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Thomson Reuters celebrates ten innovative sites...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\nPublishers and Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs Tap Semantic Web Service to Mine\n Social Media, Deliver Intelligent Content Services\n\nSan Francisco, Calif. - Web 2.0 Summit - October 21, 2009 - Thomson\nReuters today issued an update on its OpenCalais Initiative, and\ncited ten innovative sites and services that use OpenCalais to reduce\ncosts, deliver compelling content experiences and mine the social web\nfor insight.\n\n\"Less than two years into the project, 18,000 developers have joined\nthe OpenCalais community and we are now processing four million\ndocuments per day,\" said Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead,\nThomson Reuters. \"We are inspired and humbled by the creativity that\ntoday's Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and online publishers have brought to\nbear in putting OpenCalais to work, and we are thrilled to recognize\nten new sites and services that are changing the way we engage with\nnews and the social Web.\"\n\nThe newest publishers to join CBS Interactive / CNET, Huffington\nPost, DailyMe and others in using OpenCalais include:\n\nThe New Republic - \n\nhttp://www.tnr.com - The new site for The New\nRepublic uses OpenPublish, an OpenCalais-enabled Drupal-powered\nContent Management System (CMS) to increase editorial productivity,\nimprove search engine optimization, and drive reader engagement,\nincluding faceted search, recommended reading sidebars and - coming\nsoon - automatically generated topic hubs. Using OpenPublish also\nprovides New Republic editors with an easy way to innovate, using\nmetadata to intelligently \"mashup\" content to create new products and\ndisplay existing content in new and exciting ways.\n\nAl Jazeera English's new blogging network -\n\n\nhttp://blogs.aljazeera.net/ - features Al Jazeera correspondents from\naround the world. AJE head of online media, Mohamed Nanabhay, told\nJournalism.co.uk that \"Just browsing through our correspondent blogs\nwill give you a real sense of the breadth of our coverage, while\ndiving into the posts provides real depth and insight into our\nworld.\" All posts in the new blog network are semantically tagged\nusing OpenCalais for optimal search and navigation. It also uses a\nCreative Commons license and allows users to sign-in to comment using\nFacebook Connect, Twitter or OpenID.\n\nSlate Magazine's News Dots Network -\n\n\nhttp://slatest.slate.com/fea...