In case you haven’t heard we announced CardLasso back in November of last year.  We have had a lot of interest and received some great feedback since it was shown in the Dreamforce keynote by Adam Gross, namely:

• This is great, but I don’t have an iPhone
• Could I use this for Tradeshows?
• Do you have any Corporate plan options

I’m glad to say that we have now implemented each of the above suggestions and they are either live in Lasso, or are currently in beta.  

Card Entry via Web Cam
If you don’t have an iPhone you can enter cards directly from your laptop or PC with an attached USB Web Cam.  This option allows for high-volume card entry and doesn’t require a proprietary scanner (such as CardScan).  

Other Mobile Phones
We also have a new mobile offering that will allow you to enter cards from ANY mobile phone (including Blackberries which you have all asked about).  This approach will work with any phone that allows you to take a picture and send an email.

Native Blackberry Client
We are also developing a native Blackberry client to have even tighter integration with this platform, so if you are excited about the new Blackberry Storm you got for Christmas, stay tuned.

Lasso Offline for Tradeshows
If you are in marketing and go to tradeshows, you know the pain of entering hundreds or thousands of business cards.  We utilized our 2Go mobile platform and built a special offline version of Lasso that allows you to rapidly capture pictures of cards using a web cam in an offline mode and then they can be uploaded for transcription once you have Internet connectivity.

We are very excited about Lasso and it is a great showcase of what can be done with force.com Sites.

If you are interested head over to http://www.lasso2go.com to sign up for a $1.99 trial to give this a spin.
 

So it’s post Dreamforce 08 — awesome.  Love DF, love getting home from DF. 

On the flight, I noticed something interesting: if you cruise into Eclipse, the plugins directory, where you have the Force.com IDE, you’ll see a "com.salesforce.ide.documentation.[a bunch of numbers]".  If you look in there, you’ll see a directory called "platform_labs", and if you look in there you’ll see a fair amount of info re: Force.com Sites.

All of which was released on 10/27/2008, several days before THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

Note to self: look for hidden goodies in the next release of the IDE.