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Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. I have a few comments. He’s right.

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Internet Strategy in a World of Ubiquitous Tools: Sometimes You Just Gotta Launch and Learn

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Folks in our industry can get into religious-war-level discussions on the merits / demerits of each approach and my intention is not to join that fray. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment.

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Intenet strategy in a world of ubiquitous tools - sometimes you just gotta launch and learn

Forum One

Folks in our industry can get into religious-war-level discussions on the merits / demerits of each approach and my intention is not to join that fray. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb and Uber emerged as platform companies providing services without actually owning hotels (in the case of Airbnb) and vehicles (in the case of Uber—soon to be joined by Lyft), and quickly came to disrupt and dominate their respective industries. Community shares,” Good Finance, accessed May 24, 2022, org.uk/community-shares-0.

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