The News Dots Network uses Calais to gather tags for stories from a variety of major publications every few hours. Each time two tags appear in the same story, the software registers a connection between them. Over the course of hundreds of stories, a social network emerges. "Obama" and "White House" are closely connected, for example, while "Obama" and "U.S. Open" are not. A Flash tool reads the network data and visualizes the information as a network diagram.