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Filed under: Business, Internet, E-mail, Web services, Google, web 2.0

Google and Salesforce.com announce Google Apps integration


Salesforce for Google Apps goes live today, which basically means that Salesforce.com users can integrate Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Calendar, Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services with their Salesforce account.

Why exactly does this matter? Basically, it gives small business owners a one-stop shop for managing their workforce, customer, and marketing information. Saleforce has its own email application, for example, allowing you to keep track of business related emails from the same interface you use to manage contracts. But now that there's Gmail integration, you can send an email from Salesforce.com, Gmail, or a desktop application like Outlook linked to your account. All of your information will be viewable from the Salesforce web interface.

The folks at Common Craft put together a simple explanatory video which you can see above. We kind of like it better than the official video from Salesforce, but you can check that one out after the jump.

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Filed under: Internet, Photo, Web services, Social Software

Add Photobucket pictures to Myspace comments

Myspace, which acquired photo-sharing powerhouse Photobucket back in May, now allows users to easily insert their Photobucket pictures into Myspace comments. To take advantage of this feature, just login to Myspace and attempt to comment on another user's profile. When the comment box appears, enter your witty, extremely original comment, then click the "Add image from Photobucket" link. You'll be prompted to login to Photobucket and select a picture to post with the comment.

If you don't think your own photos are exciting enough, you can also use Photobucket's "Find Stuff" search feature from within Myspace's comment editor. This allows you to find totally cool animated icons, funny (while relevant) seasonal pictures, or pictures from other users' albums.

As Mashable points out, for some reason Myspace doesn't automatically log you in to Photobucket. At least the second login is inline and doesn't require a new tab or window to go hunting for a picture URL.

Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software

MyBlogLog adds profile integration with Flickr

MyBlogLog Profile and FlickrAfter the recent acquisition from Yahoo!, I only just got around to checking out MyBlogLog (My profile shows me registering on 1/26/2007).

These days, most social services integrate with the Flickr API, so I thought nothing of it when I saw that I could set that up. However, according to a post on Mashable!, it looks like this is a shiny new feature (we love those here).

Further investigation finds a post on the MyBlogLog blog where the developers announce this new way of adding pictures to your profile.

The Mashable post gets into additional thoughts for Yahoo! property integration - Yahoo! IDs is a given, and del.icio.us makes sense also. I'd also like to add Yahoo! 360 - for those of us that use it, it'd be nice to incorporate the MyBlogLog tracking into the 'official' blogging service from 'Big Daddy'.

If you already use MyBlogLog, we'd love to see you in our Community.

Flickr supports the new Blogger beta

Flickr supports the new Blogger beta
Blogger and Flickr are not so strange bed-fellows now that Flickr has support for the new Blogger in beta. This is great news for Flickrites (Flickr user) and Bloggerites (Blogger user) alike. It really does help to be both for this to work, just for your information. Flickr uses a secure authentication method and updated their software so it would work with Blogger's new version. You must allow access from your blogger beta blog for Flickr to access it. Your information (user and password) will not be shared with Flickr, to keep your Google account more secure. Flickr will even redirect you to Google to setup access to your blog. Pretty slick indeed, don't you think?

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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