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When you go to search the web, is it because you want to read through a lengthy article related to a subject, or do you just want the facts that answer your question? Factery Labs, a new service that’s launching this morning, is hoping it’s the latter. Factery is a new search engine/API that uses advanced language process (Read More)
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Welcome to The New York Times Linked Open Data Community. We've set up this community for interested members of the Semantic Technology Community to provide comments, questions and suggestions to The New York Times about our Linked Open Data Initiatives. (Read More)
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“Less than two years into the project, 18,000 developers have joined the OpenCalais community and we are now processing four million documents per day,” said Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead, Thomson Reuters. “We are inspired and humbled by the creativity that today’s Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and online publishers have br (Read More)
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Online Journalism Blog
Having reached a potential plateau in my addiction to Wordpress plugins* I thought I should blog about the plugins I use, those I’ve installed in preparation for potential use, and those I may install at some point in the future. Of the 85 or so plugins installed on my blog I ‘only’ have around 30-40 that are active – the r (Read More)
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What I interpret is that they are creating a hub for semantic data sources, so that all the formats and all the semantic options become increasingly accessible for developers. My hypothesis is that Thomson Reuters is aware that people will also want to buy data about the people, relationships and companies they access thro (Read More)
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Last month, it was announced that DocumentCloud would partner with a Thomson-Reuters technology venture called OpenCalais, which adds meta-tags to documents. This collaboration serves to further sharpen the scalpel.The second technology is a tagging service that adds value, it would seem, by identifying what it calls ‘entit (Read More)
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Alt Search Engines
During the initial days of the web, directories like Yahoo manually organized the web to find the relevant information. As web grew in size and search engine technology evolved, search engines like Google became the main source to query the web. Today, we see the next wave is making the web navigation easier by reorganizing (Read More)
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An executive with Thomson Reuters, parent of the wire service, touted the company's OpenCalais project, which tags and catalogs millions of pieces of information, data that will be made available to other news organizations.Lone stories don't have much value. But organizations that can group information will find "the value (Read More)
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Reflections of a Newsosaur
The UCBerkeley Media Technology Summit is opening this morning at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley and will be live-blogged in the window below, thanks to participant Chuck Peters, the tech-savvy chief executive of the Gazette Co. in Cedar Rapids, IA. (Read More)
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I work on the Calais initiative on OpenCalais.com. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.