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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

But as I've mentioned, I've been doing a good bit of coding these last couple weeks, updating an old web app we did for one of our clients. If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry.

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0" Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Most of the things I see listed as Web 2.0 Another developer critical of the millennial tone of web 2.0 Last month in a post called " Quit with the Web 2.0

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The Semantic Web Just the other day I posted some information on Microformats for the first time. and Marnie Webb pointed us to Piggy Bank , a Fireflox plug-in from MIT that scrapes semantic content from web pages. I have a strong feeling The Semantic Web is a part of the Next Big Thing. What can you do when you're branded?

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm.

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The "neigh"sayers take the floor again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0 Of course technology is developing rapidly and there are new tools and techniques you'd be a fool not to explore -- in fact there are quite a few I will urge you to take a look at. But the fact that a product is built using a tool that has been associated with the web 2.0

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

We see that the trend to make more and more services available via the web has brought xml-based webservices and innovative web-development techniques to the fore. XML-based web services Probably the biggest trend we see is that organizations are trying to push more functionality out to members and supporters via the internet.

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Meet Michael Stein 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I heard that TechSoup will be hosting an online about Web 2.0 Why are you interested in Web 2.0 While Web 2.0 While Web 2.0 programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately. and Nonprofits on Oct. and nonprofits? It makes you SO much more visible.

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