DayLife is staging a challenge from June 3rd to June July 25th (extended date):
Build the future of news, in software!
Build an application that uses the Daylife API. No limits here: mashups, portals, widgets, iphone apps, blogging plugins, you name it.
DayLife is a news aggregation platform with strong named entity (NE) recognition capability. NEs are also called ‘Topics’, and they fall under the types ‘Person’, ‘Place’ and ‘Organization’.
YooName - named entity recognition 