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A word about Reblog
The core idea of Zemanta is to make blogging easier. While we try to do this by working on our contextual suggestions, we often notice unexplored area where bloggers are asking for someone to fill...
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Tutorial: using filter function with Zemanta
Writing good blog posts is a creative process that often requires just right supporting media. While Zemanta tries its best to find semantically most relevant recommendations, it turns out that often...
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New vertical: Professional organizers
New Year is all about setting new goals and figuring out how to improve your everyday lives. One of the things a lot of us decide on is to get our lives more organized. Zemanta recommendations To make...
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The easiest way to blog about your favorite startup
Internet is a wast and resourceful place that provides us with new services everyday. While we might give a lot of attention to the applications from bigger vendors, it’s the startups that bring the...
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How to get your feed into Zemanta?
Zemanta has 4 major types of recommendations: images articles tags hyperlinks Today I’m going to talk about article recommendations. How they work, what are selection criteria and how to get your blog...
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Zemanta Power User: Owen Cutajar
I first talked to Owen just hours after we first released Zemanta to public. Since then he has provided great feedback on how we can help you improve your blogging experience. I asked him to talk a bit...
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Featured blog: Three Wise Men
David from Three Wise Men, was kind enough to tell us a bit about his experience with Zemanta at creating new blog: After blogging for almost five years on my personal blog it was time to sail into new...
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Tutorial: Getting Started with Zemanta
Zemanta is a writing assistant that recommends you content while you write. It does that by extending your writing area, allowing you to keep the same work flow that you have while saving you time by...
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Featured user: Marshal Sandler
Marshal Sandler is one of our most loyal users and probably also the oldest. We’re honored to have him follow our work and for his comments and links that he’s sending in our direction. That’s why I...
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Featured Blog: Day of X
This week we have an excellent blog with unique theme for you. Day of X, written by Mark Hewitt, has a very simple tagline: Because Every Day is the International Day of SOMETHING. Here is his story:...
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Featured Blog: Net News Daily
The guys over at Net News Daily run a cool news website. If you haven’t heard of them, then you might be surprised to find out that the site is run by two thirteen year olds in the UK. Here’s their...
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Is Zemanta your little blogging secret?
I found one Tweet from @SusanBratton (of personallifemedia.com fame) very interesting last week. It’s a happy Tweet about Zemanta’s Related Posts and how it helps her so much. We love her just for...
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Featured blog: Casa Dolcetto
This week we’re presenting you CasaDolcetto a blog about Insights & reflections on Italy. Adrian shared a few of his thoughts on Zemanta with us: It has been about three years since I started my...
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Zoo in the cloud needs a keeper
When we were designing Zemanta’s infrastructure in the beginning of 2008 there were many interesting challenges. Here’s the story of one of them. Zemanta’s API request processing consists of a set of...
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Appeal for a better support of authors widgets
Note: Reposted from personal blog of Marko Samastur, head of frontend development at Zemanta. Goal of Zemanta widget has always been to present contextually relevant information to text being written...
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How relevant is popular authority?
Not very much it turns out. At least not as much as Chocolate mud pie. Image by zemanta via Flickr We’ve asked our users what they like, what they wish for and what flavor pie they like the most. 468...
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Wikiprep processing times
Image via Wikipedia Large part of Zemanta’s language analysis depends on structured data extracted from English Wikipedia. Since a lot of in-text links also come from this source, it’s important that...
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Save Half Hour Every Day By Using Better Blogging Tools
Half of bloggers spend more than 3 hours per week blogging and they publish 2-3 posts a week. A rough estimate would say one spends an hour per blog post, which sounds like it’s of the right scale, but...
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Point of View: Betsy Morgan – 10 Things the Huffington Post did right
Exploring the media landscape has always been a fun thng to do for us here at Zemanta since we’re lucky enough to be able to get some sweet insights through the eyes of people we meet on our...
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Map-reduce with Disco
Note: Reposted from personal blog of Tomaž Šolc. One of the features of Zemanta API is image suggestion. For example, if you are writing an article about bowls of petunias, Zemanta will suggest nice...
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