July 2009
1 post
OpenCalais version 4.2 Available Now →
We noted in our OpenCalais 4.1 press release that version 4.2 would follow swiftly, and here it is!  The upgrade, which began rolling out yesterday, is automatically available to all OpenCalais…
Jul 15th
June 2009
4 posts
New Version of Tagaroo Now Available →
The latest version of Tagaroo is available here. Below are some of the new and important features of this new release Social tags are suggested as tags and appear at the top of the tags list…
Jun 23rd
OpenCalais Release 4.1 Available Today →
OpenCalais Release 4.1 Available Today The Gist: Introducing Social Tags – a knowledgebase-driven tagging solution Entity extraction now supported in English, French and Spanish Significant…
Jun 15th
It's time to check your applications'... →
We’ll be releasing version 4.1 of OpenCalais on Monday 15 June (and Release 4.2 about three weeks later!). This release has a number of new features – but for the moment we want to focus on making…
Jun 6th
Publishers Tap OpenCalais for Competitive... →
On Thursday, we announced that CBS Interactive / CNET is our first major media commercial partner for OpenCalais. You can see the press release here. CNET is using OpenCalais for semantic…
Jun 4th
May 2009
5 posts
PwC Technology Forecast: Spring 09 →
Click here to find an excellent, professional report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (the PWC Quarterly Technology Forecast) on the impact of Semantic Web and Linked Data – primarily with an…
May 30th
Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata... →
Interesting news yesterday from Google. Basically they’ve announced that their new Rich Snippets feature will harvest semantic metadata from web pages using Microformats or RDFa. As is to be…
May 14th
Calais Supports Google's Rich Snippets Metadata... →
Interesting news yesterday from Google. Basically they’ve announced that their new Rich Snippets feature will harvest semantic metadata from web pages using Microformats or RDFa. As is to be…
May 14th
Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata... →
Interesting news http://bit.ly/xMcLH yesterday from Google. Basically they’ve announced that their new Rich Snippets http://bit.ly/386fer feature will harvest semantic metadata from web pages…
May 13th
Hope to see you at Web 3.0 and SemTech 2009 →
Just a quick note to say we hope to see you at one of two key industry conferences this spring.  Here’s what we’re up to in May and June: 1.) The Web 3.0 conference takes place in New…
May 5th
April 2009
1 post
Bookmarks for March 24th through April 25th →
Links for March 24th through April 25th: Search Results Page | PlanetGapYear.com - AmeriCorps NCCC Student Blogs About Gap Year Volunteer Experience | PlanetGapYear.com - My AmeriCorps -…
Apr 25th
March 2009
7 posts
Check out the Resolved Entity Analyzer →
Developers - we’ve posted information about the Resolved Entity Analyzer in the Showcase. It analyzes entities and outputs in an xml file containing simplified data gathered from OpenCalais and…
Mar 26th
Bookmarks for December 27th through March 22nd →
Links for December 27th through March 22nd: Calais Viewer - Topic Hubs | drupal.org - OpenPublish - Calais Powered Drupal Publishing Platform - Drupal distribution incorporating Calais…
Mar 23rd
Happy days are here again...  →
As you may have noticed we’ve had some intermittent stability and response time issues over the last few days. We believe we have the problem solved - or at least quarantined. We have one…
Mar 21st
System Stability →
All: We’re having some intermittent system stability problems. We have all hands on deck working on it and will give you an update as soon as we have more information. Tom
Mar 20th
OpenPublish; Deploy a high performance (semantic)... →
A week ago or so our partner – Phase2Technology - announced the release of OpenPublish. The dust has settled from DrupalCon a bit and I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about what…
Mar 17th
Calais 4.0 - Early AM EST on Tuesday 3/17 →
Last chance for testing. Effective early in the morning hours of 3/17 all calls going to Calais will be redirected to version 4 of the service. If you haven’t tested your application with version 4…
Mar 13th
Media Cloud research tool from Harvard's Berkman... →
Just a quick heads-up on Media Cloud, a new free service from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  It uses the Calais Web service to make it easy to identify trends in online media.
Mar 11th
February 2009
7 posts
NYT Newswire API + Calais InstaContest →
We’re going to keep this very simple and fast: Write a web-accessible mashup using the new NYT newswire API @ http://bit.ly/11amDC and Calais. Do something cool and do it fast. (Update: Use of…
Feb 27th
Updated Calais Modules for Drupal →
In preparation for the new 4.0 release of OpenCalais on March 15th, the gang at Phase2 Technology has done some massive upgrades on the Drupal Calais modules. While many of these…
Feb 25th
Vote for Calais as Semantic Web App Project of the... →
Shameless project promotion here. Calais is a contestant for Intranet Journal Semantic Web Application Product of the Year. You can cast your ballot here. Many thanks to the editors of…
Feb 21st
Please ignore this post →
Just doing an experiment to see the latency for search crawlers to pick up and start traversing linked data assets like this one: Apple or this one: IBM But - if you want to start exploring…
Feb 15th
Kas Thomas' OpenCalais - OpenOffice Mashup →
Kas Thomas, an analyst with CMS Watch, has created a mashup of OpenCalais and OpenOffice that has us all abuzz this morning. Of particular interest, he has created an OpenOffice macro…
Feb 6th
Metadata as a Service →
Kas Thomas (of CMS Watch) wrote two great back to back posts on his blog. In the first post, Kas discusses the power of “Metadata as a Service” - in short what can you make happen if…
Feb 6th
Nag. Nag. Time for Testing →
All: Time to start testing your applications against Release 4 of Calais. There are significant changes in the response format of R4 and chances are pretty high that you application will need some…
Feb 5th
January 2009
3 posts
Calais 4.0 has arrived! →
On the one year anniversary of our debut, we are extremely pleased to announce the debut of Calais 4.0. With more than 9,000 of you processing 1+million documents per day, it was time to take Calais…
Jan 14th
Announcing Calais Release 4 →
Today we’re announcing the release of Calais 4.0. As we’ve discussed in previous notes there are many new features in this release that we think will dramatically improve the value of Calais to…
Jan 14th
Help Us Build the 2009 Calais Roadmap →
We’d like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to the success of Calais over the last year. From an idea in mid-2007 to our launch in January 2008, it’s been an amazing ride. We’re…
Jan 2nd
December 2008
1 post
Bookmarks for October 29th through December 27th →
Links for October 29th through December 27th: Slow Travel England - Canal Boats in England, how to plan your trip - Argilos Archaeological Site > Application Form > - Kalat - Past…
Dec 28th
November 2008
6 posts
MashupCamp API Keys are Going Away... →
We issued a shared use key for participants in the recent Mountain View mashupcamp to utilize. Over the next several weeks we’ll be ramping down the volume limits…
Nov 25th
Thank You & Congratulatons to Mashup Camp Winners! →
We’re headed home from three exciting and exhausting days at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, and all we can say is thank you! Thanks to the many developers…
Nov 21st
Life in the Linked Data Cloud: Calais Release 4 →
(Re purposed from the blog post on http://www.opencalais.com/node/9501) The Gist: Release 4 of Calais will be a big deal. In that release we’ll go beyond the ability to extract semantic data from…
Nov 13th
Life in the Linked Data Cloud - Calais Release 4... →
Life in the Linked Data Cloud: Calais Release 4 The Gist: Release 4 of Calais will be a big deal. In that release we’ll go beyond the ability to extract semantic data from your content. We will…
Nov 13th
Spinqing →
We’ve all been there - you’re on a panel, giving a presentation or just having a discussion with colleagues. Then.. someone asks a question. Well, it’s supposed to be a question but it’s really just…
Nov 6th
Join us at Mashup Camp to Compete in the first... →
 INTRODUCING THE CALAIS MASHUP CONTEST @ MASHUP CAMP Please join us for Mashup Camp to compete in our first Calais Mashup Contest at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA,…
Nov 1st
October 2008
9 posts
Calais 3.1 Goes to Production on Monday November 3 →
Calais Community: A quick note to let you know that the Calais Release 3.1 technology preview moves to Calais production this Monday 11/3. If you haven’t had a chance to test with 3.1 - this is…
Oct 29th
Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 28th →
Links for October 22nd through October 28th: the exploding newsroom » Blog Archive » Journalism and the semantic web - inkdroid » Blog Archive » SemanticProxy - Insite | The Semantic Web…
Oct 29th
Bookmarks for October 9th through October 20th →
Links for October 9th through October 20th: Developers! Developers! Developers! « context:forge - Notes on two new geo-location Calais based applications. Code samples! Tutorial : Text…
Oct 20th
Developers! Developers! Developers! →
One of the really fun parts of working on the Calais Initiative is our community of developers. They toil in quiet and then - surprise! - they release something really cool and interesting. So - I…
Oct 20th
What is Web 3.0? →
After participating in yet another “What is Web 3.0″ panel I decided to strip my answer down to Twitterable size. Here it is: Web 2.0 created a problem - overwhelming content overload. Web…
Oct 19th
Bookmarks for October 3rd through October 5th →
Links for October 3rd through October 5th: Keyword Search Results - SMFA Boston - Sculpture - Sculptor.Org - Sculptors’ Schools - Colleges and Universities - Drigger: Top Stories -
Oct 5th
Greg Boutin @ Semantics Incorporated →
Greg Boutin Greg Boutin wrote a fairly in-depth piece on SemanticProxy. In this article Greg reviews SemanticProxy’s performance and asks a number of questions about whether it’s truly…
Oct 3rd
Bookmarks for October 1st through October 3rd →
Links for October 1st through October 3rd: Calais: check my ties please! « Gooder English - Gooder English on Calais. Ouch. Hurts just to type it. The semantic branding - The wiki-semantic -…
Oct 3rd
Mark Gould @ Brand 3.0 →
Mark Gould Mark Gould wrote a nice overview of Calais and SemanticProxy.com here http://bit.ly/gL1Aq. Because this was an introduction to Calais for a new audience oriented toward…
Oct 3rd
September 2008
8 posts
Bookmarks for September 24th through September... →
Links for September 24th through September 29th: Semantic Technology’s place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ? | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com - Calais Goes Commercial… — Vagrant Muse -
Sep 29th
Bookmarks for September 24th from 09:15 to 09:22 →
Links for September 24th from 09:15 to 09:22: SitePoint Blogs » Calais Semantic Web Service Adds Professional Version - Thomson Reuters Debuts Commercial Options for Its Calais Web Service…
Sep 24th
Bookmarks for September 9th through September 23rd →
Links for September 9th through September 23rd: SPARQL By Example - Semantic Proxy - Thomson Reuters bootstraps Semantic Web of Linked Data with SemanticProxy | The Semantic Web |…
Sep 23rd
Released today: SemanticProxy.com →
We released Calais a little less than none months ago. It’s been a fascinating process and an edifying period. On the one hand we’ve seen a level of interest and adoption well beyond anything we’d…
Sep 23rd
Update (and More Discounts!) on Fall Developer... →
Here is a quick update on Calais developer events as well as new discounts on conferences where the Calais team will be presenting in the weeks ahead.  We hope to see you there, so let us know if…
Sep 16th
Bookmarks for September 6th through September 8th →
Links for September 6th through September 8th: Semantic Search Means ….? « context:forge - What are the components of Semantic Search? Calais for Drupal - Release 2 is out and alive! |…
Sep 8th