Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Like Google buying YouTube , or Yahoo buying flickr. There are certainly some examples where it is true. In those situations, generally, the product remains largely the same (with some branding changes over time.)