By making use of the DayPI, USA Today was able to take turn a stream of content generated by a staff editor into Cruise Log, a deep and rich minisite focused on cruise vacations.

USA Today is using Daylife to power their Cruise Log section, full of information for people looking for the best deals, locations, news, and tips for cruise travel.

Read more below.

Indexes help you create fun widgets to keep track of the coverage that topics of your interest are getting. The Index Creator in our labs section helps your create an index widget in few minutes with upto 12 topics/queries that you care about.

However, if you want an index widget with more customizations, you can use our News Indexer code to generate the data files for such a widget. Some examples of these customizations could be a an index with

• more than 12 items (for e.g., CNNMoney's Meme-o-meter Index) OR
• restrict the results to a particular set of sources (for e.g. Cruisedex restricts the results to travel sources only) OR
• build an index with different durations to compare (for e.g. last month/this month index)

Remember, this code lets you generate the XML data files for an index widget. You will have to then build the UI for the widget that consumes this XML.

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.

Mydeco built an innovative widget for tracking trendsetting designers and stores in the interior design industry.

TreeHugger uses Daylife to power its TreeHugger GRNDX, revealing current press coverage of environmental topics.

You can read more about how to form green topics on our cookbook entry.

• Download it here
• Test it here

This news indexer sample is what we use to power the indexer widgets for Treehugger and CNN's Meme-o-meter

CNNMoney uses Daylife to power the Meme-o-meter, which tracks how much (or how little) various technology memes are being discussed in news and blogs.

This widget is one of the several examples of our Index Widgets. CNNMoney went one step further than creating a dex widget by building news page for each item that the dex tracks. For e.g.  a news page on Social Networking.