socialmedian: 10 Ways to Use OpenCalais Today

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10 Ways to Use OpenCalais Today

Sep 17, 2009

Summary

Here’s what’s up. Over the last several months you may have read about partnerships between OpenCalais and organizations like CNET/CBSi, The Huffington Post, Magus, Associated Content, and a variety of others. And we, of course, think those are great.

But, we realized we’re not doing a good enough job of sharing some of the basic ways that people are getting value out of OpenCalais. We have the great opportunity to talk to a wide range of individuals and organizations every week and we think about this stuff – a lot – ourselves. So – the purpose of this blog entry (and more to come) is to just simply start sharing our thoughts and what you can do with OpenCalais. We can’t share everything (NDA’s and all that) – but we can share a lot.

This post is going to cover two things: 1) What OpenCalais does at a ridiculously high level and 2) a few starter ideas for what you can do with it. Follow-on posts will cover additional ideas and we’ll try to keep them coming at a good clip.

What Does Calais Do?

Several things actually.