Bookmarks vom 15-01-2009

Der Internetverkehr am zentralen deutschen Internet-Knotenpunkt DE-CIX in Frankfurt am Main hat Ende 2008 mit 600 GBit/s eine neue Rekordmarke erreicht. Im Vergleich zum Jahresanfang 2008 hat sich der Traffic verdoppelt.

Thomson Reuters is today launching the latest version of its Calais web service and open API, Calais 4.0. Calais is a toolkit of products that enables publishers to incorporate semantic functionality within their properties – enabling them to categorize content as people, places, companies, facts, events, and more. Calais 4.0 is perhaps the most significant version since the launch of Calais one year ago, because it enables publishers to connect to the Linked Data web standard that Sir Tim-Berners Lee and others in the Semantic Web community have been promoting over the past few years.