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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). hardware, network, application server…). at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). hardware, network, application server…). at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

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Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. Many web-based applications and SaaS products are beginning to adopt [link] standards.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Best Engaging Communities " a large collection of best-practices info and case studies about managing online communities found by Ian Wilker. Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda. Michele Martin has some reactions.

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