Add 10 to the list of innovative sites and services that use OpenCalais to reduce costs, deliver compelling content experiences and mine the social web for insight. See our press release for more details on each.
We are thrilled to recognize the following new sites and services that are changing the way we engage with news and the social Web. They join a growing number of others in media, publishing, blogging, and news aggregation who use OpenCalais.
The newest publishers, joining CBS Interactive / CNET, Huffington Post, DailyMe and others in using OpenCalais, include:
The New Republic – https://www.tnr.com – The new website uses OpenPublish, an OpenCalais-enabled Drupal-powered Content Management System (CMS) to increase editorial productivity, improve search engine optimization, and drive reader engagement, including faceted search, recommended reading sidebars and – coming soon – automatically generated topic hubs.
Al Jazeera English’s new blogging network – [blogs.aljazeera.net] – features Al Jazeera correspondents from around the world. All posts in the new blog network are semantically tagged using OpenCalais for optimal search and navigation. It also uses a Creative Commons license and allows users to sign-in to comment using Facebook Connect, Twitter or OpenID.
Slate Magazine’s News Dots Network – [slatest.slate.com] – News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a concise network of related topics. Like a human social network, the news tends to cluster around popular topics, and most stories are more closely related than one might think. Behind the scenes, News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to OpenCalais to identify the relevant people, places, companies, topics, etc.
I *heart* Sea – https://iheartsea.com/ – is a hyperlocal news aggregation site that collects some of the best blogs in Seattle, especially those serving the Capitol Hill area. I *heart* Sea uses OpenCalais to automatically tag the keywords of the blog posts in aggregates, to make it easier to find related information.
Innovative new media monitoring and intelligence tools using OpenCalais include:
Tattler (app) – [tattlerapp.com] – is an open source topic monitoring tool for today's Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on topics users ask it to monitor. Using OpenCalais and other Semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to users’ selected topics, making it easy for users to filter, organize, share, and take action on content gathered from the real-time Web.
Interceder – https://www.interceder.net – is a social media monitoring tool that makes it easy to track trending topics and search through the latest content from major news Web sites, blogs, Twitter and YouTube. Interceder uses the Daylife API, OpenCalais, Freebase, and Yahoo! Pipes to retrieve the latest news from major news websites.
AskJot – https://www.askjot.com – Ask Jot is a tool for analyzing web pages for keywords, and displaying them as links to search results from various services around the Web. Developed by John Wright of Wright Labs and formerly known as Semantalyzr, Ask Jot uses OpenCalais, The New York Times article search API, DBPedia, the Yahoo! Answers API, the flickr API and many more.
New services using OpenCalais to deliver intelligent content experiences include:
Feedly – https://www.feedly.com –This Firefox plug-in brings to life user-selected inputs from Google Reader, friendfeed, Twitter, RSS feeds and more in an easy-to-read and engaging magazine-style format. Feedly uses OpenCalais and other semantic technologies for clustering, linking and organizing the content experience in an intuitive fashion that is nicely integrated into the browsing experience.
OpenPublish – [www.opensourceopenminds.com] – Based on the popular open source publishing platform Drupal, OpenPublish is a next-generation CMS that has been tailored to the needs of today's online publishers (magazines, newspapers, journals, trade publications, broadcast and wire services). Developed by Phase2 Technology, it uses semantic metatagging from OpenCalais to streamline content operations, automatically create topic hubs and recommend related articles and archived ‘more from this author’ stories.
DocumentCloud – https://www.documentcloud.org – Founded by reporters from The New York Times and ProPublica, and funded by the Knight Foundation, DocumentCloud is a unique online resource that will offer public access to news reporters’ original source materials, including documents, media files and more. OpenCalais processes materials available through DocumentCloud to make it easy for users to explore connections between newsmakers, corporations, transactions and even quotations across documents and across the full collection of source information.
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