20:25 by FoxTwo
Zemanta - The Ultimate Blogging Tool
Image by Tom Raftery via FlickrOk so I just discovered this. Actually it was a confluence of factors that allowed me to be able to discover this in the first place. By some sheer concidence and twist of fate(s), I saw this being twittered from one of my followers, which, amazingly, isn't a personal friend. He followed me, I saw who he was, decided, why the hell not, and followed him/her back.Then I saw his/her tweet last night, about Zemanta.
And that's how I found out about it, installed it, and love it.
Ok what is Zemanta?
Very simply, Zemanta is a small Firefox (only!) extension that goes out onto the Internet and looks for pictures and related links for the blog post you are currently editing or creating. That's only the simple and quick explanation for it. It also recognizes keywords in your post(s) and offers hyperlink suggestions for you. For example, in this post I mentioned the name Zemanta, and it offered to hyperlink to the Zemanta homepage by itself. In addition to hyperlinks, it also suggests tags for you in your blog posts.
Also, if you look towards the bottom of this page, you can see a list of "Related articles"? Well it's not the same as the Wordpress version. This Zemanta version means related articles found on the internet, ie other blog posts, or other websites, or even the homepages of various products or services you're writing about. All these, it does in REAL-TIME. Meaning as you write your post, delete, add stuff, etc, the suggestions CHANGE, according to what you have written or removed.
As of this writing, it supports Blogger, Wordpress and Typad blog platforms. For people who hosts their own Wordpress blogs, no sweat, it works there too.
Yes, it is only available so far for FireFox. If you head on to their site, you can see that the reason other browsers aren't supported is due to lack of resources more than anything else.
It's sad, for me personally. Now that I've just gotten used to using Windows Live Writer to write blog posts offline, the discovery of Zemanta makes me want to come back to writing blog entries online again, via the web interface. *sigh*
Labels: internet, twitter, Zemanta
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Zis is Fun @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:31:00 PM Thanks for trying us out. We're shortly going to be rolling out some new features that is going to make blogging experience even better.
Live Writer together with IE is also in the works and it has a very important place in our roadmap :-)
If you have any questions or ideas, you can leave feedback on our forums getsatisfaction.com/zemanta or just drop me a mail - jure@zemanta.com
Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta -
krisandro @ Friday, April 25, 2008 1:01:00 AM sounds damn gd... i am gonna try it out!
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FoxTwo @ Friday, April 25, 2008 3:29:00 AM
Jure - heh I'm surprised you found my little blog post just a scant 3 hours after I posted the entry. With what you guys already have done, I can't wait to see what else you have in store for Zemanta!
Krisandro - yeah it is. It's enough to make me switch back to blogging online rather than offline via WLW :)
