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Mark Mangano is the author of Sales Force Watch, the top blog for independent Sales Force News, and Scott Hemmeter is the author of the Perspectives on Salesforce blog and also a successful Salesforce consultant.

I was at the Dreamforce ‘06 Conference investigating AppExchange, Saleforce.com’s 3rd party development and distribution platform because I was curious about opportunities for lone consultants and very small companies to produce software for the business web.

Scott and Mark were kind enough to talk to me about how many of the barriers to entry have dropped and how easy it is to get started in this world.

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Todd Harrison is a redneck engineer. Veronica Harrison is an eighth grade robotics and electronics hacker. They teamed up to add heat exchange coils to a gas grill in order to heat their swimming pool. The best part is that their contraption breaks back down to regular grill in minutes so that they can serve burgers at the requisite pool party.

More interviews on my Tech Luminaries podcast.

John Davi, Communications Director of CalCars.org, talks about the challenges of getting manufacturers to produce plug-in hybrids, cars that run 100% electric for local travel but still have unlimited gasoline range. I caught up with him at Maker Faire while he was making a documentary on how to do your own plug-in hybrid Prius conversion.

More interviews in my Cornered Tech Luminaries podcast

Dorrian gave all of the makers at Maker Faire informational text-message spaces. Try texting ‘maker143’ to 66937.

He’s recreated the domain name business but in SMS, so obviously he’s a genious. He gave me a few minutes to explain his company Mozes and to talk about Maker Faire.

More info: www.mozes.com