Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. To make a long story really short, an Ajax application uses JavaScript to get data from the server whenever it is needed, without requiring the browser to redraw the entire page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. at 6:04 pm » Blog Archive » Convio Jumps on the Open API Bandwagon 10.17.07 Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 10, 2006

Take a look: you'll find that the program has a nice, crisp responsiveness unusual in a web app, showing off the Google development team's expertise with Ajax. I agree - while Google released a very nice Ajax spreadsheet today, they didn't exactly change the world. Last week Google announced their new Spreadsheets offering.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies." Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 2, 2006

Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. This blog's name is very appealing: Help Desk when Help Desk wasn't Cool. Bitter help desk survivor writes cheesy blog " reads the subtitle. The Net-admin's Corner.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

For example, I enjoy following the discussion in EDS's Next Big Thing blog. Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It was really hard to try and write new applications building on a framework I’d written a while ago, while simultaneously improving that framework, and keeping up with new things such as Ajax and RSS, mostly by myself. Thanks for blogging. at 6:40 am I just read on a blog about web2.0 2 Michelle Murrain 04.18.07

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

And its not just making waves among industry pundits following Yahoo's twists and turns - it's big news for developers who want to use new approaches to web applications - like Ajax - without spending - or charging - a fortune to build or buy code to do it. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

His most recent post describes an Ajax-based chatroom service you can add to your blog or website with just a few includes. Currently claiming 17,150 subscribers to its RSS feed, this blog's mision statement tells us it is " dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 Techcrunch. products and companies.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

because Jeffrey Zeldman said it so well in his A List Apart blog last month. But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. So let's beat that dead horse one more time. You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0 That old debate.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

So we've just started developing an Ajax -based web calendar that can take its information from a variety of different sources, and allow authorized users to edit the calendars over the web. I see Ajax emerging as a very important tool that will help both non-profits and businesses build more responsive and active public websites.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

A recent offering, for example, describes a method for building a tabbed notebook with CSS, and then using a simple Ajax-y technique to load each page of the notebook as it is opened with content laid out in another html file. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

If you read my blog entries here and here , I have an ambivalence about how important some of these developments are for non-profits at the moment. programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately. So I dropped him a note. Why are you interested in Web 2.0 and nonprofits?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example. These are the bread and butter issues facing non-profits and associations, and most of them realize they can still improve significantly in all of these areas.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. SH: To begin leveraging the APIs you will need in-house developer resources that are familiar with common Web technologies such as HTML, forms, Java, Ajax, PHP, XML. If youve ever used My Yahoo! Also, APIs are great, but you still have to prioritize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

at 6:56 pm Top 10 blog posts of 2008 :: Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.26.08 For pagination I understand you can have multiple paginators per page with ajax but from what I’ve seen the whole system asumes you’ll be paginating one thing at a time so it’s more of a workaround than anything else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Part I September 9, 2006 I liked doing the Intellectual Property series in the earlier incarnation of this blog. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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