Thomson Reuters Celebrates Ten Innovative Sites and Services Using OpenCalais

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San Francisco, Calif. – Web 2.0 Summit – October 21, 2009 – Thomson Reuters today issued an update on its OpenCalais Initiative, and cited ten innovative sites and services that use OpenCalais to reduce costs, deliver compelling content experiences and mine the social web for insight.

“Less than two years into the project, 18,000 developers have joined the OpenCalais community and we are now processing four million documents per day,” said Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead, Thomson Reuters . “We are inspired and humbled by the creativity that today’s Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and online publishers have brought to bear in putting OpenCalais to work, and we are thrilled to recognize ten new sites and services that are changing the way we engage with news and the social Web.”

The newest publishers to join CBS Interactive / CNET, Huffington Post, DailyMe and others in using OpenCalais include:

The New Republic – http://www.tnr.com – The new site for The New Republic uses OpenPublish , an OpenCalais-enabled Drupal-powered Content Management System (CMS) to increase editorial productivity, improve search engine optimization, and drive reader engagement, including faceted search, recommended reading sidebars and – coming soon – automatically generated topic hubs. Using OpenPublish also provides New Republic editors with an easy way to innovate, using metadata to intelligently “mashup” content to create new products and display existing content in new and exciting ways.

Al Jazeera English’s new blogging network – http://blogs.aljazeera.net/ – features Al Jazeera correspondents from around the world. AJE head of online media, Mohamed Nanabhay , told Journalism.co.uk that “Just browsing through our correspondent blogs will give you a real sense of the breadth of our coverage, while diving into the posts provides real depth and insight into our world.” All posts in the new blog network are semantically tagged using OpenCalais ...

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