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. The application says to Social Actions, “Show me everything that matches this URI.”
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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. This is big. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones.
NTEN
OCTOBER 28, 2009
Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!
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.
NTEN
JUNE 18, 2009
Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., A phone system? A CRM solution?
NTEN
JULY 1, 2009
You're probably already busy trying to support email and calendaring on these devices, but you're going to have to start thinking about creating and deploying applications that allow your staff to use their phone as a mobile office. What data and applications can and should you give them access to via their phones? .
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