I’m the founder and Chief Product Officer at Bunchball, and wanted to respond to your comments.

1. Tom: Not even Photoshop – Microsoft Paint I assure you that the screens are real, and we’ll be demoing them live at Dreamforce on Tuesday August 30th at 5pm PST, and then in our booth during the entire conference. We (meaning I) was putting together screenshots for the press late the night before we announced this, realized I’d messed up a few, and so stitched the Profile and Team Standings page into my existing Opportunity screenshot. You’re correct that the tab that should be highlighted on the Profile page and the Team Standings page is the “Nitro” one on the far right. I made one other screw up but I can’t remember what it is right now. I’m sure you’ll tell me

2. Mike: We didn’t remove anything from the Opportunity Page. The “Create New” and “Recent Items” sidebar modules are below ours, you just can’t see them in the screenshot. The SF Administrator can order the sidebar modules any way they want – for the purposes of our screenshot, we put ours on top.

3. Mike: We’ve been using Salesforce ourselves for 4 years, so are very familiar with it. And the market disagrees with you. Sales managers are looking for ways to drive adoption, engagement, and performance, and have been using things like contests and SPIFs for years. Nitro for Salesforce provides a much more powerful engine for motivating sales staff. Of the final 4 contestants in AppQuest this year (best new Salesforce application), two are focused on using game mechanics to motivate employees: http://developer.force.com/appquest11

best, – rajat

As a rep that uses salesforce, I would raise absolute hell if someone tried to implement this gimmicky app. Seriously, how much productivity and efficiency would be lost without these two function?

It is painfully obvious the people developing this product have absolutely no knowledge of sales or sales force.