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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services. Image 1: miuet.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Web Application Frameworks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A web server, in the physical sense of the phrase, is a box sitting in a data center (or under someone’s desk) with a unique IP address, that answers queries from the internet and serves up data, depending on the request. PHP is one of many programming languages. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

They provide you with viewable, interactive, and mostly hands-free Internet just above your right eye. The display where you augment your reality by peering in to the Internet is in the upper right part of your vision and is about a half inch in size. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. century Italy.