AlwaysOn: Benioff Keynote

Salesforce's Marc Benioff (after determining that 60% of the audience used Yahoo!, Gmail, etc. for their personal email but still Outlook, etc. at work), on Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, and other commonly used enterprise email platforms: "It's the worst piece of technology in the whole industry!" Oh wow, I had no idea this was out there: Gmail for your domain. (Note it's on a secure server.)

Discussing various key aspects of Web services/software as a service*:

• Transparency: see trust.salesforce.com [Update:] In the later related panel: "At Oracle we didn't have a 'trust' page — we had an F.U. page! [audience laughs] I'm not kidding!!"


• Mashups: see Bikramfinder (a Salesforce client)

*[Update:] Dan Farber captured all 10 factors.

MySpace, WhoseStuff

• Marty Schwimmer: "[T]hat a policing 'bot (or human supervision thereof) should be empowered to take down the site for 40 hours - that's of some concern."


• Ed.: "Raff may be breaking new ground for lawyers, riffing on MySpace, but as bloggers of his generation go he's not atypical." And the corollary: "Good thing he knows his way around Internet law."

More WLB Discussion

• Bruce Boyden: "[T]his interesting article (sub. req.) appeared in the New York Law Journal..."


• Hastings' Project for Attorney Retention (PAR): "We're revamping 'The Scoop' — a treasure trove of information about what it is really like to work a flexible schedule at particular firms."


• Justin Patten: "[W]ith some exceptions[,] cutting-edge creative lawyers DO NOT have a place in mainstream law firms."

In Blawg Review #67 David Fischer also thought these were worth checking out, and has more.

Gamut, Janet

Jeneane Sessum sends word of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Women make themselves heard through blogs, on women, blogging, and BlogHer (later this week). It's a nice piece that aptly highlights Jeneane's seminal role and contributions to the blogging community.

Google Business Card

This is the first event I've been to in years (maybe ever) where I'm not toting business cards. The oral alternative seems to work just fine: "Google my first name, I'm the one who was never married to Charlie Sheen."