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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! I asked mobile users around the globe “do you think you can change the world?&# And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data. Do you think you can change the world? And the results?

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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. The use of FourSquare fits in with its other experiments with mobile and playing with the idea of place. Last week, the Museum released a mobile version of their website, joining other museums like the Powerhouse Museum and the Walker Art Center.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. This is big.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

The submissions included several compelling mobile apps. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups? Tell us in the comments.

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

In many emerging economies capitalism has slowly developed out of the shadows of communism, feudalism or dictator-style mashup economies, and its current incarnations haven’t entirely shaken themselves of the dusty vestiges of the past. The distrust that haunts both the Tanzanian and Ecuadorian tech scenes is not without precedent.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)