Reuters Calais: Reuters news service announced an interesting new web service called Calais. The service takes unstructured text and returns structured metadata with semantic markup in RDF. The results included entities, facts, and events. The service is built on technology from it’s acquisition of ClearForest and Mashery’s API management. It will be interesting to comparisons with Yahoo Pipes features and it looks like it would integrate well with other mashup services including Pipes.
Domain Tasting to Go Away for Real This Time: John Levine writes in CircleID that ICANN has decided that it’s 20 cent fee for deleting names in the five day Add Grace period (AGP). This should have a dramatic affect in reducing the bulk of the large scale domain name tasting and domain name kiting. If Google also continues with their planned anti-domain name policy then the incentive both small scale and large scale tasting and kiting will be minimized.
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You: a fun diagram from Wired on the process a weblog post goes from creation to being available on a server.
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