Reuters Releases Open API for New Calais Web Service (Centre Daily Times)

Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSY)(LSE:RTR), the global information company, today announced the release of an open Application Programming Interface (API) for its new Calais Web service. The API, which provides commercial and non-commercial parties with free access to state-of-the-art semantic tagging capabilities to enhance their applications and content, is available at OpenCalais.com ...

January 2008 Web Server Survey (Netcraft)

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SceneCaster Unveils SceneWeaver Technology to Make the 3D Web Available Anywhere, On Any Device (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

DEMO 08 Conference -- Since its debut last September at DEMOfall 07, SceneCaster has established itself as the fastest growing 3D Web application by focusing on ease of use and adoption, delivery via the browser, and integration with social networking sites such as Facebook.

Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!? (Search Engine Journal)

Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and is looking for beta testers. Make no sense to you or seem to good to be true? Jeremy lays down some reasons why this may be doable. Publishers - Google already [...]

Reuters OpenCalais Seeks WordPress Plugin (WebProNews)

The project has a $5,000 bounty offered for the developer who creates a plugin for tagging posts with semantic infrmation. read more

Niñal: Let’s do the beso-beso (Sun Star)

AS this column aims to educate, let’s start with etymology. According to my research — which involved the arduous process of typing keywords and clicking search — the word beso is Spanish for “kiss,” as in “beso de Judas.”

Target refuses to talk to blogger: not traditional enough (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

The US retail chain Target, described by the New York Times as "the ever-hip, contemporary retailer", reportedly refused to talk about one of their advertising campaigns with a young blogger who found them offensive, because they were not part of the mainstream (traditional) media.

Fat finds favor in the blogosphere (Pioneer Press)

For years, health experts have been warning that Americans are too fat, that we exercise too little and eat too much, that our health is in jeopardy.

WordPress secures $29 million in funding (NewsForge)

Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn't the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one of the investors is the New York Times. It's an unusual pairing ...

WordPress founders raise $33 million (Australian IT)

THE New York Times and others have invested in Automattic, which distributes the popular WordPress blogging software.