Twitter News Server

News moves quickly, and so do you. Now you can create and receive news alerts anywhere you can get a bar on your phone, if you have a Twitter account. You can find more information on our Twitter Tool page.

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Daylife Does Link Analysis

We've started to roll out a next-generation link analysis system, that will allow us to bring blogs to the fore, and will eventually be worked in to our system on several levels. You can view a prototype of a new application right now: our Labs list of top-linked articles. This page also has a new "Flush" feature. When you Flush the page, whatever articles are displayed, you'll never see them again.

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River of Opinion

We've mashed together a couple Daylife Labs and DayPI features to bring you a River of Opinion -- a stream of editorials broken out by category. This one blends our contextual source-rank algorithm, journalist profiles, opinion detection, and a real-time heat ranker that helps pull out hot topics in the news.

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SmartImage Contextual Images

Do you want to automatically bring great news images to your blog or website? Let our fancy image matching algorithms do the heavy lifting. Just include a short script on your web page or blog, or a reference to a dynamic JPEG, and we do the rest. Detailed instructions are available on how to include images, and options for guiding image matching and specifying image size.

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Source and Journalist Contextual Ranking

This is another experimental addition to our source and journalist centered news site. Why would you want to search every source on the planet for news? Who you get your news from is important, and we want to give you more control. When you perform a search, we analyze your search phrase and calculate a rank for each source and journalist given the context. Then we let you narrow your search down to specific sources. Or if you want to search the world's news, you can do that too.

Start with a general search of all sources, and get a list of recommended sources and journalists. Or search within a single source. You can also start with one of our Source Profile pages.

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Journalist Pages

This is an experimental news site centered around journalists and bloggers. Looking for articles from Paul Krugman, or Gina Kolata? You can get their latest articles, an RSS feed or Flash Widget for any one or combination of journalists, the topics they most frequently cover, a list of journalists who cover the same beat, and a word cloud built from their recent articles. You can also search our exhaustive list of jouranlists.

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SentimentAI

We have been working hard on various AI techniques for identifying editorials and sentiment. Interested in the pro and con positions for political candidates? Who's having a bad news day? Looking for a positive spin on the sub-prime mortgage crisis? We can't help you with that last one, but the others can be found using our Public API. We also have a cool widget that surfaces the best and the worst over the last few days.

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Daylife News Trends

Track news volume for various search terms using our extensive database. You can even build your own graph and permalink to it.

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Widgets! Widgets! Widgets!

We have a gallery of widgets that provide an easy and free way to draw upon our extensive catalog of news content and analysis. You are free to grab and use these on your own site or blog, and some of them can be customized to provide images and news using a search phrase or the name of a Daylife topic. At the right is a screen shot of our KittieDex, produced by a Guardian blogger, that pulled in half a million views in one week. Try creating your own Dex!

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User Slideshows

This is a simple tool that lets you star images on the Daylife site and build a slideshow out of them. You can even annotate the pictures yourself, or you can use the standard caption. Once you create the slideshow, you can view either a high resolution version hosted at daylife.com, or you can grab a shareable widget with lower resolution images. Check out our Gallery of Dopers, an example put together by a daylifer.

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2008 Election Coverage

We have several cool tools for browsing coverage of the primaries and election for our U.S. readers. This is a great showcase for some of the things you can do with our API. It displays coverage breakdowns by source, images, and weekly top quotes. Use it as a launching point to read up on the issues, or just flip around and have some fun.

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Most Popular Topics

Curious what topics other users are interested in? Checking for pulses? Try our most-viewed topics. We are also calculating the most clickable topics, a measure of how often a user clicks around a topic page. What's so interesting about the NASA topic page? The coolest pictures in the known universe, that's what!

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Top Quotes from Presidential Candidates

This is part of a study on how to extract and attribute quotes from news articles, and pull out the most popular quotes over a time period. This is all something you can do with our API. In this case, we're applying it to candidates in the 2008 US Presidential Election, and we have top quotes on a weekly basis going back to 2007.

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Red Carpet

A different kind of star sighting. See who’s showing up at the top parties, looking glam, and doing what they do best. We extract the names of the hottest Red Carpet affairs, organize images from them, and show you who's rolling with who.

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Project Universe

Explore a new view of the news through Universe. Click around a galaxy of information in this compelling display of connections generated through the Daylife platform.

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