We have scheduled some housekeeping chores that will take the Open Calais website off line on Monday, February 6. We don't expect the chores to take more than a few minutes, but access to the website will be limited between 4 and 5 p.m., EST. The Open Calais API will be completely available during this time. 

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:

The latest version of Tagaroo is available here.

Below are some of the new and important features of this new release

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.

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.

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 Linked Data.

Check it out here.

We'd like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to the success of Calais over the last year. From an idea in mid-2007 to our launch in January 2008, it's been an amazing ride.

We're wrapping up the year with 9,000 registered users of the Calais service who are submitting one to two million transactions each day. You've built dozens, if not hundreds, of innovative applications and you've provided regular feedback to help us make the service more useful. Thank you. We truly could not have done it without you.

Mashup Camp's over. We've packed our tents, tidied up the campsite, and are moving on.

The Calais team certainly had a good experience this week at Mashup Camp in Mountain View. We congratulate all the winners and contributors whose creativity and energy in developing applications drove the camp's success.

If you attended the camp, we'd love to hear about your experience - what worked, what didn't. If you'd never attended mashup camp before, how did it meet your expectations? If you're an old pro, how did it differ from previous camps?

May 29, 2008. In this Internetnews.com article, David Needle offers analyst insights and demonstrates how Calais can leverage major tools and platforms to produce intelligent information.

Easy-to-Use Plugin Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

New York, NY and Waltham, MA — Monday, May 19, 2008 — To meet the needs of WordPress bloggers everywhere, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN), the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, has debuted the new Calais Tagaroo plugin for the open source WordPress publishing platform from WordPress.org.