Dream: How The Guardian’s API Could Let a Thousand Stories Bloom
Newspapers are reacting in different ways to the shrinking revenue pie, some have launched blogs, many have twitter accounts, and some newspapers like the NYT keeps content behind a registration page. Today, the Guardian has launched Open Platform, a feature that will allow content be repurposed in a variety of ways. Those who participate in this affiliate content network will be an ad partner, extending the Guardian’s monetization model to these third party sites. Their API will allow third party developers to create new ways to tap into their story stream, and extend it beyond the walls of the Guardian website. I can think of half a dozen applications (as I was thinking aloud in Twitter and kicked off a … Continue readingDream: How The Guardian’s API Could Let a Thousand Stories Bloom