Robert Scoble posted yesterday about his visit to the New York Times offices and included a bunch of videos he did in their R&D department showing off the cool stuff they are investing in.
If you’re involved in the newspaper business, you should really check out what they are doing. The Times has consistently stayed on top of the heap by making their content available to as many people as many ways as possible. This is why they are the newspaper whose online readership is closest to their print readership.
They’ve had a mashup with Google Earth now for a while.
Soon, they’ll be the dominant news source on all kinds of mobile devices, and you have to admit that a print on demand newspaper stand is one of the best ideas ever.
Oh and they’ve announced the Times Machine now, too. Which is a New York Times subscriber benefit.
Man these guys get it. To borrow a phrase from Wall Street: Long NYT.
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I think what every one missed with this launch was the opening of an ‘API of sorts’ …
All the data for TimesMachine has been published and can be used by anyone
Here is a starting point - you can figure it out from there:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/page.archive.nytimes.com/1910/09/19/index.js
http://s3.amazonaws.com/page.archive.nytimes.com/1910/09/19/P1/data.js
-dr
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