Over the course of my trip to New York City this weekend, I realized exactly how valuable my iPhone is. went online on my iPhone, looked up the nearest 24 hour gym in their network, and copied and pasted the address into the Google Maps application. It has a GPS to tell you where you are. In about 2 minutes, I was on my way.

Not totally true - there exist Firefox plugins that will expand them for you - but it is true for most users.)  From a shortened url, you can’t tell whether the destination is the New York Times, a non-profit, a personal blog, or something far less reputable.  They are run on websites with names like bit.ly Period. 

Dan Schwabel's  5 Free Tools For Reputation Management introduced me to a new listening tool, backtype.  New York Times via Ed Philp ,??? a comment and discussion plugin for websites, blogs, or applications. 0160; It solves the problem of monitoring blog comments where people specifically mention you. 

million (roughly the operating income of six medium size homelessness organizations in New York City) off of our sector in 2006 because we had crappy proprietary systems and they’ll continue to make even more money because we switched to them. 4) Yahoo! Yet, consulting services now represent 60% of that revenue line item? Thanks!

Om Malik has a bigger picture view of the new announcements here. The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. Oh, the details! No expense was spared, and lots of open bars. Like a solution in search of a problem.

Then there are our projects and I don’t think they’re fully visible from a new person’s perspective. Jason, our lead developer created a plugins functionality for our API. One of the things we’ll be doing in July is building plugins for the All for Good API, Kiva API, GlobalGiving API, etc. Participants. Jason Mott. Ehren Foss.