Yesterday, ReadWrite Web reported about a new credit card scanner from a company called Square. This scanner will hook up to any device with an audio input jack.
While this may start as an iPhone-focused product, it is clear from Square’s website that it won’t stay that way. You don’t hire developers for Android and Blackberry [...]
The scene: the summer of 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
More angry protestors are beaten back by the Basiji, the Iranian regime’s oppressive militia. Neda is an innocent bystander passing through. Not even innocent bystanders are safe. A Basiji sniper bullet rips into her heart. She lays on the ground bleeding to death. Her father cries out [...]
You wouldn’t expect a spam filter to have such strong emotions, but some faulty code in the popular server side spam filter Spam Assassin caused that filter to mark any email sent in 2010 as spam. Good old Waxy was the first report I saw of this.
Read more...Mashable just posted 6 Tech Predictions That Helped Shape 2009 and 6 That Might Shape 2010. It’s a good post, and if you care about tech, please check it out.
But I’d like to call out two predictions in particular that nonprofit fundraisers should be on the lookout for:
Facebook Gets into…Payments
…Leveraging Facebook Connect, it’s conceivable that [...]
Just in case you haven’t noticed, Masterworks is on Twitter.
You can follow us at www.twitter.com/masterworks.
Happy Tweeting!
YouTube recently announced that advertisers can now target their ads very specifically – even down to individual videos.
The video targeting tool also allows targeting of videos by keywords, viewer demographics, interest-based categories, or some combination of the three.
One possible application for nonprofits
In a disaster-response situation, particularly with disasters in developed countries with solid technology infrastructures, [...]
A few days ago YouTube announced that it now serves well over 1 billion videos every day.
In fact, there are more videos watched every day than searches performed, as attested to in this post excerpt:
According to comScore Video Metrix, 120.5 million Americans watched nearly 10 billion videos on YouTube.com in August 2009. That 82.6 [...]
We’ve submitted two sessions for the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) 2010 in Atlanta next April – if they would be interesting to you would you be willing to vote for them (see the VOTE FOR links below)?
By the way, the NTC is a GREAT conference – if you want to know about the leading edge [...]
The video below has been making the rounds in the social media world for several weeks now, so we thought we’d feature it here as well.
Pretty good (if you can get over the incessant beat).
Last year a similar video came out — see that below. I actually like this one better, although it makes [...]
A post over at allfacebook.com points out a new report that suggests Facebook has replaced email for sharing content.
Specifically:
Facebook now accounts for 24 percent of all items being shared in contrast to email which now accounts for 11.1 percent. Not surprisingly, Twitter now accounts for 10.8 percent of all items shared. I reached out to [...]
