Dave Starling » open platform http://davestarling.me Internet Architect Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Guardian Open Platform http://davestarling.me/2009/03/15/the-guardian-open-platform/ http://davestarling.me/2009/03/15/the-guardian-open-platform/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:11:22 +0000 Dave Starling http://thedavetoday.com/?p=54 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.

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