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TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for:
Twitter,
Flickr,
Google Maps,
YouTube,
Vimeo,
Dailymotion,
Wikipedia,
SoundCloud
and more media types in the future.
Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON.
Tips and tricks to best utilize TimelineJS.
Keep it short, and write each event as a part of a larger narrative.
Pick stories that have a strong chronological narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the timeline.
Include events that build up to major occurrences. Not just the major events.
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How to use APIs from Twitter, Google & Facebook to find data, ideas Katharine Jarmul by Katharine Jarmul Published Aug. 8, 2011 1:27 pm Updated Aug. 9, 2011 12:02 am As more and more journalists are finding, APIs are a great way to get data for your Web applications and projects. An API, or application programming interface, enables software programs to communicate with one another. (Chrys Wu wrote a helpful intro here.) To give you a better understanding of how they can help you, I've outlined some of the best APIs for finding content and explained how you can use open-source programming tools to glean information from them.
