The Guardian Open Platform
// March 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Platforms, Web
The Guardian recently announced their Open Platform – the UK’s answer to the New York Times‘ own API. As Egon Spengler rightly pointed out in the mid-80s: “print is dead”, and it’s only the more progressive publications that stand a chance of surviving in these penny-pinching times.
The Open Platform is an example of an API done well, and I’m very keen to see try fitting this into some of the work we’re doing at Imagini with our VisualDNA Platform. The idea of recommending content from a massive pool of providers – be they products, articles, videos, or photos – based on a user’s VisualDNA, or their similarity to another user’s VisualDNA, is quite appealing.
There are already some fine examples and proofs of concept out there, and I can only hope that the web community firmly utilises the potential.
