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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

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. This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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

NTEN

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services. Server-side Platforms - SOA, tools, application severs, and databases.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

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. ] . New applications and technologies.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

It's very useful to step back and take a look at what the non-profits we work with have been trying to accomplish with their information systems. Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. What are the challenges these groups are facing?

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

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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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. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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