A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam!
- Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies.
- Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines.
- NTEN Member Beth J. Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. But does it seem like World of Warcraft would be a better place to find a partner? Really?
- PE Obama's promise to hire the nation's first CTO.
- If people keep falling asleep during your slideshows, you could try tossing ping-pong balls into their gaping, snoring mouths -- or turn to Animoto, a service that creates video slideshows that play like Ken Burns after too much Jolt Cola. Best of all, you can set them to your favorite MC Frontalot track.
- Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars.
- You know how it's hard to get that last bit of peanut butter past the rounded edge of the jar? This guy decided to do something about it . (Hey, things we like don't need to relate to NPTech when they're this revolutionary.)
- YouTube as a political tool.
- Google.org has developed a way to track flu outbreaks based on aggregated search data. Now, will somebody please mash-up a system that sends us alerts when people nearby start to get phlegmy?