New Jersey will let citizens displaced by Hurricane Sandy vote by email or fax (The Verge)

In Sandy’s Aftermath, Epic Challenges for Data Centers (Data Center Knowledge)

This Exec Has An Outrageous Plan To Make SAP Bigger In Mobile Than Apple (SAI:Enterprise)

SAP Business ByDesign Hits Milestone in Market Momentum (Lars Dalgaard/SAP Community Network)
Not too specific on ByDesign progress.

Twitter kills my RSS twitter feed

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As part of its ceaseless war against RSS, Twitter has apparently killed off the format
I was using to deliver an RSS feed of my twitter stream. For those of you who were subscribers, I am looking for a way to replace it. Any suggestions, let me know.

Saturday Highlights 11/3/2012: SAP's plans for Ariba, Social

SAP’s Marketplace Dream (New York Times: Bits)

SAP Goes Social (Michael Fauscette/Enterprise Irregulars)

SAP Restarts Its Usability Efforts With Start-Up Spirit (ASUG News)

Telling the First Round Capital story... (Redeye VC)

Ben Franklin Tech Partners hosts 54-hour event (Lehigh Valley Business)

Daily Links 11/2/2012: Modest crowds for iPad mini release in Philly

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Modest crowds greet iPad mini's release (Macworld)

Sandy exposes gaps in wireless system during emergency
(Washington Post: Post Tech)


Verizon, Cablevision Race to Repair Networks as Outages Linger (Bloomberg)

Comcast Joins Cablevision in Offering Credits After Sandy (Bloomberg)

With 600 Clients, Curalate Launches Pinterest Contest and Promotions Tool (BetaKit)

TIBCO Software and Siemens Healthcare Expand Strategic Alliance (Marketwire)

Readying for 'The Facebook of the Enterprise' (Insider Learning Network)

Salesforce.com Competitor SugarCRM May Shoot for IPO in 2013 (Bloomberg)

CableLabs Sets Its Sights on Silicon Valley (Light Reading Cable)

Trail Blazers to stream Comcast games (Portland Business Journal)

Of Philadelphia talent venturing to New York (Peter Key/Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 11/1/2012: First Round Capital adds partner, capital; more enterprise, hardware?

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First Round Capital Adds Former LiveOps CEO Bill Trenchard As Partner; Raises Over $20M More (TechCrunch)

First Round gets a new partner, jumps into enterprise and hardware (PandoDaily)

Welcoming Bill Trenchard (Redeye VC)

Newly-Minted Billionaire Is Spinning eBay Scraps Into Gold (Forbes)
On Kynetics LLC's Michael Rubin.

FCC: Cable Outages Drop to 12%-14%
Commission Says Getting Fuel to Generators is Priority (Multichannel News)

SAP goes after Salesforce.com with new social software products, strategy
SAP Jam links software acquired with SuccessFactors to SAP's StreamWork (Computerworld UK)

JDA Software to go private in $1.9 billion deal (Reuters)

SunGard: A Day In the Cloud Documentary (Video/ChannelPartner
Online.com)
PR-ish, but worth a look. Inside view of SunGard Availability's Spring Garden Street
operations center, and explanation of its Cloud strategy.

SunGard Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)
Shrink management expert experiences continued shrinkage.

Heartland Payments rises on 3Q, stronger guidance (AP via NBCNews)

Monetate Growth Continues to Surge Driven by Online Marketers' Demand for Real-Time Personalization (Marketwire)

Netflix: Thanks For the Advice, Carl (Peter Kafka/All Things D)



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PhillyForce/Philly SaaS Meetup on November 5 features IDC's Michael Fauscette

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PhillyForce, the Philadelphia area user group for the Salesforce.com, Force.com, and Database.com community organized by Ami Assayag @amiassayag and Matthew Botos @BotosCloud, in combination with Philly SaaS (organized by Chris Allan @chrisallan), have a real headliner for their Monday, November 5 meetup (6 pm at LiquidHub in Wayne). The presenter will be industry analyst Michael Fauscette, Group Vice President, Software Business Solutions at IDC. His subject will be "Moving from CRM to Customer Experience; How social, mobile, cloud and big data are changing the way companies interact and engage customers".

Michael Fauscette

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Fauscette held senior consulting and services roles with seven software vendors including Autodesk, Inc., PeopleSoft, Inc. and MRO, Inc. You can follow his blog here, or follow him on Twitter @mfauscette. Although he has a broad background in enterprise software, his emphasis lately has been on social applications in the enterprise cloud environment.

Food and drink is being sponsored by the hosts at LiquidHub, and there will be time for informal networking before and after the talk.

Another big event for Salesforce.com fans to put on their calendar is Cloudforce Essentials Philadelphia 2013, to be held on January 15, 2013 at the The Hyatt at The Bellevue.

Update: Here is the first part of a video from Michael Fauscette's presentation at the PhillyForce/Philly SaaS meetup on November 5. Also the slide deck from the
presentation is available here (pdf).


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Daily Links 10/31/2012: Storm aftermath on data centers, telecom, Fisker

Generators Keep NJ Data Centers Humming (Data Center Knowledge)

Sandy downed 25 percent of cell masts, says FCC (ZDNet)

Comcast offers free Wi-Fi service to all in Sandy's path (CNET News)


Here’s what the Internet looked like on the East Coast during Sandy (Gigaom)

At Least 16 Fisker Karmas Drown, Catch Fire at New Jersey Port (Wired)

Here's SAP's Latest Challenge To Marc Benioff (SAI: Enterprise)

CMO Close-Up with Jonathan Becher, CMO at SAP (BtoB Magazine)

Netflix shares surge as Icahn takes 10% stake (CNNMoney)

Walmart to Sell Boxee’s Internet DVR (Multichannel News)

CSG touts deployments with Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable (FierceCable)



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Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (10/22/2012 to 10/28/2012)

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I profiled Ben Franklin Technology Partners Northeastern Pennsylvania's expanded TechVentures incubator, which is scheduled to host the first Lehigh Valley Startup Weekend this coming weekend (November 2-4); the power is back on there today.

Comcast posted strong 3rd quarter results on Friday boosted in part by the Olympics, but management is hopeful that there are signs that a longer-term turnaround is beginning at NBCU.

The 2012 Philadephia 100 was named and honored at a ceremony on Wednesday evening;
Dynamic Defense Materials LLC was ranked #1, WebiMax #2.

In news from other sources, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced a new seed fund, Startup PHL, which will seek to leverage $3 million coming from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp with a $3 million match from a fund manager to be selected; there will also be a $500,000 "idea fund".

Safeguard Scientifics announced CFO Stephen T. Zarrilli would succeed Peter Boni as CEO at the beginning of November. SAP raised it's full year revenue outlook after reporting third-quarter software license revenue that beat analyst estimates. There was another outage at Amazon Web Services' Northern Virginia data center, impacting some Philly firms, this one apparently caused by a memory leak and failure of a monitoring alarm system.

Quote of the week: NBCU CEO Steve Burke: "Unfortunately we don’t own any television station in Ohio".


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Daily Links 10/30/2012: Washington Post profiles Comcast's Cohen and his power in DC

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David Cohen may be Comcast’s secret weapon, but in D.C. he’s a wonk rock star
(Washington Post)

Mark Cuban: Apple Is Not Out To Kill Cable Companies (Silicon Alley Insider)

Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast US telecom networks
(Reuters)

U.S. cell networks 'assessing' Sandy outages: No fixes soon
(ZDNet)

Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP
His departure had been anticipated now that the integration of Sybase into SAP is complete (Computerworld)

IBM, Epicor could be among potential JDA acquirers
The supply-chain software vendor is reportedly putting itself up for sale (Computerworld)


Pentaho shifts focus from business intelligence to “big data”, nabs $23M (VentureBeat)
A QlikTech competitor.


AmerisourceBergen says still delivering drugs during hurricane (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Aramark spins off remaining stake in Seamless to its shareholders

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Philly-based food service giant Aramark announced today that it had spun off its remaining stake in New York-based Seamless (originally SeamlessWeb), the online food ordering pioneer, to Aramark shareholders. Aramark acquired Seamless in 2006. Early investors included the Conshohocken-based VC firm now known as Artists & Instigators.

Last year Aramark sold what it described as a minority stake in Seamless to Spectrum Equity for $50 million and relinquished operating control.

Jason Finger, who founded Seamless in 1999, left the company in 2010. Earlier this year he joined IAC as CEO of its CityGrid Media unit (which by the way includes UrbanSpoon).

This interview with Finger from 2009 recounts the history of Seamless.



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Daily Links 10/29/2012: Major Data Centers in Northeast Brace for Sandy

Major Data Centers in Northeast Brace for Sandy (Data Center Knowledge)

Hurricane Sandy vs. The Internet: What's In The Path Of Frankenstorm (ReadWriteCloud)

Sandy takes out Gawker, Huffpo other sites (Gigaom)

Quality Systems 2Q results miss Wall Street's view (AP via Business Week)
Quality Systems' primary business is Horsham-based NextGen Healthcare.

Amazon sues former Amazon Web Services sales chief over his new job at Google (GeekWire)

Is Salesforce the new Oracle? Does it matter? (Phil Wainewright/Enterprise Irregulars)

Philadelphia region loses longtime game developer
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
Entertainment Games Inc. makes logical transition from PC games to mining, moves HQ to Arizona.

ARAMARK to Spin-off Interest in Seamless (PR Newswire)

Philadelphia Startup Real Food Works Launches Subscription Program for Healthy Eating (PR Web)




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