UK: The Guardian relaunches website, incorporating non-proprietary (and free) services
Posted by Sarah Schewe on August 7, 2008 at 9:01 AM
The Guardian has recently spent millions to relaunch their website, guardian.co.uk, however, some features didn't cost a pound.
On Guardian blogs Lost in Showbiz, PDA, and Deadline USA, you'll now find an "Our Faves" feature, which displays items from a Guardian account on the social bookmarking service Delicious. The Showbiz blog can even be personalized by a readers who are also Delicioius users, with a "Your Faves" tab, where relevant web pages tagged by the user with "Showbizspotted" will display on the Guardian blog, as well.
Also on the Lost in Showbiz blog, you'll see another box, "Latest Fashion and Showbiz blog posts," which aggregates headlines from five non-Guardian blogs, generated by Yahoo Pipes and delivered to the Guardian via a Google Gadget.
As Poynter points out, "Culturally, this is a hard thing for many news organizations."
None of these services - Delicious, Google Gadgets, nor Yahoo Pipes - are owned by The Guardian. It's an issue which leaves many news sites fearing a lack of control.
"Increasingly, though, they're learning that integrating other online services into their site tends to work better than unwieldy custom software," continues the Poynter column. "It's not just cheaper -- it's also much, much quicker."
Source: Poynter
On Guardian blogs Lost in Showbiz, PDA, and Deadline USA, you'll now find an "Our Faves" feature, which displays items from a Guardian account on the social bookmarking service Delicious. The Showbiz blog can even be personalized by a readers who are also Delicioius users, with a "Your Faves" tab, where relevant web pages tagged by the user with "Showbizspotted" will display on the Guardian blog, as well.
Also on the Lost in Showbiz blog, you'll see another box, "Latest Fashion and Showbiz blog posts," which aggregates headlines from five non-Guardian blogs, generated by Yahoo Pipes and delivered to the Guardian via a Google Gadget.
As Poynter points out, "Culturally, this is a hard thing for many news organizations."
None of these services - Delicious, Google Gadgets, nor Yahoo Pipes - are owned by The Guardian. It's an issue which leaves many news sites fearing a lack of control.
"Increasingly, though, they're learning that integrating other online services into their site tends to work better than unwieldy custom software," continues the Poynter column. "It's not just cheaper -- it's also much, much quicker."
Source: Poynter
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