Thomson Reuters celebrates ten innovative sites and services using
OpenCalais
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - Publishers and Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs Tap Semantic Web Service to Mine Social Media, Deliver Intelligent Content ServicesSan Francisco, Calif. - Web 2.0 Summit - October 21, 2009 - ThomsonReuters today issued an update on its OpenCalais Initiative, andcited ten innovative sites and services that use OpenCalais to reducecosts, deliver compelling content experiences and mine the social webfor insight."Less than two years into the project, 18,000 developers have joinedthe OpenCalais community and we are now processing four milliondocuments per day," said Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead,Thomson Reuters. "We are inspired and humbled by the creativity thattoday's Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and online publishers have brought tobear in putting OpenCalais to work, and we are thrilled to recognizeten new sites and services that are changing the way we engage withnews and the social Web."The newest publishers to join CBS Interactive / CNET, HuffingtonPost, DailyMe and others in using OpenCalais include:The New Republic - http://www.tnr.com - The new site for The NewRepublic uses OpenPublish, an OpenCalais-enabled Drupal-poweredContent Management System (CMS) to increase editorial productivity,improve search engine optimization, and drive reader engagement,including faceted search, recommended reading sidebars and - comingsoon - automatically generated topic hubs. Using OpenPublish alsoprovides New Republic editors with an easy way to innovate, usingmetadata to intelligently "mashup" content to create new products anddisplay existing content in new and exciting ways.Al Jazeera English's new blogging network -http://blogs.aljazeera.net/ - features Al Jazeera correspondents fromaround the world. AJE head of online media, Mohamed Nanabhay, toldJournalism.co.uk that "Just browsing through our correspondent blogswill give you a real sense of the breadth of our coverage, whilediving into the posts provides real depth and insight into ourworld." All posts in the new blog network are semantically taggedusing OpenCalais for optimal search and navigation. It also uses aCreative Commons license and allows users to sign-in to comment usingFacebook Connect, Twitter or OpenID.Slate Magazine's News Dots Network -http://slatest.slate.com/features/news_dots/default.htm - News Dotsvisualizes the most recent topics in the news as a concise network ofrelated topics. Subjects are connected to one another if they appeartogether in at least two stories, and the size of the dot isproportional to the total number of times the subject is mentioned.Like a human social network, the news tends to cluster around populartopics, and most stories are more closely related than one mightthink. Behind the scenes, News Dots scans all the articles frommajor publications-about 500 a day-and submits them to OpenCalais toidentify the relevant people, places, companies, topics, etc.I *heart* Sea - http://iheartsea.com/ - is a hyperlocal newsaggregation site that collects some of the best blogs in Seattle,especially those serving the Capitol Hill area. I *heart* Sea usesOpenCalais to automatically tag the keywords of the blog posts inaggregates, to make it easier to find related information. They alsouse Disqus so that comments can live on many sites and stay threadedtogether and CommentLuv to grab recent posts from commenters' blogswhen they leave their site address.Innovative new media monitoring and intelligence tools usingOpenCalais include:Tattler (app) - http://tattlerapp.com/ - is an open source topicmonitoring tool for today's Web. Tattler finds and aggregates contentfrom the Web on topics users ask it to monitor. Using OpenCalais andother Semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs,multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to findmentions of the issues most relevant to users' selected topics.Built by Phase2 Technology and distributed on Drupal, Tattler'sunique workflow and a toolset of intelligent content processors makeit easy for users to filter, organize, share, and take action oncontent gathered from the real-time Web.Interceder - http://www.interceder.net - is a social media monitoringtool that makes it easy to track trending topics and search throughthe latest content from major news Web sites, blogs, Twitter andYouTube. Interceder uses the Daylife API to find to find the latestnews; OpenCalais to create semantic metadata and enrich news andother Web content; Freebase to gather further insight on the people,companies and places mentioned in search results, and Yahoo! Pipes toretrieve the latest news from major news websites.AskJot - http://www.askjot.com - Ask Jot is a tool for analyzing webpages for keywords, and displaying them as links to search resultsfrom various services around the Web. Developed by John Wright ofWright Labs and formerly known as Semantalyzr, Ask Jot usesOpenCalais to find and identify the entities on a Web page, includingpeople, companies, countries and more. It also uses The New YorkTimes article search API, DBPedia, the Yahoo! Answers API, the flickrAPI and many more.New services using OpenCalais to deliver intelligent contentexperiences include:Feedly - http://www.feedly.com - Feedly is a Firefox plug-in thatbrings to life user-selected inputs from Google Reader, friendfeed,Twitter, RSS feeds and more in an easy-to-read and engagingmagazine-style format. In addition, Feedly aggregates users' sharingbehavior into a single page and adds a toolbar to the bottom of thepage that gives them more sharing and comparing features about thatpage. If users click "next" in the toolbar, it will take them toanother site their friends have recommended. Feedly uses OpenCalaisand other semantic technologies for clustering, linking andorganizing the content experience in an intuitive fashion that isnicely integrated into the browsing experience.OpenPublish - http://www.opensourceopenminds.com/openpublish -Based on the popular open source publishing platform Drupal,OpenPublish is a next generation CMS that has been tailored to theneeds of today's online publishers. Ideal for a variety of mediasites including magazines, newspapers, journals, trade publications,broadcast and wire services. Developed by Phase2 Technology, it usessemantic metatagging from OpenCalais to streamline contentoperations, automatically create topic hubs and recommend relatedarticles and archived 'more from this author' stories.DocumentCloud - http://www.documentcloud.org - Founded by reportersfrom The New York Times and ProPublica, and funded by the KnightFoundation, DocumentCloud is a unique online resource that will offerpublic access to news reporters' original source materials, includingdocuments, media files and more. The materials available throughDocumentCloud will be processed by OpenCalais to make it easy forusers to explore connections between newsmakers, corporations,transactions and even quotations across documents and across the fullcollection of source information.About the OpenCalais InitiativeThe OpenCalais initiative supports the interoperability of contentand advances Thomson Reuters mission to deliver intelligentinformation. It offers free metadata generation services, developertools and an automatic connection to the Linked Data cloud. The freeOpenCalais service and open API makes it easy to automate contentoperations, enhance content, increase audience engagement and extenddistribution across the content ecosystem. Visit OpenCalais.com.About Thomson ReutersThomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligentinformation for businesses and professionals. We combine industryexpertise with innovative technology to deliver critical informationto leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax andaccounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by theworld's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in NewYork and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, ThomsonReuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto StockExchange and New York Stock Exchange. For more information, go towww.thomsonreuters.comContact:Krista ThomasThomson Reuters OpenCalais Initiative415.202.3523Krista.Thomas(at)ThomsonReuters.comhttp://hugin.info/142273/R/1349023/324884.pdfThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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