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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. This is big.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

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Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. The tech to connect Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell, email, addresses and other PID is here -- and it improves by the day. As DoSomething.org’s CTO, George manages all online and mobile communication systems for DoSomething.org.

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