Rich blog content at the click of a button – Zemanta has gone live!
Source: Wikipedia
This is great news! In February, I wrote for the first time about the Zemanta browser plug-in prototype which was supposed to allow you to enhance your blog’s content by automatically suggesting links (e.g. to Wikipedia or news pages) and pictures (e.g. on Flickr), based on semantic analysis of your text. Today Andraz from Zemanta notified me that they went live – and the working version is even cooler than the demo they had on their website in February: In February, you had to enter text and hit a button to ‘zemify’ the text – but the current Zemanta comes as a Wordpress plug-in. Every 300 characters as you type the plug-in suggests further links and tags which you can apply all at once or by clicking on each one you want – and that is of course MUCH MUCH more convenient than going to a website, copying the URL, highlighting the word and hitting the link button in WP.
The next cool feature is that a side bar shows related content (articles and pictures) on the web – which you can simply add to your blog post by, again, simply clicking on them. Extremely cool! And yes: This very blog entry has been enhanced with Zemanta!
But of course there are a number of glitches in this early version… (more…)
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