Newspaper sites need open APIs
Posted by matt on 22 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Newspapers, media, myspace, marccanter, socialnetworks, api, tribune, facebook
Marc Canter predicts that five more roach motels will open their doors by Christmas, pressured by the clever Facebook move to offer APIs .
It certainly won’t happen by Christmas, but I’ve pleaded with others involved in product development that the Tribune family of newspaper sites offer APIs, especially as we ramp up aggregation and user-generated content.
If newspapers are serious about getting a piece of the social network pie, which includes photos, blogs and video produced and shared by its users, then they had better think about how they are going to share that content back with the network, or else they will also be one step behind, like MySpace is to Facebook.
