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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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 The Semantic Web Just the other day I posted some information on Microformats for the first time. I have a strong feeling The Semantic Web is a part of the Next Big Thing.

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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved. refers to several new approaches to web application development that use tools your browser has been supporting all along, but use them in new ways. This is just what Ajax means to change.

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The "neigh"sayers take the floor again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0 some exciting new wave non-profits need to catch, or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? But the fact that a product is built using a tool that has been associated with the web 2.0 So let's beat that dead horse one more time. That old debate.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 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. Extensions are ways to connect the Convio app to other Web 2.0 Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0" Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Most of the things I see listed as Web 2.0 Another developer critical of the millennial tone of web 2.0 Last month in a post called " Quit with the Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0

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