We're headed home from three exciting and exhausting days at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, and all we can say is thank you!

Thanks to the many developers who worked with Calais to create fantastic mashups and brought their creativity, innovation and dedication to the 24-to-48 hour challenge.

And the winners are...

Many thanks to all who participated in testing Calais 3.1.  Thanks to your help and your feedback, 3.1 is now live.

The new release includes several important new capabilities, including company and geographic disambiguation -- the ability to resolve textual ambiguities around company names (e.g. IBM vs. IBM Corporation vs. International Business Machines) and geographies (e.g. Calais, Maine vs. Calais, France).

Introducing the Calais Mashup Contest @ Mashup Camp

Please join us for Mashup Camp to compete in our first Calais Mashup Contest at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, Nov. 17-19, 2008.

Three Ways to Win

We are offering a 4TB Drobo as top prize for Calais mashups in three categories:

Quick event note: We have added the Web 3.0 Conference in Santa Clara, CA to our schedule.

Tom Tague, Calais initiative lead, will be a panelist in two sessions on Thursday, October 16th:

For an in-depth conversation on Semantic Proxy, and clarification on a number of technical points, please see a series of posts and comments between Tom Tague, Greg Boutin and Greg's readers. 

Greg Boutin's Semantics Incorporated blog

Tom Tague's context:forge blog

We did a quick interview with Andy Plesser and the good folks of Beet.TV when we were at MIT EmTech'08 last week. 

Check it out here, and let us know your thoughts. 

Here are some quick highlights from our media and blog coverage to date on the launch of SemanticProxy.com and the new commercial Calais offerings.

Many thanks to Dr. Paul Miller of Talis (and ZDNet Blogs), Frederic Lardinois of ReadWriteWeb, Chris Morrison of VentureBeat, Rob Diana of Mashable, and Josh Catone of SitePoint.

We appreciate the time and effort that goes into covering this dynamic space and keeping it simple, clear and relevant.

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THOMSON REUTERS DEBUTS COMMERCIAL OPTIONS FOR ITS CALAIS WEB SERVICE TO MEET PUBLISHER AND ENTERPRISE DEMAND

Meets Market Need for MetaData Generation with Increased Capacity, Affordable Licensing and the Option to Deploy Calais Within the Enterprise

Here is a quick update on Calais developer events as well as new discounts on conferences where the Calais team will be presenting in the weeks ahead.  We hope to see you there, so let us know if you can make it! 

We hope to meet as many members of the OpenCalais community as possible.  Toward that end, here is a list of the September events where we are presenting and/or holding workshops. 

We would love to see you there, so let us know if you can make it!