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Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:29:24 -0000

Thanks

I'll give it a look

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amitaviv — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:48:19 -0000

Hi Fred,

I won't claim to have a comprehensive product such as Zemanta, but I think my product (a FireFox extension) is doing a better job in linking. The link suggestions are in context, you get top search results for each suggestion and not just links from selected sites, and you can select any text and use the same linking method (not only the software suggestions - which admittedly are sometimes lame)
You can download it here: http://kaalga.com
It would be great to hear what you think

Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:39:09 -0000

Hmm. Gotta investigate that

Thanks for telling me about it

Fred

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Nathan Snell — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:06:26 -0000

From seeing a few of your posts using Zemanta, it looks interesting. The first thing that pops out to me, however, is that it's killing your Google Reader excerpt with the "Image via Wikipedia". Nothing huge, but I frequently check out the quick excerpt to quickly decipher posts.

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rahmin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:56:37 -0000

Hey Josh, great to see this full circle as I met both you and Bos at SXSW and now I'm chipping in as the US-based BD guy for Zemanta. Hope things are treating you well at Sphere/AOL

We'd love to hear more of your thoughts on the micropublisher side.

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Tom — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:40:53 -0000

Try www.iloggo.com, also Europen company.
I have meet the founder on LinkedIn and they planned to move company to US...and start looking for VC here. They have very interested business model.

Tom

Re: Trying Zemanta

josh guttman — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:37:00 -0000

I like the three times mantra.

Zemanta is cool. I met Bos in Austin this year and met him and his brother on their last NY trip. Good guys, offering a neat and useful publishing tool, while slightly competitive. I think they have a chance to get good traction among bloggers/micropublishers, though 100% of the links are away from the author.

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evolvor — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:20:07 -0000

THANKS Fred, Zemenata is AWESOME! First you showed my Disqus and now this, my content has doubled in value to the reader.

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Cernigoj — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:53:18 -0000

Zemanta is for sure one of the most visible IT companies in Slovenia. Guys are doing a terrific job at promoting them selves and other slovenian companies like Domenca (lead regional online shoping provider via their online stores), ThirdFrameStudios (world leader in combining mobile and web technology), Marand ( their VAS department is a champ!) and heaps more. But of course, promotion without a product is not worth a lot. And zemanta is great with that too!

I believe that eastern europe is a region with many ideas, many great individuals and companies and with still a lot of room for smart bussiness ideas and VC movement. In my opinion, eastern europe IT region is hotter then silicon valley. And Slovenia, as a country with highest income per capita in the region, is a perfect place to be in lately with a great overview of regional dimensions and capabilities.

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markslater — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:34:50 -0000

your portfolio companies are still blocked here (twitter) fred. I would hedge a bet that you wont be finding too much innovation in the web services space in the UAE

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BP — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:29:23 -0000

Zemanta would be much better with the following changes.

When selecting image I would prefer to select image icon that lets me specify the image url. (I swapped one easily using html provided).. Further, under preferences, it would be helpful to specify google (or other source) for articles. This would tell the software to derive search term based on text and submit to google. I would then use clipboard to specify "article" to embed.

I use as firefox extension with typepad. Thanks for pointing out this useful tool

Re: Trying Zemanta

Jure Cuhalev — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:59:21 -0000

Bryan, we're just bringing you what we think that should be in your blog in form of suggestions. Suggestions are then at the border of your blog and it's up to you to know what's strategically sensible for your blogging style. We're not trying to be smarter than the blogger, but to make your life easier by finding things that we think that would help you and bringing it to you in a way that makes inclusion effortless for you.

Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta

Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:35:59 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:34:02 -0000

Whoa

I'll look into that

Not good

Re: Trying Zemanta

JPersch — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:05:11 -0000

Hey Fred,

When I click Record video comment your etsy ads go into the comment space. Just thought you should know......

Update: must have been my browser ;^)

Re: Trying Zemanta

Bryan Woods — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:25:12 -0000

I used Zemanta on a few posts about two months ago and thought it was at first neat conceptually. The thing they haven't really figured out and harnessed, though, is that linking and image hosting in blogs is far more political and strategic (even on the lowest level) than their software accounts. Most bloggers I know think very carefully about where they link and what images they hotlink, so to have software make these decisions for you based on keywords seems pretty absurd to me. I'd love to see a Zemanta API that could allow for scripts that would rank suggested links in accordance to Technorati rankings or something like that, though.

Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:12:03 -0000

Please do. I'd like to spend 3 days there in late june or early july

Fred

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Poppe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:29:39 -0000

You can't visit Europe without coming to Stockholm and Sweden which has a vibrant start-up scene. I'll send you an email where I'll be happy to set up meetings with some of the hottest startups, greatest entrepreneurs as well as prominent VC's.

Re: Trying Zemanta

Berislav Lopac — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:05:04 -0000

Fred,

As you're coming over I invite you to Zagreb, Croatia -- it's just an hour's drive from Ljubljana. Croatia has recently become quite a startup hub in the southeast Europe, with the Web.Start conference last month (we had both Andraž and Reshma as speakers), a number of interesting startups brewing and a lot of plans for the upcoming months.

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zachlandes — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:30:02 -0000

What a brilliant concept! I will try this out on my blog. Thanks, Fred.

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Philip — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:31:54 -0000

Zementa is great and I am updating some of my old posts. Looking forward to hearing more about Zementa and Seedcamp at CUTEC in Cambridge, UK, last week. I am not sure that one week of Seedcamp is quite like Y Cominbator but with Saul Klein in the driving seat it will not be far behind. Interestingly he has recruited Seedcamp companies from outside the UK - a pity he did not base it in Cambridge Cluster, UK!

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Scott Rafer — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:37:42 -0000

And, I scooped Eric on the Slovenia trip so far. Chasse and I visited the Zemanta guys for a couple days in April. Great!

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Eric Marcoullier — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:26:55 -0000

Wait till you meet Bostjan and Ales, then you'll really love Zemanta. Great companies start with great people.

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mndoci — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:32:49 -0000

... and the quality is steadily improved since it first came out. It's become a key part of my blogging workflow

Re: Trying Zemanta

fredwilson — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:32:04 -0000

Thanks

I will consider it

Fred