I know this post is overdue, sorry about that. I’ve just updated the Open Calais Tags PHP class, which allows you to automatically tag content with Open Calais’ free semantic analysis API. It now uses the v4 API’s REST URL and no longer adds a semicolon to the end of each tag. It’s also been [...]
The first freely available PHP interface to the OpenCalais API. Calais takes text or HTML input and identifies facts, entities and relationships from that text through natural language analysis.
Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony wasn’t [...]
I just moved Website Goodies, my oldest site at 12 years, over to WordPress as its CMS, replacing dozens of poorly written, exploitably bad PHP files and even worse databases. Now I can manage everything from one place and, perhaps, even give the site some new content. It’s still popular as far as my sites [...]
I’ve updated my Open Calais PHP Class with the entity types added in Calais’ last update. It now matches a bunch of new entertainment-related entities including movies, music and sports event names. You can drop the new opencalais.php into the folder with either plugin for WordPress and they’ll be able to add the new types [...]
First, I wrote a PHP class for passing content to Open Calais and getting back tags. Then, a WordPress plugin for tagging posts as you write them. Now, taking it one step further again, here’s a plugin for automatic tagging of your post archives. I tried tagging for a while last year, but wasn’t consistent [...]
Calais is a free web service from Clearforest, a Reuters company, that can perform semantic analysis on any English text. It uses natural language processing to extract concepts and relationships from the text. It’s been around for a few months, but there’s been very little developer activity around it, and even fewer completed applications using [...]
Inspired by this article at Read/Write Web, I decided to make a search engine out of one of my bookmark collections. Discover Semantic searches about 70 sites dealing with the semantic web (aka “web 3.0″). It covers W3 recommendations, specifications, tools, tutorials, and dozens of blogs about semweb. If nothing else, it was interesting to [...]
I always recommend people stay away from GoDaddy when they’re looking for shared hosting. It’s not their primary business and they have way too many customers. The result is packed, locked down servers missing key features, and poor support from inexperienced technicians. But at least they didn’t bungle up the VPS product like 1&1 did.
I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against letting [...]
