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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. See you in Oxford, Peter Deitz, Romina Oliverio, Rolf Kleef, Amy Sample Ward. Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge. Brainstorm opportunities for online campaigners. This afternoon’s event is free to attend !Please

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

Tech Soup

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). One sample session was the one on the Google Book Settlement, led by Pam Samuelson of UC Berkeley.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters. One tactic is going online.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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