Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved. refers to several new approaches to web application development that use tools your browser has been supporting all along, but use them in new ways. This is just what Ajax means to change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. So why all this hype if the technology is not really all that brand new? is as stale as Y2K".

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AJAX Technique Mashup Hype 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

applications every day. But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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