Guardian Goes Open
May 26, 2010
Darned interesting write up this: “What We Can Learn From the Guardian’s New Open Platform”. Some of the GigaOM analysis roils the water in the goose pond. This particular article makes several good points. The key for us in Harrod’s Creek was this comment:
The vehicle for this change is its “Open Platform,” which launched last week and involves an open application programming interface (API) that developers can use to integrate Guardian content into services and applications. The newspaper company has been running a beta version of the platform for a little over a year now, but took the experimental label off the project on Thursday and announced that it’s “open for business.” By that The Guardian means it’s looking for partners that want to use its content in return for licensing fees or to enter into a revenue-sharing agreement of some kind related to advertising.
The write up wants the Guardian to do more. My hunch is that the Guardian will do more. Prudence is not a virtue in Silicon Valley. It is in Manchester. What can one learn from British reserve? Quite a lot I think.
Stephen E Arnold, May 26, 2010
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