Thursday, April 24, 2008
20:25 by FoxTwo
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*
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
