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:

OpenCalais uses natural language processing (NLP) to “read” an article, extracting the ‘who, what, when, where and how’ from the story. Breaking content down into its basic elements makes it easier to manipulate – automating the creation of topic hubs and microsites – and improves its search relevance. With OpenCalais, publishers can:

• Automate: Automatically tag the entities, facts and events in content to increase its value.
• Enhance: Enrich content with open data from Wikipedia, Shopping.com, Geonames and more.
• Engage: Optimize the user experience, increase engagement and drive repeat visits.
• Extend: Increase reach to new search engines, aggregators, ‘related stories’ apps and more.
• Connect: Compete in tomorrow’s media ecosystem of enriched and interconnected content