A couple of weeks ago, Business Insider posted a story on how startups are ignoring a $500 Billion market. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Jim Goetz, a venture capitalist for Sequoia Capital was quoted as saying:
"It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise,"
To that end, I'm happy to announce that IBM will be sponsoring a Social Business App Dev Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to get application developers, partners, and ISVs up to speed on how to develop apps for IBM's social business platform, currently the #1 in market share world wide.
I've shared before how to build apps for IBM Connections and with IBM now fully behind OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms we thought it would be a good idea to bring developers together and get them ramped up very quickly.
We also published an article yesterday to help guide developers on how to create OpenSocial gadgets for IBM Connections 4.0. As a developer this presents a good opportunity as OpenSocial gadgets would run in multiple places, not just in IBM's OpenSocial container.
Here's a couple of highlights from the event:
- Learn about the social platform using the common language of the web developer - HTML and JavaScript.
- Hands-on lab exercises will cover such topics as IBM’s new SDK for web developers, ICS containers, and cloud integration.
- Leave aware of how to tap the expertise of the community, and engage further to continue building skills with Social Application Development.
- Learn how to build an embedded experience that integrates with IBM Connections 4 using OpenSocial gadgets.
So if you don't want to miss on a $500 Billion market, register for the workshop here.