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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t Opendata question is also critical – how do you know whether data you release will be dangerous in future mashups? How long will this data be stored?

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). Track volunteering efforts. They're running it in connection with a show promotion.

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Ushahidi's Next Steps

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We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Ushahidi was created to address the post-election crisis in Kenya , but is now being used to track violence, human rights abuses, and aid efforts all over the world. read more.

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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. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here. This year's "Featured Projects" are here.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

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Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili. So much innovation.

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Government 2.0 Presentation from Tara Hunt

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

screen to keep track of the history ??? This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs. recent changes???

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Can Twitter Save the Fail Whales? Err Save the World.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and of course, we can track web site or blog referrals from Twitter (traffic) and possibly sign ups for an action. It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. What do we measure? What does it mean?

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