Newsmakers on the map is a design for a widget or html module that tracks the hot topics in news based on geographic locations. You mouse over or click on a particular region on the map to see the people that are getting the most coverage by the press in that region. You can then select one of those topics below the map and see the top 4 headlines from the sources in that region writing about that person.

Here is a design for a smaller version that can be developed as a grabbable widget.

Read more below to see what methodologies and API calls you will need to implement this design.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

Candidate Tracker is a design for a widget or a module on a page to bring together background information, news stories and pictures in one complete grabbable module. You should also be able to search for a candidate by typing in a name. For e.g., the design below shows the universe of John McCain in one succinct model. The picture gallery and the newsfeed sections are supposed to refresh automatically to move on to the next picture or news story.

You can use topic_getRelatedStories to build the newsfeed. topic_getRelatedImages can be used to build the picture gallery. As for background information, you can use the DayPI topic_getInfo to get a block of text that is the abstract summary from wikipedia. However, it does not give you a the broken down information as in this design.

For the background information, it would be a good idea to do a mashup with some other people search APIs. For e.g., the ZoomInfo API  - http://api.zoominfo.com/PartnerAPI/XmlOutput.aspx?query_type=people_search_query&pc=dn7vdjv2wjmcpepbj9zg8u7f&firstName=John&lastName=McCain

This is still an idea. If you would like to implement it for us, let us know.

The design below is for a widget or a simple HTML module that surfaces the topics with most coverage across different categories in news.

There are several methodlogies to determine the list of these top players in the different categories of news (categories are World, US, Business etc.). We will list a few below and suggest what DayPI calls can be used.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

The design below is for a widget or a banner html module that shows you the stories about people in the press in a very visually beautiful manner.

There are several methodlogies to determine the list of these top players in the different categories of news (categories are World, US, Business etc.). We will list a few below and suggest what DayPI calls can be used.

• For each category of news, maintain a list of top 100-200 topics. On a daily basis you can keep track of number of mentions in news for each of these players using the topic_getTimeline or the search_getCounts API. You can then select the top 10 mentioned players in each category to power the design above.

 

• For each category of news, maintain a list of sources that publish articles in that domain. You can use source_getTopics API call to get the list of most relevant topics in these sources. Trick is to carefully choose the list of sources for each category.

When the user clicks on one of these topics, call topic_getRelatedStories to pull stories about that topic. You can also use specific source filters for each category to ensure that the news shown for each topic is from the right category.

The background picture of related topics is a big part of this design. It might be a good idea to maintain a mapping on the client side for some of these topics to these visual images to make the design more effective.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

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.

The design below is for a widget that brings you photos from fashion shows around the world and let you explore them by selecting your favorite designers. You can extend the design also to let the user filter the photos by the specific fashion shows.

You will need licenses to photo feeds from Getty Images, Associated Press and/or Reuters Pictures to use any photos in this widget.

You can use search_getRelatedImages to get photos about a particular fashion show using the name of the show. E.g. New York Fashion Week 2008. Or you can use a query such as "fashion week" OR "fashion show" to get the latest pictures in fashion.

This is still an idea, but if you would like to give it a life - let us know.

Similar to the "By the numbers" idea, this is a design with a small twist - only prime numbers.

This is still an idea. If you would be interested in implementing it for us, let us know.

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.

This is a proposal about a project that we had submitted to the Netsquared Mashup Challenge. It proposes to create a mashup using Daylife and Twitter APIs.

If you would be interested in implement this idea, please drop us a note. 

This is a design for a photo gallery for a player, a celebrity, a politician, a game, an issue, a fashion show or anything in news that we have photos for.

You can use the Daylife APIs to pull these pictures about anything in the world.