About NewsCloud

NewsCloud was founded in 2005 by Jeff Reifman to create an open community to address the problems with consolidation of corporate media and censorship.

Originally named CommonTimes, the site was renamed in 2006 as NewsCloud.com. Please feel free to contact us with your feedback or for more information.

Site Credits

People

• Founder - Jeff Reifman, read his blog Idealog.us
• Co-founder - Garrett Moon
• Advisor - Alex Knight, Edge Labs
• Primary design - Lana Carlene
• Design assistance - Fair Trade Media and Paul Phillips
• General assistance - Brian Del Vechhio and Kellan Elliot-McCrea
• Architectural assistance - Chadwick Dahlquist, Todd Wallar

Code Libraries

• Platform - Linux Debian, Apache, PHP, MySQL
• Blog Journals - Modified version of MU WordPress
• Blog this - Dented Reality Blogging and Atom APIs
• RSS Parsing - Magpie
• RSS Creator - Derived from Feed Creator
• Email import wizard - Plaxo
• Safe HTML Checker
• Zip code tables and distance calculator
• Javascript Framework - Prototype with Scriptaculous
• Live comment preview - AJAX Textile
• Tree control - DHTML Goodies
• Generate password - Modified version of Jon Haworth
• Web services parsing example uses the modified Saxy Parser from PHPFlickr