Calais which is a metadata generation web service that is powered by Reuters is offering up a $5,000.00 bounty to anyone who can develop a plugin that meets the following criteria.

• Tag auto suggestion: Using the content of the blog entry the plugin will provide a list of suggested semantic tags. For example, if the post talks about company “a” buying company “b” the plugin would suggest “Acquisition”, “Company A” and “Company B” as potential tags
• Semantic cloud: We all love tag clouds and we’d like to take it a step further. The plugin should support the generation of a configurable semantic tag cloud of entities and facts derived from the blog’s content
• GUID Incorporation: The Calais web service returns a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for each document submitted. The plugin should modify the RSS feed for the site to incorporate the GUID in a TBD location.

The first and second criteria I believe will already be apart of WordPress 2.5. As for the third section, I have no idea on how you would go about doing that. So it looks like I won’t be nabbing the prize this go around. Calais looks like they will be holding future bounties. However, they have yet to post any information as to what those future projects might be.

Calais has opened up a forum where you can discuss the bounty and contest programs. Good luck!

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