Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. I’m hoping that Spock ends up in the dead pool , but who knows. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

of them have open APIs (that is, they allow other software to interact with them, and grab data, or add data,) they aren’t really interoperable (see Marshall Kirkpatricks excellent post on issues regarding Yahoo and del.icio.us and other of it’s acquisitions – adding another good reason to switch away from del.icio.us.)

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Probably middle of 2008. As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yahoo Pipes: You can create your own monitoring tools using Yahoo Pipes which lets you quickly set up your own RSS tracking, complete with filters. May 22, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Online Marketing , Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Here’s what Yahoo! One thing I have learned about the Internet is the persistence of information. Once it goes up, it’s up. Once it goes up, it’s up. A fun thing to do is to go to the Internet Archive’s “ Way Back Machine &# which has 85 billion web pages archived from 1996.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and insights when I present the paper at the World Social Marketing Conference in Brighton, England this upcoming September 2008. What influences you in the actions you take?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." My email signature (which I use when posting personal questions and comments on autism-related Yahoo groups) includes all of these channels as well. Is there a risk involved with this? Emphatically, yes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Hard Data Points: Do an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. Users have been impatient and frustrated with Google’s lack of urgency in handling what used to be a mobile, customer-focused service." He points to this post by Duncan Riley from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google (and Yahoo too!). May 19, 2010 | Brenda Johnson Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This doesnt mean you have to skimp on styling your menus. Cascading Style-Sheets (CSS) and a little bit of javascript are all you need to build sophisticated menu systems. Thanks tons for sharing this info.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

This could prove highly disruptive to other video-hosting platforms such as Brightcove, Maven Networks (now part of Yahoo), and Move Networks. Facebook is a platform — meaning, you can develop your own applications on top of their functionality. YouTube is now a platform. It is offering video-hosting for free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

If youve ever used My Yahoo! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Like Google buying YouTube , or Yahoo buying flickr. The first is to acquire a company that does something that you do not. In those situations, generally, the product remains largely the same (with some branding changes over time.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Yahoo and Microsoft have Google Envy. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) I like it. Anyone for "Nonprofit Reader"? Is this news? {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. Recently, Chris Brogan did an analysis of most linked to content using Yahoo Site Explorer and while it isn't clear whether it includes links to yourself it sparked an insight for me that different blog posts might have different objectives.

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See3

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

And so Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo! Microsoft is the old school now and Yahoo! I am hopeful that Yahoo! In their negotiations, Yahoo!’s How to Negotiate – Tips for Yahoo! I am a big believer in&# cloud computing &# or “ software as a service &# or whatever you want to call it. Mostly, yes.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. Yahoo has a great embed tool that doesn’t require any flash code, etc. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast! Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast. Chad: baudcast. We’re live… ! Who is your audience? existing and target.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. The Big UN Report on Climate Change.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Getting the memberships to use them can be a challenge and adding a ning.com community site enhancement and an IM tool like skype or yahoo so that members can shop together can enable non-profits to direct their memberships and orchestrate them to use the shopping portal. All rights reserved.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. Every time you post a photo on Flickr, you give its owner, Yahoo!, With no further ado, enjoy this post.

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