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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. Real-Time Publishing.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0

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