Mass medias' Social Web

In an experimental project, the Guardian is collaborating with Yeeyan, a ground-breaking community translation website, to offer Chinese language versions of a selection of articles daily.

The Guardian newspaper in the UK has today launched its open API which will carry all the content the newspaper produces in print and online. That’s over a million articles which go back to 1999. The “Open Platform” will allow allow partners to reuse Guardian.co.uk content and data for free, in a clear move to try and make the The Guardian an all pervasive part of the Web

You already know that NYTimes.com is an unparalleled source of news and information. But now it's a premier source of data, too — why just read the news when you can hack it?

A blog about open-source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers. This includes our own projects, our work with open-source technologies at NYTimes.com, and other interesting topics in the open-source and Web 2.0 worlds.

The first step was aggregating a user’s public actions and making it possible to share those activities with other TimesPeople users. This didn’t really “give back” to the social Web, but now the API is available — and that means your TimesPeople data can be syndicated and used all over the Web.

We are pleased to announce the initial release of The New York Times Article Search API.

Our new Custom Times Feeds tool provides a simple, customizable and familiar way to get news and information about almost anything you can think of.