The enterprise software industry was shaken recently by a Salesforce announcement that it was going to include a component in its customer relationship management software that functions in ways similar to Twitter and Facebook. The announcement came the same day Microsoft officially confirmed on a development blog that a similar effort called Outlook Social Connector ...

Facebook e-commerce could be getting a lot easier for everyone with a new offering from Payvment that provides a shopping cart service that can be networked between participating retailers. The beta application introduced at PayPal X Innovate09 in San Francisco lets shoppers move between stores putting purchases into a single shopping cart, Christian Taylor, Payvment’s ...

In recent weeks, we’ve heard a ton of news about Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010. Most corporations use SharePoint for collaboration on a single platform through extranets and the Internet. Revising the toolset, as Microsoft does with the new SharePoint 2010, means major changes in how people work together. That’s why we got in touch with AvePoint, ...

StuffBuff combines the “old” and the new in a sexy sort of way, its founder says with a smile. “I like to say that if a young and sexy Twitter got together with an older and more established eBay, then StuffBuff would be their love child,” Michael Langer, company founder and CEO, says   in this ...

PayPal is about to open new development platform APIs, and the company gave a sneak peak to those attending the recent PayPal X Innovate09 conference in San Francisco. Osama Bedier, vice president of PayPal’s Platforms and Product Development, talks about some of those new APIs in this building43 interview. He also talks about PayPal’s future ...

It might seem that Flickr, the photo sharing site, has wrapped it all up, right?  Not yet. The creators of an app now in beta called Rrripple have developed what they say is a more secure, more flexible and easier-to-use approach to sharing a variety of media. In this building43 video interview, Heather Hiles, co-founder ...

CitySourced is a remarkable startup story. The company and its product began as an iPhone app to crowdsource routine city problems. Just a few weeks later, CitySourced nearly won the TechCrunch50 2009 technology competition. CitySourced developers almost didn’t make it on stage at the technology competition in San Francisco. Only a last-minute acceptance as an ...

The development team refining the Seesmic Desktop and the Seesmic Web just shipped two new products using Twitter APIs: lists and geolocation. The release keeps the team in what they consider an almost weekly competition to refine their product which aggregates software for Twitter and Facebook information streams. A third Twitter API-based product — setting ...

Patrick Chanezon, a developer advocate at Google, travels the world studying what developers are doing with the latest Web technologies. We interviewed Chanezon in the real Building 43, the main building at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., about HTML5 and other bleeding-edge technologies. HTML5 is the next major revision for hypertext markup language. While ...