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.
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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
MAY 11, 2006
Every now and then you see an article about how - real soon now - the art of crafting software will be radically de-skilled. Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! mission critical software applications. Tools today make custom software too easy to develop.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. This is big. Be Helpful.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. Users can grab the last two years of restaurant inspection results and use mapping software to plot after-school programs. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups? for the public.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.
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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