex coding language. Intuit’s platform is built on Quickbase and open source Adobe Flex. Intuit also encourages an open source community of developers to swap code and ideas, something Salesforce.com emphatically does not support. Both platforms run on Salesforce.com and Intuit’s respective data centers.
Intuit’s Workplace platform and App Center now present a potent avenue for developers to reach users who wouldn’t ever turn to advanced computing tools or build their own infrastructure in the cloud.
At least that’s the hope, according to Intuit. The vendor has a captive audience and a loyal one, if only because small businesses can’t afford anything better, so by pushing applications in their faces, they can pick up ready money as they move into services. But these applications have to be worthwhile — currently there are around 30. Applications will be sold on a subscription basis and Intuit will take 20% of the revenue at this point, said Chriss.
Carl Brooks is the Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com. Contact him at cbrooks@techtarget.com.
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| Tags: Platform as a Service and cloud computing, Test and development in the cloud, VIEW ALL TAGS |
