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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

Tired of the Tradtionial Phone System? Then a VOIP Phone System is for You. From: Internet Phone <cue@apt.tryanew-typeofphonehere.us> Message-ID: <CzOhAKAel.AnKuI7e8MI@tryanew-typeofphonehere.us> To: <robert@rlweiner.com> Subject: Save on phone bills - w/ VOIP Service robert@rlweiner.com. MIME-Version: 1.0.

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

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. He has created a " Mashup Page " with the sub-title: Dr. Mashup or: Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix. Executable code for a operating system.

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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. This is big. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Instead of using that home-built coding system for locations, try using an existing naming convention. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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