Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 8, 2007
Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Tim O’Reilly has a bang-on post about the fact that OpenSocial does not mean that users can have data portability. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 26, 2008
New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
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 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.
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. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.
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.
Museum 2.0
MAY 14, 2009
When you enter, you start the visit by "logging in" at a kiosk that records your name, your voice, your photo, and your favorite color and music genre. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. Then, that profile is saved onto an RFID card that you use to access all of the interactive exhibits in the Lab.
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