links for 2008-04-11

• Calais
  an API that does a semantic markup on unstructured HTML documents – recognizing people, places, companies, and events. This technology is the next generation of the Clear Forest offering, which Reuters acquired last year
  (tags: ajax analysis analytics annotation annotations api semanticweb metadata rdf reuters webservices calais semantic)
• Adobe Labs – Adobe AIR for Linux
  Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which allows developers to take web applications to the desktop and store data offline, is finally available on Linux
  (tags: actionscript adobe ajax alpha development flash air programming apollo)
• The Trance Institute
  For therapists, hypnotists, meditators, yogis, witches, those who explore inner space, priests, politicians, marketing and sales professionals, and many others who use trance or some form of it.
  (tags: trance hypnitism yoga meditation)