Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 30, 2009
I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. 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).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. The SDK will be available later this month.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
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.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. You can also view uplifting visualizations, such as this Google graph of the state's unemployment rate. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 29, 2010
In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re talking about).
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