New York Times to release API
June 7, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
Traditional media is starting to catch up to the New World Order. The New York Times has recently announced that they will be releasing their API to allow users to mash up the immense amount of data they’ve got on their servers.
Marc Frons, chief technology officer for The New York Times‘ digital side, says the Times is working on several big projects, including what Frons calls “a news and information” platform.
The goal of the API overall is to make the NYT programmable. Once the API is finished, the Times‘ internal developers will use it to build platforms to organize all …read more




