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Disney Mashup on Fairuse and Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

writer Lawrence Lessig contributes--was founded last year to "support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom." Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired.

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

Tech Soup

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Opendata question is also critical – how do you know whether data you release will be dangerous in future mashups? This lead me to a project called “ Capture the Ocean ,” a research project designed to help identify and understand the laws regulate the collection, use, and storage of data.

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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. So, have been updating arts 2.0 I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits.

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Think Like a Game Designer

Museum 2.0

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. But this week, I participated in a game design workshop with Ken Eklund that totally changed my perspective. My starting point is interactive exhibit design; Ken's is game design. We rarely talk about this when we design museum exhibits.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here. This year's "Featured Projects" are here.