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.

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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:

Good news for fans of OpenCalais and investigative journalism alike.

The DocumentCloud initiative – winner of this year’s largest grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – has lined up some two dozen partners, everyone from Thomson Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, to the ACLU National Security Project, The National Security Archive, the Center for Investigative Reporting and many more.

Here’s what’s up. Over the last several months you may have read about partnerships between OpenCalais and organizations like CNET/CBSi, The Huffington Post, Magus, Associated Content, and a variety of others. And we, of course, think those are great.

Hi all – just a little snippet of news today.

We’ve been busy working to keep up with the increased demand for Opencalais services. A lot of engineering going on in the background around scalability, performance and reliability.

The good news is that it is all paying off. Over the last three months we’ve achieved 100% uptime while improving performance and a delivering a number of functional improvements in the service - all while seeing growing utilization.

One result of our recent work is that the system is more efficient and scalable. Given our goal of connecting the world’s content – scalability is more than a little important.

The Y Combinator's 'Future of Journalism' challenge presents a great opportunity for OpenCalais developers.  The seed-stage venture group has turned the conventional approach to journalism on its head, calling for sustainable online business ideas that can also support journalistic endeavors.

They ask: What would a content site look like if you started from how to make money—as print media once did—instead of taking a particular form of journalism as a given and treating how to make money from it as an afterthought?

Read more about it here, and remember how OpenCalais can help:

We noted in our OpenCalais 4.1 press release that version 4.2 would follow swiftly, and here it is!  The upgrade, which began rolling out yesterday, is automatically available to all OpenCalais users - with no changes required on your part..

As Tom noted in his original 4.1 blog post, the 4.2 improvements include: