[NGO] Newscloud API

Jon Stahl jon at onenw.org
Thu Oct 12 15:23:39 UTC 2006


Just for the reocrd, the developer of NewsCloud, Jeff Reifman, is a good
friend of mine here in Seattle.  
 
If anyone is interested in meeting him, I'm sure I could get him to
swing by the Plone Conference.  

Let me know.
 
best,
jon
 

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	From: ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org
[mailto:ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org] On Behalf Of Nate Aune
	Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:47 AM
	To: A list for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) using
Plone.
	Subject: [NGO] Newscloud API (was: mailing list integration -
folks areworking on Sympa + Drupal integration)
	
	
	Another web service that we may want to consider interfacing
with is Newscloud. They have an REST API documented here:
http://newscloud.com/learn/apidocs/
	
	Below is a description of this new service: 
	
	For nonprofits, this means a new way to have members gather and
share news on
	important topics that are mission related - check out the custom
group and
	custom journal examples:
	
	Today we're announcing the release of the NewsCloud Web Service
and APIs as 
	part of our effort to make NewsCloud into a fully open platform
for media
	distribution. Our goal is to expand the potential for citizen
journalism by
	helping developers embrace and extend our work. The NewsCloud
web services will 
	allow other community developers to easily interact and expand
the stories and
	features at NewsCloud.com. We hope the result will be a variety
of cool
	mashups, customized Web sites with media content and a better
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.
	
	We've tried to make it easy for Web developers to make use of
our APIs with a
	simple PHP class. By using our NewsCloud PHP class with your
code, interacting 
	with data from our site becomes as easy as manipulating any PHP
array data.
	
	We've also built a number of examples for which we're sharing
the source code:
	The Cloud Report - a custom front page, a mini-text-based
version of NewsCloud 
	for PDAs, a customized version of your journal page (clippings
from all your
	news stories), a personal tag cloud, a custom group page
featuring Daily Show
	content, example sign in and registration forms, a keyword-based
image roll and 
	more. These are just a start - but the potential is vast. We'll
be improving
	and adding to the samples over time with help from our developer
community.
	We've also integrated AJAX using the Prototype Javascript
Framework into our 
	registration and voting example to show developers an easy way
to take
	advantage of the interactive elements we use on NewsCloud. We'll
be building
	more AJAX examples over time.
	
	All of our APIs are available via REST as described in our
documentation, so 
	you don't have to use PHP to get in on the fun.
	
	
	On 10/12/06, Rocky Burt <rocky at serverzen.com> wrote: 

		On Wed, 2006-11-10 at 19:56 -0700, Jon Stahl wrote:
		> Folks intersted in CMS + Mailing list integration
might find it 
		> interesting to note that our peers in Drupal-land are
working on
		> integrating Drupal with Sympa.
		>
		>
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-09/msg00032.html
<http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-09/msg00032.html> 
		>
		>
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-10/msg00002.html
		>
		>
http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Technical_Plan
		>
		>
http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Main_Page
		>
		> For those of you not already familiar with Sympa, it
is a solid,
		> battle-tested-at-scale email discussion list server.
It's Perl + MySQL.
		> But most significantly, it has a SOAP interface, which
is what makes 
		> cross-platform integration possible.  We have run
Sympa here at
		> ONE/Northwest for over five years now, serving over
180,000 users with
		> 1000+ lists.  It's good stuf.
		>
		> Thought it might be interesting for those who are
pondering these issues 
		> to have on their radar screen.  The issues and
use-cases they are
		> grappling with are quite similar to ours.
		
		I didn't realize having SOAP integration for mailing
list software was a
		useful feature.  If it truly is (and I'd like to hear
more use cases) 
		then it shouldn't be hard to expose the listen (the
plone mailing list
		thing by Alec M) api via SOAP.
		
		- Rocky
		
		--
		Rocky Burt
		ServerZen Software -- http://www.serverzen.com 
		News About The Server (blog) -- http://www.serverzen.net
		
		
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