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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

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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. Here are some tips to keep in mind: .

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CommunityOne West and JavaOne: Free Event in San Francisco for Open Source Developers and Other Techies for Good

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Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools. CommunityOne is sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

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New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. professional learn about -- and selectively embrace -- new technologies, when it's hard to keep basic systems running? This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] .

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.