- The startup framework to validate your idea before you spend $1 — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium https://t.co/1RoUHgOrJ2 06:33:23, 2015-10-27
- 3 Geeks and a Law Blog: Stop the AI madness! https://t.co/ETHE3oFDGb 07:53:45, 2015-10-27
- Clean up your Droid’s act for free with the first-rate Droid Optimizer – TechRepublic https://t.co/w4CEgLvh3R 07:57:40, 2015-10-27
- Stackedit is a full featured markdown editor that will run in browser. https://t.co/yLpL8uSnia 08:07:56, 2015-10-27
- Online Course Report lists 50 most popular MOOCs of all time https://t.co/kRECNZqg7Q 10:15:23, 2015-10-27
- Why is design in open source projects often ugly? https://t.co/6vHG7L7JMN 11:38:51, 2015-10-27
- RT @AcquiaDev: Powerful Ways to Extend and Develop Drupal 8, based on a @mediacurrent project. In the Acquia Developer Center https://t.co/… 14:23:33, 2015-10-27
- My Twitter Digest for 10/26/2015 https://t.co/3wopWtecZA 15:30:16, 2015-10-27
- New York Bar Exam Pass Rate Hits Historic Low https://t.co/CQ0TNqYoSz via @WSJ 17:43:31, 2015-10-27
3rd Hackcess to Justice hackathon winners include app built on #Drupal8
After two days of brainstorming and collaboration in North Carolina’s capital city, lawyers, students and coders developed legal apps to aid farm workers, streamline legal aid cases and evaluate legal
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The $500 third place prize went to Michael Silverman, a developer. His submission of a Legal Aid eligibility test is intended to provide a simple, easy to use, mobile friendly interface that allows individuals to learn if they are eligible for legal aid by answering a few questions. Silverman plans to continue to work on the app to be accessible through voice prompts which will be translatable to different languages.
Source: App to aid migrant workers wins 3rd Hackcess to Justice hackathon :: ABA Journal
That third place prize went to an app built on Drupal 8 as a custom module. That’s pretty cool. All of the projects worked on are on the Hackcess To Justice submission page.
IBM is reportedly going to buy Weather Company’s digital assets
International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is nearing an agreement to buy the Weather Company’s digital assets in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Source: IBM nears deal to buy Weather Company’s digital assets: source :: Reuters
The Weather Company’s digital assets include weather.com, the Weather Underground, and a bunch of platform apps. The weather.com website is generally considered one of the largest Drupal powered sites in the world.
This seems lit a bit of an odd move for IBM since it looks like a content play. Big Blue is more likely after the data that drives the digital properties and the talent pool it brings.