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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup. Gavin's Digital Dinner " Return to Beneath the Valley of MetaData " Allan Benamer's " The NpTech Tag and Why It is Broken " And, since I'm so much a visual learner I had to diagram what he was saying before I can understand it. So, Allan, did I get it right?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How data are being used to frame the issues on which nonprofits and voluntary associations work and what civil society can do about it; The realities of association and expression in a digital age and what these changes mean for civil society. How long will this data be stored?

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. Connecting to the Internet Digital Divide GreenTech International Networks Green IT WiFi tsgreentechnology BRCK Ushahidi' I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Ushahidi's Next Steps

Tech Soup

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. Tools Web 2.0

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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. Tags: Digital Divide Grants for Technology Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Tech Planning Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial???

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