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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. at 2:23 pm Hi, thanks for the mention of Gliffy in your writeup.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. What’s to lose?

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Meet Michael Stein 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you read my blog entries here and here , I have an ambivalence about how important some of these developments are for non-profits at the moment. Everyone knows the nuisance of emailing around a doc and then having to collate everyone's edits. Why are you interested in Web 2.0 and nonprofits? While Web 2.0

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