NewsCloud

NewsCloud Released as Open Source Media Platform

Stefanos Karagos | December 11, 2006

NewsCloud began in 2004 as CommonBits, a community directory for distributing political videos via BitTorrent.
It evolved into CommonTimes, a social network for news and was rebranded as NewsCloud.com in May 2006.
NewsCloud is primarily the work of Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft technologist and free-lance journalist and co-founded by Garrett Moon, a computer science student at Western Washington University.

Before some days they released the code for NewsCloud to the open source community under a GPL license.

The NewsCloud platform is written in PHP and MySQL.
One of the interesting things about the NewsCloud platform is its expanding use of Smarty as a template engine helping to fully customize the look and feel of the final result.

For more info you can visit the NewsCloud Blog, the related Wiki and the files repository on Sourceforge.

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