Same silly data collection based on NLP and/or meta-data. Reuters is not going to jump start anything until they pair this with a meaningful notion of user intent.
Why don't you pair it? The advance with opencalais is that they offer a production-level service that's very easy to use and integrate. (Especially when they get normalization working.)
Jump start != produce a complete end-to-end solution including whatever components you happen to think are essential