On: Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

[benmccann]

Your tagging is pretty cool. How'd you figure out for each tag whether it was a person, country, city, etc.? Did you just look them each up on Wikipedia? E.g. http://newsley.com/articles/eu-threatens-to-block-chinese-bi...

[iamelgringo → benmccann]

It's a semantic web api from Reuters: http://www.opencalais.com/

Frankly, it's amazing. There's a sandbox where you can play with it here: http://viewer.opencalais.com/ Copy and past a couple paragraphs of text into the text box, and you can see some of what the api can do.