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Live Map
Activities and comments, that were successfully geocoded, from the live feed on the NYTimes.com site.
Data is delayed only for geocoding and other basic operations. It is worth stressing that this is not representative of all activity since the Location field in user profiles isn't always properly used. Likewise, many commenters don't provide Location information.
I plan to add a stream of notifications on the right side with activity information and the option to toggle between TimesPeople and/or Comments.
Homepage
While still under active development, the Homepage Browser takes hourly snapshots of the core NYT homepage.
Currently the archive goes back into late 2008 and allows users to link to specific times and dates via Javascript and anchor links.
The small print: this is a working demo I wrote and is not endorsed by NYT.
NytUrl
Also under development, this is a NYT specific (but not affiliated) URL shortening service.
Super secret details to be announced soon. Well, not really - its just a matter of finding time to fix the code. As of writing this has been taken down as I didn't finish debugging some new code. Sorry.
TimesPeople Gadget
I wrote this ahead of the TimesPeople API launch. Its a Google Gadget that works in both the iGoogle and Gmail view.
By entering your user id, email, or TimesPeople URL you can display the feed of those you follow, or the live TimesPeople feed of all users.
While the code requires a much needed over-haul (usual excuses apply but it was written with one thing in mind then I changed direction half-way) it works!
Times People
Social layer to the NYTimes.com. Think Twitter, not Facebook. Launched as core part of nytimes.com in Sept 2008.
Travel
2005 Travel Redesign project (an era ago). Lead dev for section-front and topic page implementation.
It was my first try with Google Maps (5,000+ of them) and what really spurred me into playing with the various API's out there.
About
Michael Donohoe is a Brooklyn -based (web focused) developer from Ireland and does fun interweb things for The New York Times and fun non-work interweb things that are sometimes unrelated to The New York Times.
Sometimes he blogs on Open, but mostly it's just Twitter these days.
When not impossibly busy or referring to himself in the third person, he enjoys the rare glass of Green Spot, waging war in Inselkampf, microformats, playing with Times data, and doting over his patient wife and new daughter.
You can always get in touch by or looking me up on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Gadgets
Playing with 3rd Party API's - lots of fun Google stuff... from OpenSocial to Gears and more...
Linkage
- NYer - iPhone
- TimesMachine API
- The Last Word
- Times Now*
- Keyword Browser*
- * Old, incomplete, demo, or not actively maintained projects