Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Along with its original crisis mapping work, now called Ushahidi Tracker , Ushahidi has developed new mapping and data management tools.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 8, 2007
Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. 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.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 26, 2008
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.)
Tech Soup
APRIL 19, 2016
Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens of local languages.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
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
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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