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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Finalists were invited to present in person to the NetSquared community at a one-day conference. People in a crisis area could send an SMS (text) message to report an outbreak of violence or other catastrophic conditions.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services. Because data is powerful!

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A Data Picture is Worth More Than 1,000 Words

Connection Cafe

Like most professionals these days, I have to spend a fair amount of my time preparing presentations, to my boss, my colleagues, my clients, etc. I have noticed that, personally, I respond better to the presentations that rely more on the pictures than the words. I think a lot of other people do too, and I wondered why that is.

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. What if you could invite other people from the around the world to have discussions about those images? Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Source for Presentations, Documentation Methods.

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

NTEN

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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

NTEN

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

NTEN

This week, they presented "Technology Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore." Rather, we're talking about those places where data redundancies happen: the five people that have emailed the large spreadsheet to each other, or are saving it all on their desktops. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals.

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