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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What makes it usable Newer applications are using AJAX and Flash, to give the kinds of functionalities we’ve come to expect with desktop applications – so it’s just like having a desktop application with our data – except it’s “in the cloud&# not on our desk. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This post originally appeared on NTEN's blog. 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. New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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Keeping up with the news

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

His most recent post describes an Ajax-based chatroom service you can add to your blog or website with just a few includes. Emily Change is an award-winning web developer, designer, and consultant based in San Francisco. These a real reviews, not just a cataloging of new sties that have come to Brian's attention. Techcrunch.

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The "neigh"sayers take the floor again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. Now, this doesn't mean you should sit smugly with your static website you had a consultant build for you in FrontPage three years ago.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. You should regularly monitor eHub if you want to see what the developers are up to out there. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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