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...

Olympics.USAToday.com is showing coverage from sources all around the world for Olympics 2008 using the Daylife APIs. This portal has a page for every sport at the Olympics, and, in addition to its own coverage, USA Today is showing stories published by other sources on these pages.

TNT.tv launches a NASCAR drivers portal using the Daylife APIs. The portal shows stories, connections, quotes and photos for each driver.

The portal uses the Topic APIs like topic_getRelatedStories, topic_getRelatedTopics, topic_getRelatedQuotes and topic_getRelatedImages to get data about each player.

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! -

Sky News provides in-depth news and content about hot topics in news using the Daylife API Platform. Sky news tracks coverage of hundreds of relevant topics and surfaces the rising topics on the Sky News home page. These topic pages provide in-depth content about the topic by showing related Sky News stories, a gallery of images, quotes and connections. Each topic page also shows the latest news stories from Sky News' partners and from sources all around the world to provide a global perspective on the topic.

The Sky News topic pages use the Topic APIs (with source filtering) to show all the articles, images, quotes and connections for the topic. Each topic page also shows some Background information about the topic using the Wikipedia excerpt returned by topic_getInfo API.

The "Show Connections" link for every connection on a topic page help you discover the articles and images that are related to both the topic and the connection. This feature calls the Search APIs and uses the names of the topic and the connection joint by the AND operator as the query.

Purina created Pet Charts, a curated collection of the best pet stuff online. This is the first application of the Daylife platform by an international marketer creating a unique content destination for viewers.

Pet Charts is a great example of a DayPI powered application that creates a huge inventory of content for an editor to choose and pick from. Pet Charts pulls positive stories about dogs and cats from the DayPI and stores it in a data store. An editor has a publisher console to pick the stories that they think is the most relevant and promote it to the Pet Charts web portal. Pet Charts also pulls photos from Flickr and videos from Youtube. A user can vote up and down any story, photo or video and the community can float up the cute pets.

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.

Snaptalent is a recently launched startup that is building a new platform for recruitment advertising that is more effective. Snaptalent provides tools to companies to build compelling ads for recruiting the right people that a company would like to target.

The developers at Snaptalent integrated with the Daylife APIs and launched news for companies in record time - 3 days. Every job page on Snaptalent shows articles and quotes for that company in mainstream news sources and the blogs.

PharmaGossip has created a useful Pharma News Widget using the Custom News Feed Builder. You can build your custom news feed by selecting upto 6 journalists and 6 sources using the Newsfeed Wizard. The Widget then displays published by any of those sources or written by any of those journalists.

Read more below to learn how this news feed has been built.

Universe pulls stories, quotes, photos and connections from the Daylife API using the Search and Topic APIs. It generates the words cloud from the headlines and article excerpts that are returned by the API. The map is powered by extracting place topics from each article.