Wordle is a toy (nifty tool) for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Wordle also lets you create these "word clouds" using a RSS feed. Sumit Kataria has written a PHP script to generate RSS feeds from DayPIs for any search term you have. Just a perfect fit to use with Wordle!

Here is a RSS feed for Barack Obama - http://develop.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=%22Barack%20Obama%22

Feed it to Wordle on http://wordle.net/create and here is what you get

Another RSS feed for "Global Warming" OR "Climate Change" - http://develop.daylife.com/demos/feed.php?query=%22Global%20Warming%22%2...

And here is its Wordle! -

A news search website with options for in-depth search, a new way of reading news - Deliciously and an OpenSocial application Snap News for Orkut to share your favourite news items with friends

The most interesting: when the news is served Deliciously

The site Jaxly (http://jaxly.com) , a news engine, is a mashup, that provides in-depth news search.

Google Docs presentation link

. News Search options:

• News by geographic region
• News by time line
• News with related conversations made by people on Twitter, recent events relating to the news

News served Deliciously

This allows you to read news by your Del.icio.us tags. You bookmark stuff on Delicious only when you like them. Which means you have tags which you like. So why not use them to read news? The site gets more interesting when you start reading news Deliciously Check it out! Thats the part I love. I had a friend who said "Oh! its addicting" :)

Share news via Snap News

News is always hot!!! Now share news with your friends via Snap News on Orkut.

Newsweek is using the DayPIs to build an interactive application called the Threat Meter. A user can rate the different issues on the Threat Meter and read negatively opinionated stories (threats!) published by Newsweek and their partners The Washington Post and MSNBC related to the issues.

Once the user has rated the issues, he can see the overall ratings as well as read more about the issues.

The Threat Meter is also available as a widget to put it up on your own blog or facebook profile.

Read more below about the DayPI calls that Newsweek uses to power this application.

Spicy News ChillX.com core focus is to provide our community a place to interact with like minded people and provide functionality that’s relevant to the target audience.

It’s about providing features that member’s request. Before we went about integrating Daylife we studied our members habits, based on this we worked closely with Daylife to provide News relevant to our members’ taste. If someone just wants to read news there are leading portals that provide this so what's different…. Our differentiating factor was to build a theme around providing content that is appealing to our target audience. In India most people love to know about certain key topics such as the gossip of their favorite bollywood star, Cricket, about stocks, etc. We made these topics accessible in an easy to use manner.

The problem is that contextually related information even within a single website is spread across the entire site. To find the related information requires a significant amount of searching and digging. In order to resolve this we designed our news section based on predictive modeling of context and the member’s interest at a given point in time.

To see an example of who are the most popular role models in India you could visit ChillX Spice Pages

To see an example of the most interesting News articles about a specific topic such as Bollywood you could visit the following link ChillX Bollywood News
and click on the Bollywood News tab on this page, this provides the most interesting news articles instead of every article.

Our members gave feedback through out the development cycle thus enabling us to display specific popular news that was of interest, rather than have general categories like most News portals.

Relevant aggregation was key to our Spicy News section and Daylife provided us the ability to do this.

In summary the Application provides:

1) Topic to Topic related navigation. Barack Obama Versus George W. Bush OR What is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Doing in India

2) Contextual (to India) search based on a dynamic, hottest, popular topics that's relevant to a specific demographic (India).

3) Pre-Populated search page with dynamic contextually related topics

4) Adapting the Information model based on member’s interest. This focuses both on topics and articles, here the display priority and grouping by context is continuously adjusted based on interest.

5) News Ticker: Automatically rotates most attractive news items (blue area at top of pages) - ChillX Spice Pages

 

Zemanta is a tool that makes blogging fun again! by helping bloggers find related articles, images, tags and in-text links to their blog posts as they are writing them on their individual blogging platforms. You simply install the Zemanta Firefox or IE plugin or a Wordpress or MovableType plugin and you are all set to start using the Zemanta pool of suggested articles and images to make your blog posts more relevant and interesting. And integration can't get any slicker.

The Zemanta plugin calls the Daylife Search APIs to find Getty Images related to the text of the blog posts that a blogger is writing. The images from Daylife provide a great pool of relevant content for the blog posts.

Just imagine what is possible if you use the editor that actually understands what you are writing about and helps you make your post, article or page better with suggestions that you can instantly use.

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.

http://scheedule.com/~gschech2/Hack/PsychicSearch/

Psychic Searcher analyzes your content and delivers you with relevant resources. Psychic Searcher breaks the traditional ideas of having the user initiate the gathering of resources, by showing relevant items as the user is writing.

Imagine if you were a student writing a paper. Psychic Searcher could analyze what you were writing about and deliver you with the news articles, images, and search results that you need to write your paper.

Psychic Searcher is just an example how what can be done with context analysis. Ideally a tool like Psychic Searcher would be integrated into a text editor like Microsoft Word. It could be used as a tool to retrieve information and images that might be useful to the user. This could be more effective because we could do a context analysis on just the active paragraph. Psychic Searcher is by no means a replacement text editor, but is rather some exploratory development in enhancing the user’s ability to gather information asynchronously.

Developed By Greg Schechter gregthebusker@yahoo.com

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems along with Wordpress and Joomla.

This basic DayPI drupal module lets you create a block with headlines about any topic you want. You can also host a search page that lets any user to search news from around the web on your website.

The Communication Initiative (The CI) network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change. They use this drupal module to present recent news about areas of their interest in the right navigation bar of their site.

Peterman's Eye is a web portal where J. Peterman wants to build a marketplace for ideas. A place where people can educate, entertain and discuss with each other topics they find interesting.

Peterman's Eye has integrated with the DayPIs to create tools for their editors to discover interesting news stories from around the world everyday and selectively put them on the site.

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.