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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
The Newsweek Threatmeter
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.
The DayPI Search calls used with source filtering power the Threatmeter. The application calls search_getRelatedArticles with three values for the parameter source_whitelist - Newsweek, The Washington Post and MSNBC. The other interesting filtering that Threat Meter does is that it only selects articles that have a negative spin score in the range of -5 to -10. This is what makes the Threat Meter float up the stories that have a "threat" perspective.
It also calls search_getCounts to calcualate an index score for the rise or fall in coverage of every issues on a duration of 2 weeks - very similar to how we build our index widgets.
The Threat Meter Widget below: