Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. They were talking about API’s. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. for geeks is APIs. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. That’s good news.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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