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http://developer.daylife.com/
Daylife makes its technology platform available to developers, editors, publishers, and readers who want to dig their hands into the news and make new stuff. The Daylife Cookbook is a set of recipes you can use to jumpstart your news fiddling. It's a motley collection of ideas, samples, step-by-steps, case studies, and so forth, that you should feel free to borrow or steal from as you build your own applications on top of the DayPI. We've broken the cookbook up into several sections, listed below.
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| Showcase profiles live examples of how the DayPI is being used in the field | Sample Code and Tutorials walk you through how to build a complete implementation, sometimes with code sample and sometimes without. | Lazyweb Ideas are notions and sketches that illustrate possible applications of the DayPI, that you could build if you wanted, or that we might build if we weren't so lazy. |
i8news
Another app name starts with "i"? Yes, but also no, it's not any iPod "i" alike. It's because i8news reads like "i ate news" (inspired by my colleague's AIM handle i8code).
So the app involves some action with eating/nibble, check out the url here: http://i8news.appspot.com/static/nibble.html (apparently inspired by the famous Nibble game).
And the food comes from Daylife Search Quotes API (search_getQuotesBy). You will get a quote, and you need to reach the correct choice by practicing arrow keys.
So it's really simple as it is. It can go more advanced and with more features, because of the tools it has used:
So the app involves some action with eating/nibble, check out the url here: http://i8news.appspot.com/static/nibble.html (apparently inspired by the famous Nibble game).
And the food comes from Daylife Search Quotes API (search_getQuotesBy). You will get a quote, and you need to reach the correct choice by practicing arrow keys.
So it's really simple as it is. It can go more advanced and with more features, because of the tools it has used:
- GWT : for writing the javascript
- Google App Enginge: supporting the backend
- daypi: the python client from daylife used to do the actual api call (need a little modification to run in the Google App Engine)
August 1 2008 - 15:53
Read more below to see the code (in PHP) that builds this page.
Build a topic page
By vineetProblem
You want to build a page about someone like Barack Obama or Steve Jobs or some organization like Google or NBA. Topics are pre-defined people, organizations, places, diseases, issues, events and products in the daylife eco-system. Things you can put on a topic page:- Top relevant Stories in recent times
- Photos related to the topic (you will need your own licenses with Getty, AP and/or Reuters)
- Top Quotes said by the topic or about the topic
- Other Topics that are connected to your topic (a.k.a. Connections)
- A timeline of coverage in mainstream news and blogs over a period of time
- An abstract from wikipedia giving basic information about the topic
Read more below to see the code (in PHP) that builds this page. July 30 2008 - 16:38
Olympics 2008 @ USA Today
By vineet Olympics.USAToday.com is showing coverage from sources all around the world for Olympics 2008 using the Daylife APIs. This portal has a page for every sport at the Olympics, and, in addition to its own coverage, USA Today is showing stories published by other sources on these pages. 
July 25 2008 - 20:57
NASCAR Drivers on TNT.tv
By vineet TNT.tv launches a NASCAR drivers portal using the Daylife APIs. The portal shows stories, connections, quotes and photos for each driver. 
The portal uses the Topic APIs like topic_getRelatedStories, topic_getRelatedTopics, topic_getRelatedQuotes and topic_getRelatedImages to get data about each player.
The portal uses the Topic APIs like topic_getRelatedStories, topic_getRelatedTopics, topic_getRelatedQuotes and topic_getRelatedImages to get data about each player. Daylife News + Dipity Timelines = NewsLine
In the world of 24-hour news channels, shrinking coverage and the rise of truthiness, Dipity aims to take the DayLife API and provide a broader context for the issues you care about. Leveraging the DayLife world and organized by Dipity on a map, timeline, list or flipbook. Newsline gives you more than just the current hottest story, it gives you a comprehensive view of an issue with images, video and stories from trusted sources. 
Want to compare the war in Iraq to the war in Afghanistan? Use Newsline to compare emerging stories and watch as existing stories evolve side by side. Got a blog post you're working on? Take your search from Newsline, select the view you want and drop it into your blog. Presto! you've now got something that's always pulling the most relevant news for the topic you care about and if you want you can add other sources to the mix as well. NewsLine. Get the whole picture.
Want to compare the war in Iraq to the war in Afghanistan? Use Newsline to compare emerging stories and watch as existing stories evolve side by side. Got a blog post you're working on? Take your search from Newsline, select the view you want and drop it into your blog. Presto! you've now got something that's always pulling the most relevant news for the topic you care about and if you want you can add other sources to the mix as well. NewsLine. Get the whole picture. July 17 2008 - 10:36
Mashup: Wordle!
By vineet Wordle is a toy (nifty tool) for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordle also lets you create these "word clouds" using a RSS feed. Sumit Kataria has written a PHP script to generate RSS feeds from DayPIs for any search term you have. Just a perfect fit to use with Wordle! Here is a RSS feed for Barack Obama - http://develop.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=%22Barack%20Obama%22 Feed it to Wordle on http://wordle.net/create and here is what you get 
Another RSS feed for "Global Warming" OR "Climate Change" - http://develop.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=%22Global%20Warming%22%2... And here is its Wordle! - 
Another RSS feed for "Global Warming" OR "Climate Change" - http://develop.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=%22Global%20Warming%22%2... And here is its Wordle! - Jaxly News Engine:: in-depth news search, read news Deliciously and share news on Orkut via Snap News
A news search website with options for in-depth search, a new way of reading news - Deliciously and an OpenSocial application Snap News for Orkut to share your favourite news items with friends The most interesting: when the news is served Deliciously
The site Jaxly (http://jaxly.com) , a news engine, is a mashup, that provides in-depth news search. Google Docs presentation link . News Search options:
- News by geographic region
- News by time line
- News with related conversations made by people on Twitter, recent events relating to the news
News served Deliciously
This allows you to read news by your Del.icio.us tags. You bookmark stuff on Delicious only when you like them. Which means you have tags which you like. So why not use them to read news? The site gets more interesting when you start reading news Deliciously Check it out! Thats the part I love. I had a friend who said "Oh! its addicting" :)Share news via Snap News
News is always hot!!! Now share news with your friends via Snap News on Orkut. July 1 2008 - 13:06
Sky News In Depth
By vineet Sky News provides in-depth news and content about hot topics in news using the Daylife API Platform. Sky news tracks coverage of hundreds of relevant topics and surfaces the rising topics on the Sky News home page. These topic pages provide in-depth content about the topic by showing related Sky News stories, a gallery of images, quotes and connections. Each topic page also shows the latest news stories from Sky News' partners and from sources all around the world to provide a global perspective on the topic. 
The Sky News topic pages use the Topic APIs (with source filtering) to show all the articles, images, quotes and connections for the topic. Each topic page also shows some Background information about the topic using the Wikipedia excerpt returned by topic_getInfo API. The "Show Connections" link for every connection on a topic page help you discover the articles and images that are related to both the topic and the connection. This feature calls the Search APIs and uses the names of the topic and the connection joint by the AND operator as the query.
The Sky News topic pages use the Topic APIs (with source filtering) to show all the articles, images, quotes and connections for the topic. Each topic page also shows some Background information about the topic using the Wikipedia excerpt returned by topic_getInfo API. The "Show Connections" link for every connection on a topic page help you discover the articles and images that are related to both the topic and the connection. This feature calls the Search APIs and uses the names of the topic and the connection joint by the AND operator as the query. Word of the Day (WOTD)
Word of the Day [WOTD] is not your typical word-of-the-day that shows just a word and its definition. WOTD goes beyond the definition and brings you news, quotes, word count, images and web links relevant to the word of the day. Powered by DayPI and Yahoo! BOSS. ![Word of the Day [WOTD]](http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii153/samowen1/screen-wotd.png "Word of the Day [WOTD]")
DayPI Powered Sections:
The actual word for the "Word of the Day" is from Yahoo! Education.
DayPI Powered Sections: - News: The Word of the Day in recent news.
- Quotes: The Word of the Day in quotes.
- Word Count: The number of times the word of the day has appeared in recent news.
- Web: The Word of the Day on the web.
- Images: Images tagged with The Word Of The Day.
The actual word for the "Word of the Day" is from Yahoo! Education.
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