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Get Me Rewrite! Developing APIs and the Changing Face of News
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- Description:
- In the past year, several major media producers have rolled out APIs to open up and remix their content. This panel assembles several noted developers of media APIs to discuss their experiences with the process: the technical hurdles, the internal arguments, the surprising ways in which people have discovered new ways of looking at the news.
- Questions
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- What are some notable media APIs?
- Why should your newspaper/magazine/etc. create APIs?
- What are some common considerations for creating an API?
- How do you moderate access, prevent abuse, and protect intellectual property?
- What new revenue models are possible with APIs?
- What are the most surprising things we've seen people do with our APIs?
- What's the fastest and cheapest ways for a newspaper to get started?
- What about user-generated content? How does that mesh with standard editorial workflows?
- What sort of APIs should you offer? What data formats are required?
- What things are coming next for APIs from the big media companies?
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- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Content
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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