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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.
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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
indexes
Build a customized index widget
April 4 2008 - 13:53 By vineetIndexes 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.
