As I type this post, I am using a rather marvelous invention which appears to the right of my posting box. This is Zemanta: a content suggestion engine which finds relevent content to add to your posts as you type, including Flickr images, links to Wikipedia articles, tags and links which can help make your content "more vibrant" and appealing.
Zemanta is compatible with Wordpress, Typepad and (most importantly for us) Blogger. Through a Firefox entention, Zemanta adds an extra sidebar to your blog editing page and suggests relevant content which you can add to your post with a single click.
I'm still getting used to how this great plugin works and so far am rather impressed by its functionality. Images are suggested in a "Gallery" section which all appear to be from either Flickr's Creative Commons pool or Wikipedia content. Suggested articles appear to be from many different content sources and all have some relevance to the words I am writing in this post.
I'm sure many of you will find this a hugely useful tool to enhance your posts. Here is a video of Zemanta's integration with Blogger which pretty much sums up how this tool can work for you:
Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.
At present, it seems you can only use Zemanta as a Firefox extention, though I suspect more features will be added in the future.
You can download Zemanta from the download page and begin using this as soon as you log in to Blogger to begin writing a new post.
If you're already using Zemanta, please let me know what you think about this by leaving your comments below.
Hy from Zemanta!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review!
I hope you can share more thoughts on how to improve our service via email or via getsatisfaction.com/zemanta
We are really eager to hear feedback about how users would like to use the service and what they expect from it so we can make next iteration even better!
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andraz
I'm not getting anything but a small orange box next to my post window. I was typing away and nothing else happened. Did I do it wrong?
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Thank you.
Rebecca
For Zemantic Dreams: You're most welcome for the review. I'm very happy to see a content suggestion system which is available for Blogger users too (rather than a plugin which would be unaccessible to us!), and so far this has been working a treat for me!
ReplyDeleteI will be sure to email you my own suggestions once I've worked with this a little longer. I really look forward to seeing how this tool develops.
Thanks for stopping by to comment on this post!
For H.E.Eigler: You may want to rey restarting Firefox (or perhaps simply refreshing your post editing page).
ReplyDeleteIf this doesn't work, I suspect your security software may be causing complications for you (something similar happened to me when using Norton Antivirus). In this case, try lowering your internet security settings just slightly to see if this will work for you.
I hope this helps!
For Rebecca: I've just sent you an email about this, which you should receive soon. Thanks for stopping by!
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ReplyDeleteH.E.Eigler: if it still does not work, please email us at support@zemanta.com so we can debug a problem you are having!
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andraž
This is cool and I've installed and used in my post today, which I linked back to you for details.
ReplyDeleteYou are full of great ideas, keep up the good work.
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ReplyDeleteThis seems like a great plugin to have. Thanks for sharing!
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