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- Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs
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  NewsCloud has an extensvie set of APIs as well. Just visit our Help page for more information.
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- NewsCloud Featured on NewAssignment
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  For obvious reasons open source journalism tends to focus on text and content. The long term goal, however, isn’t just to create individual articles or investigations, but develop a method for citizen journalists to collaborate online. Having an open codebase like NewsCloud’s, with customizable reader pages and nightly autoposting to blogs...
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- NewsCloud Released as Open Source Media Platform
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  While the blogosphere has dramatically expanded the ability for important stories and diverse views to get traction, it's important for the platforms which promote mainstream news, blogs and citizen-powered journalism to be open to public access.
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- NewsCloud Publishes Reporting on YouTube's Comedy Central Takedowns
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  Tonight, NewsCloud publicly released its reporting engine on YouTube's ongoing takedowns of Comedy Central material with its Summary Reports and Video Search. Our video search can only be used to find clips by keyword to determine whether the videos are still available or not. While Viacom has released public statements saying that they were targeting YouTube with requests to take down whole episodes, I found the takedowns to be fairly indiscriminate. For example, 63% of Daily Show clips (and 58% of all shows) taken down were less than 5 minutes in length. We also wanted to get a sense of the number of page views just our subset of video clips had generated for YouTube over time - this also represents potential lost revenue for Viacom. Just the subset of broken clips with view count information left in the Google cache represents 14,867,004 viewings. While the live videos at YouTube represent 23,322,598 viewings. Or, 38,189,602 combined.
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- YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The action was “a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central,” according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud.
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- NewsCloud Releases Open Media Web Services and API
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  Today we're announcing the release of the NewsCloud Web Service and APIs as part of our effort to make NewsCloud into a fully open platform for media distribution. Our goal is to expand the potential for citizen journalism by helping developers embrace and extend our work. The NewsCloud web services will allow other community developers to easily interact and expand the stories and features at NewsCloud.com. We hope the result will be a variety of cool mashups, customized Web sites with media content and a better NewsCloud.
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- Beth's Blog: NewsCloud and other thoughts about collaborative knowledge sharing
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  Beth has a great write up on NewsCloud that I wanted to share with folks: "Here's what I found interesting about their newsgathering process. They offer multiple strategies for readers to contribute news. ... I love the "two-way synchronization" and makes say "gee whiz" at the collaboration community filtering going on and makes me wonder about how and where the human editing or newsmastering comes into play. Is it all automated? NewsCloud is a fairly new community and will be interesting to where it goes.
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Damianmann comments on:
YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips

It’s a mistake to buy up websites these days. Myspace is losing users and amount of time spent on the site by users.So, these things run in rather short cycles. Kids move on to something else.

If Democracy player gets it together, they could take over as the way to see video on the web. Who knows?

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2:08 pm 10/30/06
Jeff comments on:
YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips

I wonder if the acquisition will fall thru now. It’s not final. But mostly I think google knew this would happen and bought the company anyway.

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10:15 am 10/30/06
Billbar comments on:
YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips

I surmise YouTube just went from being worth $1.65 billion to $1.65.

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10:07 am 10/30/06
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We don’t even know each other – but I appreciate that you see the good will behind NewsCloud and the personal effort. That laptop in the picture is – as I type this – NewsCloud :)

As for whether NewsCloud will eventually be for profit or non profit – this issue hasn’t been fully decided yet. The more I see of the problems in media – the more obvious that the problems are connected reliance on advertisers and profit—- hence nonprofit has its allure.

However, I do need to get paid for this work at some point. Finding a way to support the site either through foundations – or advertising revenue will be important. I just want to be up front that the ultimate direction of the site has not yet been determined. A lot will depend on how it grows – and what opportunities exist out there in the foundation world. I am actively looking into these currently…

Thanks again for your enthusiasm.

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