We are happy to report that we have resolved the bug that we identified in the initial 4.3 release, and that the new and improved OpenCalais 4.3 is up and running on all servers.
 
As a quick reminder, here are the new features and expanded capabilitites of the OpenCalais service.  As always, please let us know if you run into any issues or have any questions.
 
New in OpenCalais 4.3
 
Improved ‘Social Tags’: We are expanding on our popular Social Tags categorization technique by adding more generalized, aggregate tags.
 

We released OpenCalais 4.3 a day or so ago - and we’ve run into a few issues as we’ve rolled it out into production. We think we have a handle on the fixes needed – but to play it safe we’re going to roll back to Release 4.2 for at least the weekend.
 
Sorry for any inconvenience – but we’d rather play it safe and take a day or two to get things totally in shape.
 
Tom

Big News!

To kick-start 2010, we have updated virtually every tool we have in the OpenCalais arsenal. Check them out and let us know your thoughts.

Michael Fagan undertook a review of various entity and term extraction tools this past weekend.

While the use case (content types, goals, etc.) of the test are not clear, we are heartened to see folks beginning to look at the growing variety of tools and services in the space.

You can read the full posting - as well as a commentary from our Tom Tague - here: http://faganm.com/blog/2010/01/02/1009/ 

Tom's commentary is also excerpted below: 

Michael:

Tom Tague from OpenCalais here.

Big news!

OpenCalais has been nominated by ReadWriteWeb as among the top Web products for 2009.

Please add your voice to the mix by voting in ReadWriteWeb's Top 10 Web Products competition, here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_your_favorite_web_products_of_2009.php

You can select up to 10 nominees to support. We humbly request your consideration of OpenCalais.

Many thanks,
-Krista

Based on some forum chatter, I realized that we haven't shared our latest publisher case studies - including The New Republic and Associated Content - here in the blog.  Rather, we posted them out on Slideshare and linked to them in the newsroom.

Want to learn more about our connection to the Linked Data Cloud?

Check out our simple, high-level whitepaper, and let us know if you have questions.

@OpenCalais on Twitter

The OpenCalais Partner page has launched, and - once again - we'd like to thank the innovative publishers and creative entrepreneurs who have embraced OpenCalais and made us part of their sites and services.

Not on the list, but think you should be? 

Email us at Partners (at) OpenCalais (dot) com with two sentences on your app, site or service, and send along a quality image of your logo. 

We'll be glad to add you to the list and include you in our next blog post or press release.

Add 10 to the list of innovative sites and services that use OpenCalais to reduce costs, deliver compelling content experiences and mine the social web for insight. See our press release for more details on each.

We are thrilled to recognize the following new sites and services that are changing the way we engage with news and the social Web. They join a growing number of others in media, publishing, blogging, and news aggregation who use OpenCalais.

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