Calais Stream

DocumentCloud Adds OpenCalais and 20+ Investigative Journalism Outfits

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:56:25 -0400

DocumentCloud Adds OpenCalais and 20+ Investigative Journalism Outfits:

Good news for fans of OpenCalais and investigative journalism alike.

The DocumentCloud initiative – winner of this year’s largest grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – has…

10 Ways to Use OpenCalais Today

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:41 -0400

10 Ways to Use OpenCalais Today:

Here’s what’s up. Over the last several months you may have read about partnerships between OpenCalais and organizations like CNET/CBSi, The Huffington Post, Magus, Associated Content, and a variety…

Welcome to September!

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:47:13 -0400

Welcome to September!:

We have two pieces of news today: the first is just plain exciting (smart people getting creative with OpenCalais) and the second will make enterprise folks’ work with OpenCalais a lot…

Increased Transaction Allowances

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:35:33 -0400

Increased Transaction Allowances:

Hi all – just a little snippet of news today.

We’ve been busy working to keep up with the increased demand for Opencalais services. A lot of engineering going on in the background around…

The Y Combinator Future of Journalism Challenge Spells Opportunity

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:06:35 -0400

The Y Combinator Future of Journalism Challenge Spells Opportunity :

The Y Combinator’s ‘Future of Journalism’ challenge presents a great opportunity for OpenCalais developers. The seed-stage venture group has turned the conventional approach…

OpenCalais version 4.2 Available Now

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:08:42 -0400

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…

New Version of Tagaroo Now Available

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:29 -0400

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…

OpenCalais Release 4.1 Available Today

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:20:06 -0400

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…

It's time to check your applications' compatibility with OpenCalais 4.1

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:21:35 -0400

It's time to check your applications' compatibility with OpenCalais 4.1:

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…

Publishers Tap OpenCalais for Competitive Advantage

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:21:32 -0400

Publishers Tap OpenCalais for Competitive Advantage:

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…

PwC Technology Forecast: Spring 09

Fri, 29 May 2009 23:43:04 -0400

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…

Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:32:50 -0400

Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting:

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…

Calais Supports Google's Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:32:50 -0400

Calais Supports Google's Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting:

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…

Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:32:46 -0400

Calais Supports Google Rich Snippets Metadata Harvesting:

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…

Hope to see you at Web 3.0 and SemTech 2009

Mon, 04 May 2009 23:46:26 -0400

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…

Bookmarks for March 24th through April 25th

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:20:13 -0400

Bookmarks for March 24th through April 25th:

Links for March 24th through April 25th:

Check out the Resolved Entity Analyzer

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:26:17 -0400

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…

Bookmarks for December 27th through March 22nd

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:37:35 -0400

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…

Happy days are here again...

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:48:08 -0400

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…

System Stability

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:48:05 -0400

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