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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Rhode Island's Open Data : Yet another site only a programmer could love, RI.gov's data library is as deep and wide as Newport Harbor, for which you can download tidal data. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.

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WarnerMedia and Discovery have completed their mega-streaming merger

The Verge

As AT&T said last year, the deal will allow the two companies to “combine WarnerMedia’s storied content library of popular and valuable IP with Discovery’s global footprint, trove of local-language content and deep regional expertise across more than 200 countries and territories.”. From a value perspective, this deal maths out.

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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

NTEN

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Entries must be applications that use a host of government information APIs or datasets, including the Sunlight Labs API, OpenSecrets.org API, the FollowtheMoney.org API, the Capitol Words API, and other Sunlight APIs and datasets.

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Software Bricklaying?

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Now that object-oriented environments were enabling people to write little self-contained blocks of code that encapsulated an entire business function, developers would be able to buy some libraries and snap the components together like legos. Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila!

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Quick Hit: 2010 Horizon Report on New Technologies and Museums

Museum 2.0

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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