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How to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Visibility Online (Hint: Use the Google Ad Grant)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits need to be visible on the internet, but getting to a place where your organization shows up in search results or becomes featured content takes time, money, and expertise. Elevation has been a nonprofit partner since 2007 and currently supports more than 200 different organizations in Europe and the Americas.

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SpaceX moves to beam Starlink internet into cars, boats, and aircraft

The Verge

SpaceX is asking the FCC for approval to beam Starlink internet into moving vehicles. SpaceX is seeking regulatory approval to connect its rapidly growing network of internet-beaming Starlink satellites to cars, trucks, shipping boats, and aircraft. A train of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit passes over Uruguay.

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New Google Classroom tool gives hints on tough homework problems

The Verge

Google Classroom, for folks who went to school before the internet was everything, is a widely used gaggle of web tools that allows teachers to post assignments, students to submit them, and teachers to return them online. An algorithm will provide hints to students who seem stumped. to attach appropriate hints and resources.

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Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud streaming stick

The Verge

“We’re working with global TV manufacturers to embed the Game Pass experience directly into internet-connected TVs so all you’ll need to play is a controller,” says Liz Hamren, head of gaming experiences and platforms at Microsoft. Microsoft isn’t detailing pricing or release dates for its streaming stick.

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 T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet: I tried it, and it tried me

The Verge

Is cellular good enough for a home internet connection? I was interested in T-Mobile’s Home Internet service from the first time I heard about it: it’s $50 (a price that includes the specialized router) , contract and data cap-free, and is powered by 5G and LTE instead of phone lines or cable.

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The State of iPhone Fundraising Apps :: Three Examples

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This App was created by two guys who went out on the Internet asking friends to help them raise $3,100 to launch this App. Hint, Hint. Online donation services that use GuideStar, such as Network for Good, JustGive, Change.org, Razzo, etc. Giveabit :: Download. Released: March 3, 2010. PayPal mobile pages are coming.

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Google Maps Dirty Trick or Malfunctioning "Feature?"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm going to the Internet Archive's new office at 300 Funston in San Francisco, to attend the Books in Browsers conference. Not really knowing all of San Francisco's streets, I got out and recognized the old location of the Internet Archive. Helpful hint for people hoping to go to the actual 300 Funston address: type in 298 Funston.

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