We announced 10 innovative new partners, including iPad apps, video news services, a community for the hedge fund industry, and disaster response / real time communications platforms.  The news netted coverage from SocialMedia.biz and SemanticWeb.com.  

 

The initiative overall also received coverage from Technorati, ReadWriteWeb and Econtent Magazine (a profile of Sumit Shah, technical project lead for OpenCalais/Clearforest), Webwereld and Global Security Magazine.

 

In other big news, Drupal creator Dries Buytaert’s company Acquia announced support and hosting services for OpenPublish, the Content Management System powered by OpenCalais and funded by Thomson Reuters.  The news was covered by CMS Wire and InternetNews.com.

 

Building on the Acquia news, we also announced in our blog that the US's oldest weekly news magazine, The Nation, had adopted the Web's most innovative CMS -- OpenPublish!

 

Finally, OpenCalais was citied in ReadWriteWeb’s analysis of Facebook’s F8 ‘Open Graph Protocol.’

 

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