Simon Willison’s Weblog

Yahoo! Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services to be discontinued. The official closure date is August 31st. Term extraction was really useful—thankfully there are a number of decent alternatives such as Zemanta, OpenCalais and topia.termextract.

# 12th August 2009, 11:57 am / opencalais, termextractor, topia, web-services, yahoo, zemanta

Learning to Fear the Semantic Web. Paul Ford raises the liability issue with regards to building sites around other people’s metadata, pointing out that OpenCalais is owned by Thomson Reuters who have a bad track record with regards to intellectual property lawsuits elsewhere in the organisation.

# 23rd October 2008, 4:14 pm / intellectualproperty, opencalais, paul-ford, semanticweb, thomson-reuters