Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. . The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Ok sorry for evangelizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. You can access Diigo through their website, via the Diigo toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer, via bookmarklet , or via the Diigo Chrome extension.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Be Helpful.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Weve become accustomed to giving up bits of data for convenience, and have been forced into trusting our internet service providers because access has become so vital to everyday life. If you use public WiFi networks a lot, like while working at a coffee shop, then VPN usage can help give you private internet access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. This is why the media company is choosing to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the LSE. A sub-market of the LSE, the AIM is built specifically for small-cap companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

In January 2020, Google announced plans to eliminate third-party cookies, heralding a massive shake-up for digital advertising and the internet itself. The end of these cookies promises the golden age of digital marketing , where the internet becomes privacy-first. That’s not to say Google’s motives are pure, though. Unified ID 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Of course, we talked about data entry and QA testing, but also less obvious and exciting alternatives that have great potential both to revitalize the South Bronx and address the problem of the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08 Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes which put an end to third-party Twitter clients , prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. In ’99, Decrem worked on a Linux startup called Eazel which aimed to make Linux easier to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. Chatwoot is an open source customer engagement suite alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

Gonzo is a passionate internet entrepreneur who has been doing business online since 1996. In 2007 he started KillerStartups.com : ‘Where Internet Entrepreneurs Are The Stars’ We acquired the domain name Startups.com a few years back. Don’t get me wrong, we’re all for open source stuff like WordPress, MySQL, and PHP.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

OpenAI says it will release an open-source modelbut why now? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that his company intends to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the next few months. Open models typically come with a permissive license that requires little or no payment to the model developer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

He began looking at alternatives, but found that many were focused on conferencing and didn’t provide for the flexibility for native mobile. D’Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences, aka WebRTC, in applications.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 23, 2023

While there have been many recent advances in training joint visual-language models on Internet-scale data, figuring out how to best connect them to a spatial representation of the physical world that can be used by robots remains an open research question. Extending VLMaps to handle more dynamic environments (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

While at Metamarkets, they developed Druid, an open source, distributed data store written in Java that uses a cluster of specialized processes to analyze high volumes of real-time and historical data. Yang, Merlino, and Ogievetsky met at Metamarkets, an analytics platform for programmatic advertising that was acquired by Snap in 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The alternative would be to use 1.1 I mean, sure, it’s generated code. Sure, it’s cake 1.2x (which never seems to get out of RC) but well. which is stable but has stuff like ‘you’re limited to one validator per model.’ ’ More than a rant (although this is a rant) this is intended as mini-cautionary tale.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Behind both language models and many of our robotics learning approaches, like RT-1 , are Transformers , which allow models to make sense of Internet-scale data. Unlike video and text data that is abundant on the Internet, robotic data is extremely scarce and hard to acquire. Learning to play table tennis with a human opponent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. . Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

If you're looking for an alternative to Meltwater 's media monitoring capabilities, check out the list of PR tools on PRstack. Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. However, there are some alternative calendar tools. Accounting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Together at MIT, Marzoev and Gjengset spearheaded an open source project called Noria, a streaming data-flow system designed to act as a fast storage backend for web apps. “Internet user growth set records in the pandemic, but database performance has stayed the same. ”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Set up your PC for an alternative bootup. After your PC is set to boot from an alternative drive, insert your DVD or USB drive, reboot, and select “Start Linux Mint” from the first menu. And, that’s it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Promises include : The startup claims its “open source cloud-native” webhook services is “secured, reliable, and scalable for customers’ webhooks infrastructure. Founded in: 2021. Team size: 8. Location: Lagos, Nigeria.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Designed for the developing world, nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox phones are meant to be a low-cost alternative to iPhones and Android phones. Check out Engadget's hands-on review of the ZTE Open C.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? When we set out, we asked, ‘What if the Smithsonian was owned and curated by the internet?’ To avoid that, you’d have to open source your database.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Effectively, there would be no way to fuse together different forms of encryption across apps with different design features, said Steven Bellovin, an acclaimed internet security researcher and professor of computer science at Columbia University. How do you tell your phone who you want to talk to, and how does the phone find that person?”

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