Reuters Labs showcases some of our latest product innovations and developments. It's a test site where you can discover, use and comment on products and services still in progress. Note, these services are still in development so you may experience some minor technical glitches. We welcome your feedback, through our feedback form on these services and what you would like to see next.
Spotlight
The Reuters Spotlight service provides a non-commercial community platform to allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes, which includes news, video, pictures and multimedia articles. The Reuters Spotlight service provides access to Reuters content through standards based XML APIs feeds and provides a community around them to showcase, share and collaborate around your ideas.
Open Calais
Open Calais is an initiative in Thomson Reuters delivered through the semantic technologies of Clear Forest. The service allows registered developers to pass their text content through a web service that returns rich metadata and tagging relating to the content. Additional tools are provided for ease of integration with Wordpress, Drupal and Yahoo’s SearchMonkey.
TwitterThis
TwitterThis gives people a way to share the Reuters story they're reading with their friends on Twitter.
Various story pages on the experimental Reuters Labs website, have a TwitterThis link on the toolbar just below the headline. Clicking this link initiates the process of posting the story to Twitter. Because Twitter posts are limited to small bits of text, each character is at a premium. In order to shrink story URLs into a more Twitter-friendly size, TwitterThis employs another Reuters Labs technology, called DinkyLink.
Article Tagging
Tag an article without a text box? Select any text on an article to add it as a keyword thats describes the article. You can add the word as a "synonym" meaning the article is about that word. Or you can add it as an "antonym" if the word is related but in the opposite sense.
Face Search
Search for a person in Reuters video and find the exact moments when they are on-camera. By applying Viewdle's face-recognition to Reuters videos you can find the people you are looking for like George Bush, George Clooney or George Harrison, for example.
News Screener
The Reuters News Screener lets you treat the news as a sortable data set, helping you pinpoint stories of interest quickly. With a quick glance, the News Screener shows you over 100 of the latest headlines in a number of different categories. You can also type text into a filter to focus only on certain stories.
Newsbeats
Reuters Newsbeats blend music and news in a new media form. We aim to bring daily mixes of Reuters news direct to your web browser or podcasts to your MP3 player (no longer live).
Financial Glossary
Contribute to the Reuters Financial Glossary wiki and share your knowledge of financial and economic terms and concepts.
