We've just done a fun interview with The Guardian's Jemima Kiss, which you can find here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/08/reuters_labs_brews_more_conten.html

As you can see, Reuters Spotlight Content API, found at http://spotlight.reuters.com, now features integration with Calais, enabling you to build news apps that include fully metatagged Reuters news.

Spotlight is an open developer community, coming out of the Reuters Labs initiative (http://labs.reuters.com), that gives non-commercial developers access to Reuters multimedia articles, pictures, videos and text news via a set of API services.

Spotlight also offers community tools, resources and forums, including the Spotlight gallery (http://spotlight.reuters.com/project) which is now showcasing cool news apps by early adopters.

Developers can also share snippets of their code and generate additional Web traffic when others embed their Spotlight applications into their personal sites or non-commercial blogs, etc.

Here are links to some great work, including mashups of Spotlight, Calais and other services, such as the Daylife API and Yahoo! Pipes.

-- Developer Sven Elligan has created a Spotlight + Daylife + Calais mashup that was runner up in Daylife's recent developer competition: http://challenge08.daylife.com/news-in-digital-media

-- Developer Michael Bade created a Spotlight + Daylife + Calais mashup that also leverages Yahoo! Pipes: http://opencalais.com/node/4705

-- Thomson Reuters developer Todd Faulls created GIST using Spotlight and Calais as well: http://gist.whistlehog.com

To get started with Spotlight, go to http://spotlight.reuters.com or visit DevX's API Finder at http://www.apifinder.com/APIFinder/APIDisplay/29743

-Krista