Daylife

Publisher Suite

The Daylife Publisher Suite allowed publishers and marketers to deploy media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel.

Smart Galleries

Smart Galleries is a suite of tools that allowed publishers to create image galleries as customizable widgets or in full-page formats. Daylife and Getty Images launched Smart Galleries in September 2009 in conjunction with their investment announcement.

Smart Topics

Smart Topics were tools used by publishers to create media-rich pages on specific topics, linking to proprietary content and related media such as videos, images, links and tweets, selected by the publisher.

Smart Sections

Smart Sections were tools that allowed publishers to compose and launch full content sections on verticals, featuring real-time media from proprietary and outside sources selected by the editor.

Daylife APIs

Daylife's Developer APIs were a programming platform for media. The API served over 1.5 billion calls per month as of July 2011.

An example of the semantic web, Daylife analyzed a continuous stream of media content to enable dynamic news navigation by topic, country, journalist, medium, timeline, and geography.

History

Daylife was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Upendra Shardanand. The company released its APIs In 2008. In 2009, Daylife was named one of the "Top 50 Tech Startups" by BusinessWeek and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by ReadWriteWeb. Daylife was funded by Balderton Capital, Arts Alliance, The New York Times, and Getty Images. Angel investors include Michael Arrington, John Borthwick, Andrew Rasiej, and Dave Winer. Jeff Jarvis is a partner at Daylife. In 2012, Daylife was acquired by NewsCred.

References

References

1. Peter Kafka, [https://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090916/news-aggregator-daylife-ties-up-with-getty-4m-investment/ News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million Investment] September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
2. [https://venturebeat.com/2009/12/08/publishers-resource-daylife-launches-80000-plus-self-updating-multimedia-topic-pages/ Daylife gives publishers self-updating topic pages] [[VentureBeat]] December 8, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
3. [http://observer.com/2009/07/the-aggregator-that-newspapers-like/ Daylife, the Aggregator That Newspapers Like] ''[[The New York Observer]]'' July 28, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
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6. Robert MacMillan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922204113/http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/09/16/getty-images-invests-in-daylife-takes-snapshot-of-business/ Getty Images Invests in Daylife, Takes Snapshot of Business] [[Reuters]]. September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
7. Michael Surtees, [http://designnotes.info/?p=1978 A @Daylife Update: SmartSections and SmartTopics Launch : DesignNotes] December 4, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
8. Upendra Shardanand. (January 8, 2010). "Daylife Hits the One Billion Call Mark".
9. Jon Fine. (June 19, 2008). "Redirecting the Web's News Stream". BusinessWeek.
10. Marc Hedlund. (June 23, 2008). "Daylife's API for News". O'Reilly Radar.
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13. [https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/content-licensing-service-newscred-acquires-publishing-startup-daylife-appears-to-be-raising-more-funding/ Content Licensing Service NewsCred Acquires Publishing Startup Daylife, Appears To Be Raising More Funding] [[TechCrunch]]. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
14. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9615830/News-syndication-service-Newscred-buys-Daylife.html News syndication service Newscred buys Daylife] ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.