Mashable: How to Build Your Own Local News Application Using Outside.in’s API
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 16:26
"Outside.in is launching a new API that allows developers to tap the company’s database of local news and information to build location-aware applications."
New York Times Developer Network
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 22:44
"API Documentation and Tools - You already know that NYTimes.com is an unparalleled source of news and information. But now it's a premier source of data, too — why just read the news when you can hack it?"
New York Times: Open: Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 22:42
"The initial version of the Campaign Finance API offers overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. In addition, the API supports a contributor name search using any of the following parameters: first name, last name and ZIP code."
New York Times: Bits: The A.P.I. Bug Hits Old Retail and Old Media
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 22:51
"Mashery, a two-year-old San Francisco start-up, is working with old-line firms like Hoover’s, Reuters, and even the New York Times, to develop A.P.I.’s. It is essentially in the business of turning internal streams of once-proprietary corporate data into outbound rivers of information that other Web sites can drink from freely."
World Bank: Welcome to the World Bank Developer Network
Monday, 1 September 2008, 17:22
World Bank releases API… Will news websites make use of the data?
PA set to launch listings data API through BBC Backstage
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 12:03
The Press Association’s events listings database is to be made available for non-commercial use by web developers and will be released through the BBC’s web developer network.
PA is releasing an API (application programming interface) of its events listings through the BBC Backstage programme, a developer network that provides access to BBC and some third-party content [...]
Inside Guardian.co.uk: Paul Carvill exposes the dark corners of guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 17:12
How to manipulate Guardian.co.uk URLs to combine categories and find very specific types of content…
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Back to full-time employment
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:09
"I’ll be joining [Guardian News & Media] full time (well, four days a week) in mid-October as a software architect, collaborating with their development team on some ambitious API projects. The Guardian have access to a lot of interesting data and I can’t wait to get stuck in to it."
MediaGuardian: Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:08
"Former Yahoo and Lawrence Journal World developer Simon Willison has been recruited by Guardian News & Media as a software architect, it was announced today."
Chicago Tribune Magazine: Cyberstar
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 08:41
A long interview with Adrian Holovaty about Everyblock. "In Chicago, we've got 14 types of information," Holovaty says. "We're creating an ordered view of chaos. That's what journalists do, right?"
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 22:52
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"National Public Radio (NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow developers to serve up mashups that include audio, images, and full text articles from the non-profit media organization’s archives that go as far back as 1995."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 09:56
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APIs, widgets, aggregation tools, social networking tools and personalisation at the New York Times.
Monday, 26 May 2008, 18:06
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Aron Pilhofer, the paper’s interactive news editor, the goal of an API is to "make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.""
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 15:10
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"Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs."
