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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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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.