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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s. was difficult.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue : If you are a Vancouver resident or tourist, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of traffic advisories or review the 133 voting division boundaries. for the public. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project.

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Step-by-Step: How To Set Up A Nonprofit Listening Post (Twitter - Part 1)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Are you currently using RSS Reader? Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Desktop applications built for Twitter allow you to read replies and direct messages and offer a more custom browsing experience. Not everyone has to do the deep dive or heavy lifting, how will you organize your team effort? If so, what reader?

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