Two internationally acclaimed newspapers are dead serious about openness, launching open content-sharing services that grants third-party application developers free access to premium news content. The New York Times was first out with it’s newswire and article search APIs, covering over 2.8 million articles from 1981-today.The Guardian followed up with their Open Platform, APIs featuring ‘full fat’ feeds with full articles and other content including video, audio and photo galleries, some one million pieces of content published from 1999-2008.