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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. But pretty soon find yourself lying in bed at night wondering about the best format to use to feed data to the web page.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. A combination of links from Twitter, other online sources and the clickstreams of users powers search engines like Wowd , OneRiot and Faroo.

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Keeping up with the news

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps. This site was created by 19 year old Brian Benzinger, a student at Gibbs College in Norwalk Ct. The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. Solution Watch. Techcrunch.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Subscribers in Bloglines or via feedburner (Does anyone know how I can get a total number of subscribers that is accurate with several different feeds?). While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular. What about web site metrics?

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I don't often see SOAP listed among the "emerging web technologies" discussed on non-profit tech sites, but it has definitely arrived. So we've just started developing an Ajax -based web calendar that can take its information from a variety of different sources, and allow authorized users to edit the calendars over the web.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. and tag my links, I contribute content to a number of sites, including H20 Playlist. After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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