14th
February
2008
Tidbits
posted in Nonprofit Tech |These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter.
- Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect, can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest - that’s just the total they will award.) But first, of course, you must be “verified” as a Kintera Connect partner. Sigh. When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open?
- Click and Pledge, a company that does SaaS for nonprofits, released a new product, called “Trio”. Trio is an integration of SugarCRM, Joomla, and a credit card payment system. This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable.
- Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. He asks: “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge? I think so, but maybe I’m just nostalgic.” Um, Matt, Sourceforge has been basically irrelevant for years, since people started moving their projects off of that platform, and onto their own platforms. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.
- Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest - the best Firefox add-ons. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at.
