Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 23, 2006

If you don't read his always provocative commentary in Rough Type , you should start; often running contrary to the millennial hype about web2.0 Programming If you're a web developer eager to get your feet wet with the new Ajax techniques but not sure where to start, take a look at Ajax Hacks , by Bruce W.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved. One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. That's Ajax as well. A further look.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. What’s to lose?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

some exciting new wave non-profits need to catch, or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. So let's beat that dead horse one more time. because Jeffrey Zeldman said it so well in his A List Apart blog last month.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. So why all this hype if the technology is not really all that brand new?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 I’ll then talk about blogging, podcasting and vlogging, which I think are probably the most hyped, and potentially least useful for nonprofits to jump into without a lot of thought.

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