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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. What’s to lose?

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us 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. { I think Web 2.0,

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