Google opens source code of Living Stories

Neha Singh, a software developer and Josh Cohen, a senior product manager for.

In the past two months, journalists from the New York Times and Washington Post have experimented with. Living Story. , The new format of presentation of news on the Internet. Using the technology platform developed by Google, Times reporters were able to acquaint readers with such topics as global warming, the war in Afghanistan and the qualifying matches of the National Football League. Washington Post spoke with Living Stories of the health care reform on the season, Washington Redskins and the reform of the school system, the District of Columbia. Each tape can hold hundreds of Living Stories news about developments that are displayed on a single dynamic page.

Members enthusiastically adopted the Living Stories. we. were. test this concept in December, and from that moment 75% of users who have left your feedback on our site, they said that they prefer the traditional format of Living Stories of online news. It is important that users at every visit paid a significant amount of time items. All these facts confirm the need for quality journalism and new methods of presenting information.

Apart from our users we obraschalisi publishers interested in submitting their materials in a new format. Therefore, we decided it was time to move on to the next stage of the experiment and expand access to Living Stories. Today we. open source system. and give developers the ability to create your own page Living Story. Technical details can be found in. documentation for open source. And answers to frequently asked questions - on the help forum. Google News Help Forum. Now that the experiment turned into a public stage, New York Times and Washington Post completes its work with the version of Living Story on Google Labs. We want to thank them for their participation and look forward to continue working with them and many other publications as part of Living Stories and other long-term projects designed to improve the way of news on the Internet.

In the coming months we plan to create software tools to make the use of Living Stories the media even easier. In the meantime, we can not wait to see what interesting projects, developers can create, news reporters and editors using the source code Living Stories.