Twitter, LinkedIn team up for self-promotion free-for-all
Chalk one up for the cringe-worthy marketing term “personal branding”: there is a new partnership between Twitter, hub for informing the world exactly what you’re doing and thinking at all moments of the day, and LinkedIn, the business-networking tool on steroids. In an announcement Monday, the two companies explained that LinkedIn status messages can sync [...]
Turning Twitter into an application server
As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it’s a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn Twitter into their own application server. The contest asks developers to program the “Worst App Server Technology Ever” (Waste) using [...]
IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud
IBM on Wednesday announced a program designed to help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and better take advantage of collaboration technology in their studies. The IBM Cloud Academy, announced at the Educause annual conference, includes a global roster of educational institutions as initial participants. Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance [...]