Blogs have long been a home for personal essays and observations, but they’re also a key tool for citizen journalists. “What’s powerful about what the Web has done is it allowed a lot more voices and information to make it to the surface than ever before,” said Jeff Reifman, a Seattle software developer who worked at Microsoft for eight years. Reifman recently redesigned his news-aggregator site and changed its name from CommonTimes to NewsCloud. Now Newscloud has announced the release of the NewsCloud Service and APIs as part of its effort to make NewsCloud a fully open platform for
media distribution. The NewsCloud web services will allow other community developers to easily interact and expand the stories and features at NewsCloud.
NewsCloud’s Web Services consist of more than 50 interfaces (APIs) for
interacting with our Web site. Nearly everything you can do as a user
on the NewsCloud site can be done via our APIs from your own Web site.
If you want to, you can even create your own news site - or design
your own front page.
Here’s an example of using the NewsCloud API to create a custom Seattle city news page.
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