Here are the rest of my Tweets at SDForum Developers’ Conference:
Shaping the New Age of Application Development for the rest of the Friday sessions:
James Staten, Forrester Keynote can be found here
Panel discussion: New Business Models
*Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa, *K.V. Rao, Zuora , *Lisa Rutherford, TwoFish, *Moderated by: Chris Yeh, PBWiki
- Is Enterprise SW dead? Is ..aaS taking over? Yes … and no … “One size does not fit all” Pricing or otherwise #
- Pricing – depends on how the customer wants to buy, 3yr allows Capex for some, monthly for others. Rev share interesting to some #
- Great biz models-Free online soccer gaming as a hook but offer paid w/customized jersey colors. Hook u in on experience then upsell #
- Current attendee count in room 75+ (including videographer 🙂 #
- Is B2C worth pursuing given that Google=Free? Lisa 2Fish says Filterbox is a media filtering svc that she would pay Chkout Smugbug #
Panel discussion: Mobile Platforms
*Adam Blum, Rhomobile, *Eric Klein, Sun Microsystems, *John Loughney, Nokia *Brad Smith, Lift Software *John Yin, Zannel
* Moderated by: Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies
- RT @ChrisCrandell: Mobile apps moving to the edge. Shift fr client side dev to server side that can run anywhere on any device. #
- Eric Klein, Sun says Iphone is not the be all-20M Iphones vs. 1Billion in the word. Says get out of the valley & travel to India #
- John Loughney, Nokia points out that “Facebook and Twitter’s moble services are SMS based” in response to comment on SMS costs #
Keynote Speaker:Leveraging Social Platforms in the Facebook Era
*Clara Shih, Director of Social Networking, salesforce.com and author of the book The Facebook Era
- Clara Shih author of Facebook Era – Facebook is CRM for individuals. She is the creator of Facebook connector for SFDC #
- Stats: Facebook has 200M active users spending 3Billion mins a day. 660,000 developers over 180 countries (that’s alot) #
- Facebookers reading my status via Twitter app sync, shout out to you :-). “Facebook most influential company” Newsweek 12/08 #
- Users Expectations have changed. Due Dilegence expected, Personalized interactions, Transitive Trust #
- Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn listed by Clara .. who is Dir of Social Networking for SFDC by the way … nice job 🙂 #
- Email domain checking prevents you from misrepresenting who you are professionally. Profile “Squatting/highjacking” an issue? #
- Precision marketing w/Hypertargeted Ads in Facebook. When you use FB mktng it narrows by your demo selection. #
Panel discussion: Roles of the Infrastructure in the Cloud
*Hamid Pirahesh, IBM , *Ken Oestreich, Egenera, *Randy Bias, GoGrid,
Moderated by: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
- Ken Oestreich, Egenera DR, Failover for systems has to be managed at the CPU & Network layer, not at the VM layer above #
- RT @jasperk64: Cloud isn’t necessarily virtual, especially the private/on-premise clouds, dbs running on physical iron #
- Audience poll indicates that over 95% of those thinking of using the Cloud intends to outsource it, not build your own internal #
- Ken, Engenera “There are people who want to figure out how to do what Amazon, Facebook etc do w/Cloud” in house #
Panel discussion: Cloud Enabled Applications
*Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs *Praful Shah, Ringcentral, Inc.
*Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry, *George Jaquette, Intacct,
Moderated by: Tim Guleri, Sierra Ventures
- Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry “Running your own data center is undifferentiated muck” #
- Chris Richardson – “Cloud helps you run a clone of your production site, so that you can upgrade risk free” #
- Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs “Use Amazon SQS and S3 because of ease of migration and no fear of lock-in” #
- Tim Guleri Sierra asks panel name most compelling app: 1 vote for Facebook, 2.5 for Google, 0.5 for SFDC. #
- Tim Guleri “God didn’t create world in 7 he lazed around for 6 days .. then pulled an all nighter” – Analogy that Cloud computing offers similar rapid deployment possibilites #
Panel discussion: Venture Investments
*Jon Teo, Benchmark (ex-Google), *Lars Leckie, Hummer Winblad, *Pasanna Krishnan, Draper Fisher Jurveston, *Kevin Efrusy, Accel
Moderated by: Christine Crandell, Egenera
- Christine Crandell moderates VC panel asks “What’s hot for funding right now?” #
- Lars Leckie , Hummer “Big Analytics”, Jon Teo, Benchmark “Enterprise Apps” (especially w/Cloud), Prasanna,Draper “Cloud, Cleantec” #
- Christine, Egenera “New Cloud App Dev Tools?”. Kevin, Accel “App Dev tools is a lousy business. Services are the better way to go” #
- Lars, Hummer “We like the tools business. Mitchell at Hummer started Powersoft” shout out to Mitchell #
- Kevin, Accel “Open source is not development, but helps you become the standard via S&M” honey bee analogy Community polinates #
- Prasanna, Draper “Open source is a way of trying out your apps, taping into a labor pool” #
- Kevin, Accel “RDBMS is good for exact record matches, but perfect coherence is not required for the types of content today (e.g. FB content)” #