Daylife offers on-demand features and media apps served from the cloud. It provides digital media management tools and content feeds to publishers, brand marketers, and developers. Daylife was founded in 2006 and has raised $15M investment to date, most recently from strategic investor Getty Images^[1]. The company is headquartered in downtown New York City.

Daylife's products include the Daylife Publisher Suite, a range of APIs, and a set of hosted solutions including Smart Topics, Smart Galleries, and Smart Sections^[2]. The hosted solutions were all launched in partnership with Getty Images, and they allow publishers to source, manage and compose sites, media components, pages, and complete sections of content. Daylife's technology analyzes over 100,000 curated content feeds and allows publishers to curate and automate media to enhance proprietary content^[3].

Clients include USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, NPR, Mashable, Sky News, Forbes, Thomson Reuters, and over 80 others^[4].

Publisher Suite[link]

The Daylife Publisher Suite allows publishers and marketers to deploy on-demand media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel with a few clicks. All the features and apps are managed from a simple browser-based dashboard.

Hosted Solution: Smart Galleries[link]

SmartGalleries is a suite of tools that allow publishers to create image galleries as customizable widgets or in full-page formats. Publishers can hand-select images or automatically fill galleries based on keywords. Daylife and Getty Images launched SmartGalleries in September 2009^[5] in conjunction with their investment announcement.

Hosted Solution: Smart Topics[link]

SmartTopics are tools for 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^[6].

Hosted Solution: Smart Sections[link]

SmartSections are tools that allow publishers to compose and launch full content sections on verticals like Travel or Basketball, featuring real-time media from proprietary and outside sources selected by the editor^[7].

Daylife APIs[link]

Daylife's Developer APIs are a programming platform for media. They are highly flexible and scalable, serving over 1.5 billion calls per month as of July 2011^[8].

These APIS let developers source, combine, and synthesize news and media content into applications. The APIs ingest, parse, and analyze media content, exposing hundreds of ways to query it and then deliver it at scale. Both free and paid access is available.

An example of the semantic web, Daylife analyzes a continuous stream of media content, maps connections between news topics, and enables dynamic news navigation by topic, country, journalist, medium, timeline, and geography^[9].

History[link]

Daylife was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Upendra Shardanand. The company released its APIs in 2008^[10]. In 2009, Daylife was named one of the "Top 50 Tech Startups" by BusinessWeek^[11] and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by ReadWriteWeb^[12]. Daylife is 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.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Daylife, Getty Give Aggregation Tools to Publishers (for a Price)
• Daylife, the Aggregator That Newspapers Like
• Digital Media Companies That Hearst Could Buy Tomorrow
• Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies
• Daylife

Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film composer.

Life and career[link]

Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won five times for Achievement in Music - Original Score.^[1] Danna is recognized as one of the pioneers of combining non-Western sound sources with orchestral and electronic minimalism in the world of film music. This reputation has led him to work with such directors as Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, Terry Gilliam, Scott Hicks, Ang Lee, Gillies MacKinnon, James Mangold, Mira Nair, Billy Ray, Joel Schumacher, and Denzel Washington.

He studied music composition at the University of Toronto, winning the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship in 1985. Danna also served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for Dead Souls (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Gita Govinda (2001) based on the 1000-year-old classical Indian erotic poem, with choreographer Nina Menon.

Recent projects include Deepa Mehta's Water, Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies, Terry Gilliam's Tideland, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine, Bennett Miller's Capote, and Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer.

Filmography[link]

• Moneyball (film) (2011)
• Camelot (series) (2011, with his brother Jeff)
• (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• Chloe (2009)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, with his brother Jeff))
• The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
• Lakeview Terrace (2008, with his brother Jeff)
• Surf's Up (2007)
• Breach (2007)
• The Nativity Story (2006)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Lonely Hearts (2006)
• Sohni Sapna (2005)
• Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)
• Tideland (2005, with his brother Jeff))
• Water (2005)
• Capote (2005)
• Where the Truth Lies (2005)
• Aurora Borealis (2005)
• Being Julia (2004)
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• The Snow Walker (2003)
• Shattered Glass (2003)
• Hulk (2003) (additional cue "Mother")
• Antwone Fisher (2002)
• The Guys (2002)
• Ararat (2002)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• The Hire: Chosen (2001)
• Green Dragon (2001, with his brother Jeff))
• Bounce (2000)
• The Boondock Saints (1999. with his brother Jeff))
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• Don't Think Twice (1999 short)
• Ride with the Devil (1999)
• Felicia's Journey (1999)
• 8MM (1999)
• The Confession (1999)
• At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (1998)
• Behind the Lines (1997)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story (1996 TV movie)
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
• Lilies (1996)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Dance Me Outside (1995)
• Exotica (1994)
• The Darling Family (1994)
• Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994 documentary)
• Hush Little Baby (1993 TV movie)
• Gross Misconduct (1993 TV movie)
• Ordinary Magic (1993)
• The Adjuster (1991)
• Johann's Gift to Christmas (1991 TV short)
• Montréal vu par... (1991) - (segment "En passant")
• The Big Slice (1991)
• Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder (1990)
• Speaking Parts (1989)
• Road to Avonlea (1989 TV series)
• One Man Out (1989)
• Cold Comfort (1989)
• Without Work: Not by Choice (1989 short)
• Termini Station (1989)
• Murder One (1988)
• Blood Relations (1988)
• Caribe (1987)
• Family Viewing (1987)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Mychael Danna website
• Mychael Danna at the Internet Movie Database
• Danna talks about The Nativity Story

Simon St. Quentin Whitfield

Personal information
Born	(1975-05-16) May 16, 1975 (age 37) Kingston, Ontario
Residence	British Columbia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st)[1]
Sport
Country	Canada
Medal record Triathlon Competitor for  Canada Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Men's competition Silver 2008 Beijing Men's competition Commonwealth Games Gold 2002 Manchester Men's competition Pan American Games Bronze 1999 Winnipeg Men's competition

Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born May 16, 1975) is an Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.

Whitfield has won 10 consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles.

Biography[link]

Whitfield was born in Kingston, Ontario. As a young boy he played soccer but at age 11 began triathlon, honing his early competitive skills in the Canadian Kids of Steel program. By age 15 he was pursuing triathlon on a serious competitive basis.

Whitfield lives in Victoria, British Columbia and maintains a second residence on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. He is currently coached by Paulo Sousa, who has been referred to as "an evil genius".^[2]

Triathalon career[link]

Whitfield won a gold medal in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He got up off the ground after he and 14 other riders crashed in the bike race portion of the event and worked his way back near the leaders. In the foot race, he cut down the field one at a time then put on a finishing kick to take the victory. His final time was 1:48:24.02, which still (as of 2008) stands as the fastest Olympic triathlon.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England he claimed gold again. He ended up in 11th place at the 2004 Summer Olympics with a time of 1:53:15.81.

Whitfield was named to the 2008 Summer Olympics team and won a silver medal while competing at his third consecutive games.^[3] With a time of 1:48:58, he finished 5 seconds behind the German gold medalist.^[4] Whitfield's accomplishment was made even more impressive considering he was a distant fourth behind the lead three runners heading into the final kilometre of the run before he burst forth into the lead with 200 metres remaining. Whitfield, exhausted by his effort to get back into the lead, was then passed by the eventual winner Jan Frodeno of Germany at the end of the race.^[5]

Whitfield has qualified for the 2012 London Olympics in Triathalon.^[6]

References[link]