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...

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.

I have written a PHP script that generates RSS feeds for articles by calling Daylife's search APIs for any topic, queries, tags or events happening in the world.

Each item in the RSS feeds contains an article headline, description, published time and link to the original source of the article. To produce a desired RSS feed of your interest, you can use the script that I have hosted by forming a URL that looks like:

http://www.buzzingblog.com/dayliferss/rss.php?query=<search term of your choice>

For e.g.,

http://www.buzzingblog.com/dayliferss/feed.php?query=Barack%20Obama

Read more about Daylife's Search query syntax to form your queries intelligently.

You can also specify the number of items you want to pull in the feed using a limit parameter. So your final URL will looks like

http://www.buzzingblog.com/dayliferss/feed.php?query=Barack%20Obama&limit=20

The last parameter that the script allows is source_filter_id. Read more about source filters here to learn how you can restrict your search to a limited number of sources.

With the availability of RSS feeds on top of the Daylife API, opportunities to build news applications are endless. The script calls the Daylife API on every request and builds the RSS feed in real time. Webmasters can use RSS generator to produce feeds on desired topics to feed them their Drupal/Joomla or any other RSS supported content management systems.

You can download the script and run it on your own server, in case, you want to customize it. You will need to substitute your own accesskey and shared secret that you received from Daylife to make the script work.

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.

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.

Starledger's NCAA Bracket Blog BracketBoy got a uplift with a new fabulous design and the latest news, photos and quotes about NCAA teams using the DayPI.

BracketBoy comes from the same folks as Pharmalot. The star developer Hassan is now a DayPI expert and integrated DayPI in the Python web framework Django.