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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. And what would you describe as the social definition of Social Actions API – the purpose? The Social Actions API now uses a tool called Zemanta to apply these processes when searching the actions contained in the dataset.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Mashups make me want to sing! The field of Business Intelligence (BI) is growing by leaps and bounds as technology tools make getting, combining, and visualizing data easier than ever before. Even though you DON'T have to buy expensive tools if your needs are fairly simple, it will cost you in staff time. Definitions.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Sparkâ„¢ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! We can help you with that.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Sparkâ„¢ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! We can help you with that.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Definitely.

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Turn off the refresh of your RSS reader and no new content - that's pull by my definition. A mashup isn't cool just because it uses data from different services - does the service provide real value? Most of the things I see listed as Web 2.0

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