Chris comes to us from The Guardian, one of Britain’s arch newspapers

If you’re absorbed in the approaching of media, you’re traveling to wish to be at cobweb 2010 on May 18 and 19 for our media keynote: Chris Thorpe. Chris comes to us from The Guardian, one of Britain’s arch newspapers, area he is the Developer Advocate in allegation of the paper’s Accessible Platform. This puts him at the beginning of one of the a lot of alluring frontiers in the media industry: namely, the transformation of acceptable media entities such as newspapers into digital-information casework that deliver their agreeable in a array of altered means online. And sometimes that involves experimenting too: an abrupt acknowledgment during a cafeteria presentation by Clay Shirky, for example, afresh led to the conception of a “ChatRoulette for news” alleged Guardian Roulette.
The Guardian’s Accessible Platform is based on an accessible API (i.e, appliance programming interface) agnate to that provided by Google, Twitter, Facebook and added companies provide, which allows developers and programmers to use The Guardian’s agreeable in a array of ways, and body it into third-party casework at no cost. The New York Times aswell has an accessible API, but it alone provides admission to a baby allotment of the argument in anniversary story, admitting The Guardian’s provides the abounding argument of every story.
In a blog column endure year, British MP Tom Watson wrote:
I’m not bowled over abundant these days. But Guardian Accessible Platform is a chasmic bound into the future. It is a plan of simplistic adorableness that I’m abiding will accept a affecting appulse in the account market. The Guardian is already a bazaar baton in the online amplitude but Accessible Platform is revolutionary. It makes all of their above competitors attending timid. Governments should be accomplishing this. Governments will be accomplishing it. The catechism is how continued will it yield us to bolt up. (British MP Tom Watson)