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Using Google's Haiti Missing Persons Widget
January 17, 2010 Google has published an easy-to-use widget that allows people to search or submit missing persons from the Haiti earthquake.
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Introducing The NPR Gadget For iGoogle
September 2, 2009 NPR has released its first gadget for iGoogle. Powered by the NPR API, it allows iGoogle users a convenient way to access and experience NPR content.
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API Presentation at CPB
August 24, 2009 NPR gave a presentation on the API to the staff of CPB. This presentation was the first in a series that Rob is hosting to expose the staff of the CPB to the rapidly changing technology advancements in the digital media space. Come download and ...
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NPR, the API and OSCON 2009
August 11, 2009 It has been more than a year since NPR released our API and formally announced it at OSCON 2008. A lot has happened since that initial release, including a range of enhancements like our Station Finder API, Mix Your Own Podcast and the Full Trans...
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Coming Soon : NPR App on Symbian Platform
August 3, 2009 By Daniel Jacobson and Robert Spier A few weeks ago, Symbian announced their new Horizon publishing program designed to enable and assist developers in building applications for mobile devices that run Symbian software. Horizon will be going li...
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API Update : New Transcript API and Much More
July 29, 2009 With the new site launch, NPR has also made some significant changes to the API. Most notably, we have added our new Transcript API. Find out what other changes we made and tell us what else you would like to see in our API.
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Announcing OSCON Media Mashup with NPR and NYT
July 8, 2009 NPR has teamed up with The New York Times to present Media Mashup at OSCON, 2009. The event will be from 12:30 - 2:30 on Friday, July 24th. Please join us for free food, toys, and a lot of talk about APIs and code.
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Upcoming Changes to the API
June 25, 2009 In the next month or so, we will be making some significant changes to NPR.org. Some of these changes are visual, while others are architectural. As a result, there will likely be an impact on the API. That said, we did put in a lot of effort...
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NPR's API Rights Management
June 8, 2009 Rights management is a critical aspect of distribution. As a result, we built a tiered permission scheme and a rights management filtering layer into our API. Find out what is involved in rights management and how NPR addressed this problem.
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NPR.org Nominated for 5 Webby, 2 EPpy
April 27, 2009 It has been a couple of rewarding weeks here at NPR.org. We recently received notice that we had five Webby nominations and 2 Webby honoree mentions. Last week it was announced that we are finalist for two EPpy awards including one for the NPR ...
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New API Feature : Create Your Own XML Output
April 6, 2009 Today, we have launched a new feature to the API that allows you to modify our NPRML elements to whatever you want, so your API requests can fit your existing applications without you having to change your code. The remap function allows any node...
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API Update : "Day to Day" and "News & Notes" To Be Retired
March 19, 2009 NPR is retiring "Day to Day" and "News & Notes" on Friday, March 20, 2009. Although these programs will no longer be producing new shows, all of the archival content will continue to be available on NPR.org and through the NPR API.
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Seeking Feedback for SXSW API Session
March 11, 2009 Daniel Jacobson will on a panel at SXSW talking about APIs. This session will be on Sunday at 3:30pm. As we prepare for this panel, we would like to know what you want us to discuss.
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NPR Roadshow cont'd
February 13, 2009 As follow up from my post back in November there are a number of events upcoming to hear and meet with folks from NPR Digital Media first hand. Feb. 19-21 - IMA Public Media 09 For those in Public Broadcasting family we hope to see you next...
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Clean Content = Portable Content
February 4, 2009 One of the most important things for content producers is to remain relevant to their users. With content becoming more readily available to these users through distribution channels, it is up to these content producers to make sure the content i...