The Vision
Like many Daylife fans, we regularly find ours immersed in the interesting and endlessly connected news topics and photos. In the back of our mind, there's always this perfect Daylife image-centric news browser waiting to be built. Like many things in life, we thought about it, talked about it, never did anything about it.

The Contest
We heard about the DayPI contest on 7/15 while chatting with the Daylife team in New York. Later that day, we brought back the idea of the perfect news browser - if we built it, it would surely be worthy of the contest. Can we build it in a few days? Nah.. we thought it was too late in the game, and we couldn't possibly build something good enough in such short amount of time to be competitive.

To build or not to build
A few days past, the urge of building the news browser was too great to resist - we knew that combining our vision of the viewer with the new web application model we are working on at Zoomino, we would be able to build something remarkable. So on Friday night 7/18, one week before the deadline, we decided to go for it! The next morning, David and I sat down for 4 hours to brainstorm what this browser would look like. We knew we wanted a kick-ass visualizer that would take the rich content of Daylife and make it easy to fly through. We looked at various existing image viewers, sketched out the basic design and workflow.

The Global Team Effort
When our design sketches reached our dev team in China, 1/2 way around the globe, it was already Monday 7/21, only 4 days left. Our developers studied the feasibility of design. With the DayPI documentation site and a few hints from Vineet of Daylife, we got comfortable with the API, and development started right away. On Tuesday 7/22, only 1 day later, Tiger, our Flash guru and Basil our web technology expert had the prototype built. That night, with David in Memphis, the dev team in China, and myself in New York, the global team discussed about the prototype, and set directions for the improvements to be made in the next few days. Two more one-day agile development cycles later, we have the viewer we wanted, and best of all, it's riding on the Zoomino platform, giving it wings to fly to ANY web page.

The End Product - "Take Daylife with You"
From idea inception to a posh Daylife application that can run on ANY web page, it took us less than a week to conclude the effort. We call this application "Take Daylife with You" because using this application, a user can take the wealth of Daylife news content to any web page to explore concepts he/she deems news worthy. The speed at which we got this done is of course a great testament the Zoomino team's passion and ability, but it's also proof of the power of the DayPI.

Wordbot

is a brand new tool created to assist readers and writers. Its goals are to make it easy to find information based on the full text of a document and to expose news sources by a wide variety of categories.

It can read text pasted in by a user or at any URL, and parse tags from the text to display relevant information including rich local news search from Daylife, books search from Amazon, and web search from BOSS.

Wordbot also allows multiple users to view and comment on a document parsed by Wordbot at a hard to guess URL.

It can search for news by query, and filter results by source category and location, as well as syndicate content from a selection of sources (for example, all the media content from New York City).

Another aim of Wordbot is to promote readable text on the web. Currently, it can provide a number of readability scores for any URL.

Additionally, Wordbot provides its full text parsing library under an open source license for other PHP developers, and also provides its index of Daylife sources, which includes data about source locations, categories, and other metadata. You can get Wordbot's free stuff here.

In contrast to traditional media such as newspapers or television, digital media like the World Wide Web are generally dynamic. Here, news is no longer bound to a specific form or context. This separation of content and presentation poses challenges and opportunities at the same time.
The formal presentation is not necessarily able to synthesize with the content in order to support its communication.

This work tries to answer the question, how a preliminary linguistic analysis can contribute to finding adequate presentational forms that relate to each news’ specific content.

We present a way to build feeds of travel-related news (e.g., local cultural/sport event, traveler blog, hotel strike, etc.) for specific destinations (city, state, country). We've used the Openplaces' travel ontology and traveliness guesser and mixed them up with the DayLife API to create a feed of travel-related news.

OpenPlaces travel news is demoed at: http://www.openplaces.com/news

distance is a small browser application and extension to the DayPI to provide term vectors for articles returned from Daylife, and a demonstration of how classic weighted term analysis of the results as a corpus can be used in the browser to show the user what articles might be worth their time reading. That is, which articles are more likely to contain new information about a topic.

Better algorithms for weighted term analysis, distance measure, and visualizations of the distances between the returned results can be built into clients on top of the DayPI providing term vectors to begin with. The key point is to consider the search results to be a corpus, and treat them as such for the purposes of comparison and clustering.

This widget calls the DayPI to get the number of mentions in news for people that you track news about.

http://www.yourminis.com/minis/yourminis/jgeeks/mini:Newsworthy

the idea is from http://cookbook.daylife.com/newsworthy

Dead simple newspaper topic tracker. The Deadpool Watch is on for print. Which paper folds first?

NEWSPAPER DEADPOOL

The myth of Pandora’s box states: “Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house, she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not fly away before Pandora replaced the lid of the jar.”

Hope is the fuel of sports fans everywhere and it resides inside Fandora’s Box. Fandorasbox.com is the place for fans to go inside to get news, photos, forums, and other information about their favorite players and teams. Make your personal Fandora’s Box and keep track of ‘My Players’ and ‘My Teams’ in one easy to navigate site. Fandora’s Box is also available on Apple’s iPhone. Coupled with this breakthrough platform, your mobile sports fan experience will never be the same. Users will be able to access all of their favorite teams and players information with a touch of their finger.

With Fandora's Box Sports Buzz, users will stay on top of the biggest news stories in their favorite sports.  Powered by the Daylife API, this application enables the user to search by sport and to filter by team and/or player news to focus in on the information they desire with minimal surfing required.

This application will be part of fandorasbox.com which is scheduled to release in August, 2008 by Marvel Apps.

Sahayta.org is a Cancer charity using innovative means for fundraising for Cancer treatment in India.


People visiting the Sahayta.org site can get the latest news on cancer, and also search for any cancer related news. The widget can alse be installed on any other sites or blogs related to cancer.

Try the widget for yourself below! Click on the Get Widget tab below it to get your own!