RE: [backstage] Open Platform from the Guardian to make online content available free
So this is great news for all of us. The more data for people to play with the better. I can spot some neat mashups between BBC and Guardian data. Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk work: +44 (0)1612444063 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Fearghas McKay Sent: 10 March 2009 09:35 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Open Platform from the Guardian to make online content available free http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform key quote hidden towards the end "The Guardian is positioning its Open Platform as a commercial venture, requiring partners to carry its advertising as part of its terms and conditions, while BBC Backstage states clearly that its proposition is for individual developers designers and not for "big corporates"." opening quote about free at the beginning... "The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of the internet"." - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Open Platform from the Guardian to make online content available free
Fearghas, I thought about moving that paragraph up closer to the top so it was clear that the content wasn't 'free as in beer'. I would say that there are actually two parts to this launch, the content API, which requires carrying ads, and the Data Store. There will still be ad-free syndication arrangements. Matt McAllister is writing a blog post about that right now. I'll have to double check, but I don't think that there are the same ad T&Cs for the Data Store. We're hoping to collect a lot of data sets for that. best, Kevin Anderson Guardian On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Fearghas McKay wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform > > key quote hidden towards the end > > "The Guardian is positioning its Open Platform as a commercial venture, > requiring partners to carry its advertising as part of its terms and > conditions, while BBC Backstage states clearly that its proposition is for > individual developers designers and not for "big corporates"." > > opening quote about free at the beginning... > > "The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow > partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it > "into the fabric of the internet"." > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
