Blinds

This is an idea for a widget that looks like a blind on a window with an image of people in news that you want to track on the blind's strips.

You mouse-over on a particular newsmaker, and it shows you recent stories and other connections to that person.

This can be a great visual widget. If you would be interested in developing this for us in flash or javascript, let us know.

By The Numbers

By The Numbers was conceived as a different way to explore the news. In this case, by searching for news by way of a particular number that appears in the news.

Using the Daylife search API, it's possible to search for articles that contain a particular number, and present the results back in a format that allows you to shape the presentation of those results. This model was conceived as a Flash module, allowing a user to scroll across the numbers, from 0 - 100, select and display the results. Then, scrolling over the headlines, you can select the story you want to read and click on it to go directly to the article.

And if you like it By The Numbers, you're sure to love Prime Time, and Fibonacci! 

Celebrity Tracker

Similar to the Sports Tracker, here is a design for a celebrity news tracker. Choose your favorite actor or actress and you have a sexy little widget for your blog or website.

The widget then calls the Daylife API to get news, quotes and pictures for your favorite celebrity.

This is still an idea. If you would like to implement this, let us know.

Enhance your content with related photos and quotes

The screenshot below is an example of how you can enhance your content by putting related photos and quotes on them.

The example below shows an AP article about George Bush calling for global isolation of Iran. On an article like this you can have Iran, george bush, isolation as tags. You can use these tags to query our search APIs to get related photos and quotes.

The modules in the design above are not built yet. If you would be interested in building a module like this, please send us an email.

Idea: Candidate Tracker

Candidate Tracker is a design for a widget or a module on a page to bring together background information, news stories and pictures in one complete grabbable module. You should also be able to search for a candidate by typing in a name. For e.g., the design below shows the universe of John McCain in one succinct model. The picture gallery and the newsfeed sections are supposed to refresh automatically to move on to the next picture or news story.

You can use topic_getRelatedStories to build the newsfeed. topic_getRelatedImages can be used to build the picture gallery. As for background information, you can use the DayPI topic_getInfo to get a block of text that is the abstract summary from wikipedia. However, it does not give you a the broken down information as in this design.

For the background information, it would be a good idea to do a mashup with some other people search APIs. For e.g., the ZoomInfo API  - http://api.zoominfo.com/PartnerAPI/XmlOutput.aspx?query_type=people_search_query&pc=dn7vdjv2wjmcpepbj9zg8u7f&firstName=John&lastName=McCain

This is still an idea. If you would like to implement it for us, let us know.

Idea: Fashion Highlights and the Designers

The design below is for a widget that brings you photos from fashion shows around the world and let you explore them by selecting your favorite designers. You can extend the design also to let the user filter the photos by the specific fashion shows.

You will need licenses to photo feeds from Getty Images, Associated Press and/or Reuters Pictures to use any photos in this widget.

You can use search_getRelatedImages to get photos about a particular fashion show using the name of the show. E.g. New York Fashion Week 2008. Or you can use a query such as "fashion week" OR "fashion show" to get the latest pictures in fashion.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

Idea: Newsmakers on the map

Newsmakers on the map is a design for a widget or html module that tracks the hot topics in news based on geographic locations. You mouse over or click on a particular region on the map to see the people that are getting the most coverage by the press in that region. You can then select one of those topics below the map and see the top 4 headlines from the sources in that region writing about that person.

Here is a design for a smaller version that can be developed as a grabbable widget.

Read more below to see what methodologies and API calls you will need to implement this design.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

The most important DayPI feature that enables the implementation for this design is Source Filtering. Trick is to have source filters for each geographic region that you want to highlight on the map.

Once you have the list of sources in each source filter, you can use the Source API Call (source_getTopics) to get the list of topics that sources in that region are writing about. Once the user selects a particular topic, you can call topic_getRelatedStories with the source_filter_id for that region to get the top 4 headlines for that topic published by sources in that region.

Idea: People in the Press Ticker

The design below is for a widget or a banner html module that shows you the stories about people in the press in a very visually beautiful manner.

There are several methodlogies to determine the list of these top players in the different categories of news (categories are World, US, Business etc.). We will list a few below and suggest what DayPI calls can be used.

• For each category of news, maintain a list of top 100-200 topics. On a daily basis you can keep track of number of mentions in news for each of these players using the topic_getTimeline or the search_getCounts API. You can then select the top 10 mentioned players in each category to power the design above.

 

• For each category of news, maintain a list of sources that publish articles in that domain. You can use source_getTopics API call to get the list of most relevant topics in these sources. Trick is to carefully choose the list of sources for each category.

When the user clicks on one of these topics, call topic_getRelatedStories to pull stories about that topic. You can also use specific source filters for each category to ensure that the news shown for each topic is from the right category.

The background picture of related topics is a big part of this design. It might be a good idea to maintain a mapping on the client side for some of these topics to these visual images to make the design more effective.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

Idea: Players in the news

The design below is for a widget or a simple HTML module that surfaces the topics with most coverage across different categories in news.

There are several methodlogies to determine the list of these top players in the different categories of news (categories are World, US, Business etc.). We will list a few below and suggest what DayPI calls can be used.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

• For each category of news, maintain a list of top 100-200 topics. On a daily basis you can keep track of number of mentions in news for each of these players using the topic_getTimeline or the search_getCounts API. You can then select the top 10 mentioned players in each category to power the design above.

 

• For each category of news, maintain a list of sources that publish articles in that domain. You can use source_getTopics API call to get the list of most relevant topics in these sources. Trick is to carefully choose the list of sources for each category.

When the user clicks on one of these topics, call topic_getRelatedStories to pull stories about that topic. You can also use specific source filters for each category to ensure that the news shown for each topic is from the right category.

Idea: The Connector

The Connector is a widget which enables a user to enter any name in the search bar and see who he/she is connected to. [screen 1]

This is still an idea. If you would be interested in building this, let us know.

Clicking on the “?ʼ next to each connection, opens a window, displaying the connection between the two people. The information in this window reads as follows:

-”X” and “X” were both mentioned in:- Sliding excerpt -Source attribution

Both names are links back to corresponding topic pages.Article headline links to corresponding news source.Source attribution links to the home page of the source

By double clicking any “connected person”, the display replaces this person in the center image, and a new set of connected persons reveals itself. Bottom window doubles as promo copy to encourage grab, and will also display two text ads when served offsite to userʼs page/site. Adequate room is needed to display both.Overall design aesthetic is to be clean and simple, not overly stylized. Itʼs intention is not to work both on Daylife.com, as well as on anyone elseʼs site, and thus not compete or challenge their existing site look/feel. Title bar displays name “The Connectorʼ, and Daylife co-branding in right corner

Idea: The World's Most Evil Dictators

Here is a design for a project which we call '10 Most Evil Dictators of the World'. The selection of these dictators (topics) will be editorial but the creation of the topic page will be automatic using our Daylife APIs.

This is an idea and has a straightforward implementation using our Topic APIs. If you would be interested in implementing it, let us know.

Mashup Idea: Change Broadcasting Channel

This is a proposal about a project that we had submitted to the Netsquared Mashup Challenge. It proposes to create a mashup using Daylife and Twitter APIs.

If you would be interested in implement this idea, please drop us a note. 

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

People are becoming more socially responsible, and want to be up-to-date with news about social change and impact. Plus, they are self organizing in online and real world communities to work together and bring change.

CBC (Change Broadcasting Channels) allows users to select channels of social change, and receive instant news about these channels on a mobile phone through SMS or twitter. Every channel has a community of subsribers that use the community tools to promote and share big stories and events. create momentum to find solutions to problems and trigger change.

Today there are a few barriers to getting instant access to socially relevant news:

· Relevant news needs to be obtained from sites dedicated to socially responsibility.

· Most of these sites have information from blogs and RSS feeds. Very few if any, have information from global news wires.

· These sites by nature offer a pull-based model, rather than an alert-based one where the user is notified of any news of interest as it happens.

· The user does not have much flexibility in choosing the news they want to track.

The idea of Change Broadcasting Channel is to create channels of news about issues of social change, and the endpoint for these channels is your mobile phone. Twitter serves basic phones with only SMS functionality.

A user can subscribe to an existing channel or create their own, based on a set of keywords.

Each channel has a community which is the group of subscribers to the channel. And this community gets triggers (the SMSes/twitters from a river of news) that create momentum, driving them to address their cause.

Change Broadcasting Channels will change the world by instantly informing socially active individuals of news of their interest, eliminating any delay in action. These users are part of communities where they actively use the modern tools to bring out the most relevant stories and issues and cultivate a discussion to find solutions.

What information will people interact with to make this change?

The 2 main interfaces/data sources that people will interact with - news from http://daylife.com and SMS/messaging capabilities from Twitter.

CBC 'Pop Demand' allows users to specify keywords of social change that they want to keep track of. Users can submit these keywords, which are evaluated and added to the social channel taxonomy. Once the request for certain keywords exceeds a certain number, this keyword becomes an official channel. Some examples channels:

* Crisis & Conflicts * Education * Energy * Social Sector Finance * Microfinance * Women's Rights * Cultural Rights * Child Rights * Human Trafficking * Poverty * Human Rights * Environment * Health * Community Improvement * Arts & Culture * Public & Social Benefit * Safety & Disaster * Employment Issues * Urban Development

A user can subscribe to one or more channels over SMS. CBC continuously polls the news for these keywords, and notifies the subscribers of the respective channels over SMS or twitter with a summary of news of those keywords. CBC uses twitter to send and receive SMS. Twitter users can send a direct message to the daylife twitter user dlfe, to recommend keywords for subsciption (eg d dlfe tax 'microfinance'). The CBC system saves the keyword and adds it to the channel request list. News messages are also sent to the users as direct messages to their twitter user ids.

 

Mashup Idea: News and reviews for Books

The design below is for a mashup to bring together news and reviews about books at one place.

This can be a great mashup of daylife APIs and a book review API. Programmableweb has a list of APIs for book reviews. If you would be interested in developing this mashup for us, email us.

Newsworthy - compare news coverage

This is a design for an index like widget that we call Newsworthy or a Person Stacker. Idea is to call the DayPI to get the number of mentions in news for people that you track news about.

This is a design that we have not implemented yet. But if you are interested and would like to build this project for us, drop us a note.

Photo gallery: Playmakers

This is a design for a photo gallery for a player, a celebrity, a politician, a game, an issue, a fashion show or anything in news that we have photos for.

You can use the Daylife APIs to pull these pictures about anything in the world.
 

This design still an idea. If you be interested in developing this into a real implementation, let us know.

Politics Tracker

Very similar to the sports tracker and the celeb tracker, the design below is for a widget to track news about people in politics.
 

This is still an idea with a design. If you want to implement this for us, let us know.

Prime Time Live

Similar to the "By the numbers" idea, this is a design with a small twist - only prime numbers.

This is still an idea. If you would be interested in implementing it for us, let us know.

Site Search

If you see your blog or website on Daylife, you can enable your site search using the Daylife APIs. You can find out if you are in the Daylife system or not by searching for your blog or site name on Daylife . If you cannot find your content in the Daylifesystem

The support for Source Filtering in the DayPI will help you to search through your content archive by using a source filter that just has your source.

You can also enhance the search experience on your site by giving results from your partners or from all over the web. As long as your partner's content is in the Daylife system, you can build a source filter with a list of your partners.

Sports Tracker - News and pictures, tracker

This is a design for a project we call the Sports Tracker. The idea is to build a widget or a page where you can select what sports game, sports team or a sports player that you would want to track in news.

This is a design that we have not implemented yet. But if you are interested and would like to build this project for us, drop us a note.