I've been invited to speak alongside Ron Hess at salesforce.com's Dreamforce event in San Francisco next month about my experiences integrating Salesforce and other AppExchange applications with Google using the GData API. Here are the details:
Session Title: Business Mashups: Best of the Web APIs
Track: New AppExchange Developer
Date and Time: 10/11/2006 9:00 AM
Session Description: AppExchange has always been a powerful platform for creating mashups, and the new platform features make it more capable than ever mixing Internet services. This session will provide an introduction to some of the more popular Web APIs, including API's from Google and Yahoo, and show how they can be leveraged inside of your AppExchange apps. Presentations will include sample code showing demonstrating these services, as well as example mashups.
The combination of the AppExchange API and GData provides an incredibly powerful platform for creating applications that harness the best of what salesforce.com calls The Business Web. I hope to see you at the show.
Can't wait to see it, Charlie, and to hopefully meet up at Dreamforce...
Posted by: Chris | September 13, 2006 at 11:25 AM
If ashups are so important to Salesforce.com and AppExchange, why the hell doesn't Salesforce.com open up their API to all their customers instead of limiting it to only Enterprise and Univeral customers (or Professional customers who use an 3rd party add-in)?!?!? Or are the Professional Edition and Team Edition just bait and switch even though small companies probably can't afford the Enterprise version?
Maybe you can talk some sense into them when you are out there...
Posted by: Mike Schinkel | October 02, 2006 at 09:30 PM
Mike,
I agree that Salesforce would be well-served to open up API access to all of their customers, and will continue to encourage them to do so.
-Charlie
Posted by: Charlie Wood | October 03, 2006 at 06:02 AM