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The Daylife Cookbook is a collection of recipes to help you bootstrap applications that use the Daylife platform (DayPI).
These recipes come from Daylifers and the cookbook community, with entries ranging from sample code to tutorials, half baked ideas, and spotlights of the latest deployments of the DayPI.
Feel free to share, steal, criticize, applaud, and feed back!
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Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
It's amazing how simple this is to integrate into django. When a view is creating a page, it just calls a thin wrapper function that I put around the daypi module. - Bracket Boy
I found the Daylife API for PHP really easy to use, and coded something up quickly for my site, Brooklyn and Beyond - Brooklyn & Beyond
This tool makes it really easy to get a quick look or dive in deep thanks to our partner Daylife, who built a comprehensive service that yields up-to-the-minute results - The Washington Post
I was trying to make it work by using Google News RSS feeds but turned out impossible since they don't organize their data in the feeds. I now know its possible with the Daylife API - Akash Xavier
Mashup: Create Dipity Timelines using the Daylife RSS feeds
Dipity lets you create simple and visual timelines by adding events manually or adding RSS feeds to automatically create events.
Sumit just launched a RSS feed generator that lets you create RSS feeds for any topic or search term using the Daylife Search API. And this is my first mashup using the RSS feed creator - Barack Obama News Timeline.
I simply added the following feed in this timeline - http://demos.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=title:Obama&limit=5. And here is the result:
Do not stop yourself from creating more innovative timelines. Simply signup on Dipity and use the Daylife RSS feeds to generate the events for your timelines.
Also check out the Timeline widget in flash for Topics and the trendrr mashup to create trend graphs for news coverage about any topic or search term.