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APRIL 9, 2009

Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Thanks to the generosity of Google, we’re delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one! Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal. CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences? Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project. Creative Commons And Open Content.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

(And from that link, you can see that Google acquired the company behind it, so some of that technology has made it into Google apps – but you can still get the EtherPad code.). 5) BuddyPress: BuddyPress is a plug-in that adds features to a WordPress MU site ( multi site ), such as profiles, groups, friending, etc.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It can handle quite the long list of chat protocols: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC , SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin - Affordable Web Developer - Just another WordPress weblog on Affordable open source web development.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It blocks banner ads, Google adsense ads, stupid dancing aliens for mortgages, etc. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. This is the best thing since sliced bread. I love it. Plus, pages load faster without ads.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

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. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

They have increasing competition from OpenOffice.org, Google Apps, and, on the Mac, iWork. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard. Microsoft is in an interesting place with their cash cow, Office. I’ll keep you posted. {

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AUGUST 5, 2008

RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. 2 Jack 08.07.08

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc.

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MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out. Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0

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MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out. Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0

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JANUARY 3, 2008

I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day. And, because it’s in the Mozilla family, it has a plug in architecture which can add some really neat features.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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APRIL 18, 2007

Google is a little vague about the fact that when you invite someone to a spreadsheet they’ll need a Google Account. That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop. So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

That why the “walled gardens” are great to have, it protects your privacy so when someone google’s you they wont pull up any inappropriate material that you’ve posted. Apps like Wordpress are far more straightforward than they used to be – so perhaps we’re not so far off? 2 admin 08.08.07

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

And, if Facebook offered in-kind donations of ads – similar to Google, I’m sure that nonprofits would flock to it. The privacy issues are a concern, but the bigger issue is answering the strategy questions first – that Owyang lays out. Is Facebook the right network for you.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 2 Brian 11.23.07 at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

land are either using iCal, or integrating with Google Calendar (my present calendaring software). I can’t change a basecamp milestone in Google Cal, I have to go back to that particular basecamp account to change it. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 So that’s good.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Choosing Apple will always be like choosing ask.com over google because ask.com has a ‘prettier’ interface. The main draw to Apple for consumers will always be industrial design – A pocket PC does more than an iPhone, it just doesn’t look as good doing it. 2 DeathMonkey 10.10.07 at 2:16 pm I like you PW.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. 4 Ade 12.18.07 The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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JULY 9, 2007

Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. Linux has server market (check) Linux is working on the browser market (checK) Linux has apps that work for addresses and also integreates with other apps well (BUZZ!

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

This is not uniformly true – some SaaS vendors give back in a variety of ways – contributing code back to those projects, having their own programs to give back in some way or another (like Google Open Source, or Salesforce.org) Bur in any event, SaaS based on proprietary software violates the basic software freedoms – you can’t (..)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? In some ways, I use social bookmarking tools like listible as a more directed google (I’ve yet to create any lists). It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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