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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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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)&#. What makes it possible Cloud computing is made possible and easier by two trends, two that have happened closely in parallel, one that is relatively recent: High bandwidth to the curb and massive data centers.

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

NTEN

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. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Web Platforms - Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers.

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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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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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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. Also, most of the audiences I'll be talking to are not web analytics geeks either, so will need a basic and condensed overview too. To understand why social media metrics are different from traditional web metrics.

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