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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

Here's how it works: a person wears an EEG-sensor cap and stares at a grid of letters that flash. When the letter flashes that the user wants to type, the software registers the jump in brain activity and types the corresponding letter. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. It’s basically typing with the mind.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. no need for local copies, CDs, flash drives, etc.). A wiki is a collaborative website and writing tool that allows people to easily contribute, delete and edit content. The growing adoption of wikis in educational. Ability to save local copies if desired.

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