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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. Up until now, web applications have required you to take turns.

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Keeping up with the news

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. In addition to telling us about the applications, he follows their fortunes in the trade press and blogosphere.

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

applications every day. in terms of their positive impact. 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 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 At this point, I use Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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