It’s interesting to compare the amount of buzz surrounding two very prominent “web as a platform” companies; Salesforce on one hand and 37signals on the other.

Technorati and Google blogsearch reveal that 37signals seems to be getting more of a buzz in the blog world than Salesforce.

This is notable since Salesforce went public in 2004 and is valued at over 4 billion dollars while 37signals is a small outfit with seven employees.

This is either the Rails effect or 37signals’ customers are more likely to be bloggers.

Another and possibly more reasonable picture emerges with Icerocket’s excellent trend tracker:

By the way: Technorati keeps telling me to “try again in a minute or two” due to a “a high volume of requests”. Does this support Techcrunch’s theory that they are in need of funding?

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