How Thomson Reuters OpenCalais is helping Huffington Post and CNet repurpose content At the Semantic Technology Conference, which drew about 1,200 people, one of the big questions that came to mind is: Can everyone agree to some standards about the understanding and definition of human knowledge? One company trying to bring about a standard is Thomson Reuters, through OpenCalais, a free automated tagging and organization service for publishers. Just this week, the company announced a partnership with Huffington Post and DailyMe. CNet is also another recent customer. OpenCalais, which has $30 million invested into its technology already, is essentially automating the process of breaking down volumes of content into new categories and tags to broaden the audience base of its publisher customers and/or make existing content more accessible. For instance, if the ...   [ Read more ]