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1. Technologies behind Google ranking
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... fulfill the expectations of each and every user, and to do that we need to better understand the pages, the queries, and our users. Over the last decade we have pushed the technologies for understanding ...

2. New enhancements on the Google content network
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

Today we're announcing some key enhancements on the Google content network (partner sites for which we provide advertising) that will offer a better experience for users and better value for advertisers ...

3. The Google Homepage - The Future Face of SaaS?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

...  and Rearden Commerce. Together, these solutions alone represent an estimated 5M daily users (Appirio analysis of industry data). Due to their nearly ubiquitous presence on the Internet and the emergence ...

4. Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce Summer ‘08
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... computing to the enterprise. Visualforce, part of the Force.com platform, is now live in every edition of Salesforce and is designed to enable users to [...] Salesforce.com has announced that ...

5. Can Google Bring Enterprises Together?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... you can check on an RFP response than to the actual user experience. Make users WANT to be there - The beauty of social networking sites is people actually want to be there. How many people can say that ...

6. Reinventing the Wiki with OpenTeams
(Platform as a Service/Solution Watch)

... Its interface is organized much like an email client so non-technical users immediately become familiar with the system and collaborate. But OpenTeams isn’t just limited [...] OpenTeams offers ...

7. Search quality, continued
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... by how long their users stay. We measure our web search success partly by how quickly you leave (happily, we hope!). There are several principles we use in getting you to the information you need as quickly ...

8. Forget Paper and Sign Contracts Online With Tractis
(Platform as a Service/Solution Watch)

... for the selling of goods. (Goodbye lawyers!) But where do these contacts come from? The answer is other Tractis users. In your account, you can create contract templates and make them publicly available ...

9. Hitting 40 languages
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... While many Australians searching for [freedom] are looking for the Australian furniture chain, UK and US users are often looking for the definition of the word itself. Our search results, then, have to ...

10. Salesforce and Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... ability to work offline, records management for documents and automatic footnoting. Google is working on some of these issues, Creese noted, but their absence means that even corporate users who want ...

11. Getting your Own Data out of Google Servers - How Easy is that ?
(Platform as a Service/Digital Inspiration)

... Photos (Picasa Web Albums) get the maximum points as both these services make it extremely easy for users to download their own content locally. You can export any Blogger blog in a text file while the ...

12. L8r is Future Mail with a Business Model
(Platform as a Service/Solution Watch)

L8r is a new service that lets users create an email and have it delivered at a specific time in the future. It’s similar to the popular site FutureMe where anyone can write a simple letter to themselves ...

13. Adobe Embraces the Cloud - Hazy Days Ahead for Microsoft?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh Yesterday Adobe announced Acrobat.com - a new set of collaborative apps available online that allow users to create and share documents and PDFs, host web meetings and much more. The announcement ...

14. Time to "Free the Airwaves"
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... its field testing and is expected to make a ruling in the coming months. With this in mind, today we're launching Free The Airwaves, a new effort to bring users together around this important issue. To ...

15. Now that’s a Big PaaS Market
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... transactional and transformation work by $30,000 per employee. The opportunity to solve this problem is enormous. There are 500 million licensed users of Office and Notes globally. These ...

16. What Do You Get When You Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... toyed with calling it SalAmaForce3 but didn't really see that flying.) Appirio Cloud Storage [press release] lets Salesforce.com users store more documents and larger size files - such as ...

17. Pownce on Your Friends
(Platform as a Service/Solution Watch)

... enables you to send messages to a single friend, a group of friends, or all Pownce users. Pownce comes in two flavors: Web and Adobe AIR application. We’ll take a look at both, but you’re ...

18. Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... a dictionary. The non-routine, creative solution is to use the query corrections and refinements that other users have made in the past to offer spelling suggestions for new queries. This approach enables ...

19. Traditional CRM vendor fights back by integrating SharePoint, Outlook
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... representatives or others. End users, including mobile users, can also personalize their home pages. As you would expect, Pivotal is highly-integrated with Microsoft Outlook (including calendaring, tasks ...

20. Coventi Pages : Writeboards on Steroids
(Platform as a Service/Solution Watch)

... of your users in this section. You’ll also notice that when you start sharing your pages, a count of revisions done to that pertaining document will appear. You’re able to compare revisions ...