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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? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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?

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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