On Thursday, we announced that CBS Interactive / CNET is our first major media commercial partner for OpenCalais. You can see the press release here.

CNET is using OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, award-winning news, and blog postings on consumer electronics and technology, where it will streamline CNET’s content operations, drive audience engagement, and further extend CNET’s reach across the Web.

In addition, CNET is joining us in publishing core data assets for public, programmatic use on the Linked Data cloud. CNET will allow its original content -- such as tech product reviews on laptops, TVs, smart phones, and digital cameras; news articles and blog posts from its CNET News editorial staff; and parts of its core technology product catalog - to be available for public use.

You can read more about CNET’s pioneering work in the ReadWriteWeb write-up.

You can also read how Huffington Post and DailyMe are using OpenCalais to create local microsites and offer greater personlalization, respectively.  DailyMe's Neil Budde offers more detail in this Now Possible story as well.

Let us know how you are using OpenCalais in time for SemTech 2009 (June 14 - 18) so that we can showcase your work!