OnDemand Speed Links Nov 27 2008

Lewis Hamilton Becomes Youngest F1 Champion
Will start off this edition of OnDemand Speed Links with a congrats to Lewis Hamilton on winning his first (of many I am sure) Formula 1 Championship earlier this month at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

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Yieldex Chosen As AWS StartUp Challenge Winner

As further evidence that many VC’s are still a step behind market and economic trends, Yieldex was chosen as the winner of the 2008 Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge.

I am surprised that a startup that has developed a solution for managing online advertising (In the middle of a huge economic and online advertising downturn) won the challenge over companies with more pragmatic solutions such as Pixily and Knewton.

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Developer Preview of Force.Com Sites

Salesforce announced last week at its annual Dreamforce user and developer conference in San Francisco Force.com Sites. Force.com Sites is Salesforce’s entry into the burgeoning Cloud Computing arena. Force.com Sites are only available at the moment in a developer preview and are expected to be released to production in calendar year 2009.

Built on Salesforce.coms Visualforce.com platform, Force.com Sites were envisioned as a way for existing Salesforce.com customers to extend their presence and ROI by creating public facing websites and applications. Salesforce benefits due to the fact that these new applications will run on the Visualforce.com platform, thus further expanding Salesforce.com’s revenue stream outside of its core CRM product.

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