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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. read more.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . are being developed at a rapid pace. like delicious.com.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

Anyone who has ever written an AJAX application will likely agree that while it makes sense from a security perspective, the "same origin policy" is the root of all evil. 4) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancements. ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). You're welcome.

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

Care2

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. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us 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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