The Daylife Team often works with publishers to build new verticals within existing sites, or add more pages to existing sections that are being managed by a small professional editorial staff. That's a big part of the value that Daylife brings: we let publishers create automatic inventory that they can use to drive ads, to enrich readers' experiences, and to supercharge the shrinking newsroom.

There are several more examples of the output of such efforts here Cookbook.: USA Today used the Daylife APIs to enhance their flights and cruise blogs with more and more topic pages about the cruise and airline industry. The team at Turner built four tightly focused sites using the API for NBA, PGA, NASCAR and MLB.

The Sacramento Bee has recently launched a celebrity section on their site using the Daylife API. The section provides a celebrity landing page with news stories, photos and related topics of the day. Readers can then follow links to topic pages for celebrities in news and find the most recent stories, photos, related topics, as well as quotes said by the featured celebrity and background information from wikipedia.

After the jump, some tips on generating a landing page for a Daylife-powered microsite...

Problem

You want to build a page about someone like Barack Obama or Steve Jobs or some organization like Google or NBA.

Topics are pre-defined people, organizations, places, diseases, issues, events and products in the daylife eco-system.

Things you can put on a topic page:

• Top relevant Stories in recent times
• Photos related to the topic (you will need your own licenses with Getty, AP and/or Reuters)
• Top Quotes said by the topic or about the topic
• Other Topics that are connected to your topic (a.k.a. Connections)
• A timeline of coverage in mainstream news and blogs over a period of time
• An abstract from wikipedia giving basic information about the topic 

Read more below to see the code (in PHP) that builds this page.

TNT.tv launches a NASCAR drivers portal using the Daylife APIs. The portal shows stories, connections, quotes and photos for each driver.

The portal uses the Topic APIs like topic_getRelatedStories, topic_getRelatedTopics, topic_getRelatedQuotes and topic_getRelatedImages to get data about each player.

USA Today expanded their Today in the Sky Blog by Ben Mutzabaugh to a flights portal by creating a mashup of Daylife and Kayak services. They built topic pages for Airlines, airports and hot flying topics by pulling real time flights data from Kayak and stories, quotes, connections and pictures from DayPIs. You can go to an American Airlines topic page to see the ontime performance of the AA flights as well as news content from around the world for them.

The USA Today folks used the same platform to build this portal as the Cruise Log that they built earlier.

TNT.tv launched a NBA portal with the topic page for NBA as the home page and hosting team pages for all the NBA teams.

The application pulls stories, images, connections and quotes about team pages using the Topic APIs.

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.

You can get the wikipedia abstracts for topics (people, places and organizations) using a parameter include_wikipedia_info=1 in the API call topic_getInfo.

Wikipedia abstracts give a brief summary about the topic's background and helps the user quickly learn the basic information about the topic. A link to the wiki page for that topic is also returned.

For e.g., wikipedia abstract for Hillary Rodham Clinton below:

Folks at Turner built a portal for baseball news and topic pages for all MLB teams.

This MLB portal brings you stories, photos, quotes and connections for MLB as well as all the teams. For your convenience, listed below is a list of all the MLB topic IDs:

We have got more than a dozen requests for green topics. Daylife currently does not have pre-defined topics around "green concepts".

However, our partners at telegraph and treehugger have developed widgets and applications around green concepts by using our search APIs, thus, creating search based topics themselves.

Read below how to form these topics.

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.