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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. Did you know that San Francisco renters are seven times more likely to get buyout offers than eviction notices? No Place Like Home. Referral Services. The project was created by the St.

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CrowdConf 2010 Coming to San Francisco

Tech Soup

CrowdFlower has announced CrowdConf 2010 , a crowdsourcing conference that will take place in San Francisco in October. Tags: Event Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Presentation submissions are being accepted through next Wednesday, September 1. ( We've talked a lot on this blog about crowdsourcing.

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SF nonprofit expands tech lab for homeless and poor Tenderloin residents | Other News | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner

AFP Blog

SF nonprofit expands tech lab for homeless and poor Tenderloin residents | Other News | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner : "The first year the St.

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Sun Microsystems and San Francisco's McKinley Elementary School

Tech Soup

Sun Microsystems, a partner of TechSoup Global, recently embarked on a local donation project to address this at one elementary school in San Francisco. McKinley Elementary is a K-5 public school with about 300 students in the Duboce Park district of San Francisco.

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Google Maps Dirty Trick or Malfunctioning "Feature?"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm going to the Internet Archive's new office at 300 Funston in San Francisco, to attend the Books in Browsers conference. Not really knowing all of San Francisco's streets, I got out and recognized the old location of the Internet Archive. That works!

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11 Nonprofit Websites That Look Great on iPads

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Do you attempt to create one website that looks good on desktops and laptops, tablets, Internet TVs, and smartphones using responsive Web design – or have multiple websites to accommodate viewing on different devices? San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :: sfmoma.org. WildAid :: wildaid.org.

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Do Keywords Still Make a Difference in Effective Website Search Management?

Byte Technology

Many web marketers still hold that they’re invaluable for gauging the health of your site’s rankings; others point to the fact there are now so many other optimization elements employed by search engines that keywords have become useless and should be consigned to the dustbin of Internet history. Placement Over Frequency.

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