APIs: The new distribution

Buzzmachine by Jeff Jarvis | Mar. 10, 2009 (Comment)

(Blog Post) The Guardian just announced that it is releasing all its content through an API as well as making available many different data sets through a data store, all of which can be mashed up into others’ sites and applications. Full Story »

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by Dan Kennedy - Mar. 11, 2009

As Jarvis notes, The Guardian will make its content freely available to be used by a wide variety of third-party platforms, as long as those using it agree to carry Guardian advertising. Jarvis could have done a better job of helping us visualize what this will look like in practice.

Disclosure: I am paid to write a weekly online column for The Guardian. For that matter, so is Jarvis, and he disclosed that at the end of his item.

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