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Re: Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more

Javaun Moradi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:37:07 -0000

Nice post Chris! I did want to clarify some things about the NPR API.

The NPR API does include just about everything that we currently have the rights to distribute. There are some shows like "Fresh Air", "Car Talk", "Diane Rehm", etc. where NPR is involved in production or distribution but doesn't own the content rights. Other popular shows like "This American Life" and "Marketplace" aren't NPR shows at all, but are produced by other public radio companies like PRI and APM. Daniel Jacobson discusses the NPR API and rights on his blog post. Clearly, he wants to add more content to the API: http://www.npr.org/blogs/in...

Otherwise, you'll find just about everything else there, including full text and audio.

I'm not a lawyer and not familiar with the full TOS. But as a non-profit, non-commercial source of news and information, NPR.org is very careful about the separation between its content and any sponsorship that appears on the website. To fulfill the public's trust, we're very careful to keep this distinction.

Javaun Moradi, NPR

Re: Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more

Meghan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:17 -0000

I came across this new auction site (www.yasfa.com) recently and was intrigued by the concept, a combination of online auction, social networking and charity. Looks like they built the site around ad revenue, since they don’t collect fees for themselves. They do collect referral fees to give back to their members.

Re: Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more

Rajat — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:01:12 -0000

Love the concept of 'spoken search' esp. for mobile - I have iphone and still don't want to type in the small thing....

Re: Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more

Brick Marketing — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:55:22 -0000

Love the idea of "spoken web"... we currently are testing a "spoken search" feature on our BlackBerry - quite cool!

Re: Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more

mbb52 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:43:55 -0000

One good thing about this ride is that all the rug-heads can watch their bank-accounts go down. an the only other thing the US needs is cooking oil & that does not come from dinosaur. Come On Back America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!