A few days ago, The Guardian launched the Guardian Open Platform.
The Open Platform provides a suite of services that makes it possible for partners to build applications with the Guardian.
What this means is that third party developers can repurpose content from the Guardian and push it out beyond the Guardian website.
Some of the applications in development mode;
Stamen Design created a crowdsourced news geotagger using OpenStreetMap. Anyone can select Guardian articles and add place tags using their tool. You’ll be able to view a map and see a series of pinpoints which will correlate to specific stories.
Zemanta is a content analysis service that can create links to the open web when you give it text. They created a beautiful search utility that maps related links off Guardian articles to sites like wikipedia, imdb, last.fm
I’m completely enamoured by Zemanta. It’s perfect for anyone compiling research from various media sources.
Type a search term and it’ll suggest relevant tags, links, photos, and related articles. Here’s a screenshot of a quick search on Jade Goody (refrain from laughing please!) 
Check out the demo here.
