Trying out Zemanta
Back at Seedcamp in the Summer, I met the guys behind what was then a very wizzy little app called Zemanta. They went on to win it, which was great, even though I felt is was a solution looking for a problem. But then, hey - what do I know?
It effectively scanned a piece of copy and then recommended tags for it, looked up relevant pics on Flickr and also found relevant stories from around the web and articles on Wikipedia.
Anyway, this morning, I got an e-mail announcing that Zemanta is now ready to try out. It works as a Firefox plug in and then provides suggestions along side the editing window for Blogger, or Wordpress (yes, even Wordpress when you’re hosting it yourself). The screen grab above gives you an idea of how it looks.
It also has a terribly neat thing - that you can see above where it provides links to Wikipedia articles or company home pages, and you just click ‘Apply all’ and they all get edited in.
It’s terribly neat - and unsurprisingly seems to work much better as your posts get longer.
Definitely worth a try.
Simon @ March 26, 2008