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Re: Zemanta

Mike Evans — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:59:24 -0000

I first used it reposting a paragraph from one of your posts a few weeks back. Now I don't know how I lived without it. It really helps with 2 things:
1) giving me relevant links to create deeper, more thoughtful posts
2) increasing the conversation aspect of my blog and moving away from a 1 way communication.
Fantastic!

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:39:18 -0000

It's the greatest little secret in our portfolio

And now they are recommending youtube videos

This morning they recommended two interesting videos to my while I was writing the skype post

I didn't select them, but I could have easily

Re: Zemanta

Mike Evans — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:46:27 -0000

I started using Zemanta on knowist.com after seeing it used here. One of the most enabling technologies I've encountered. Fantastic!

Re: Zemanta

tacanderson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:44:28 -0000

I've been using Zemanta for a while and love the service. Finally got to meet the guys at BlogWorld. They are obviously passionate about what they do and will be fun to watch them evolve. Great job on the investment.

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:35:18 -0000

Sphere's related articles are machine produced. Zemanta's are machine recommended and human selected. That's a very big difference as well

But you right about getting into the feed. That also happens because the content producer includes them in the post at the time of creation

Re: Zemanta

mikedibenedetto — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:25:28 -0000

Just noticed that Zemanta's "Related Articles" are included in GReader (and probably other RSS readers as well). I have used Sphere and liked it but this is a big improvement. Very very interesting.

Re: Zemanta

Jonathan Mendez — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:30:39 -0000

Nice to see you doing something with semantic APIs

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Guest — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:02:50 -0000

I have been using Zemanta at the Social Media Philosophy Project for awhile. Timelady and I, who primarily run the site, both like it a great deal. We replaced Tagaroo with it, which while it gets more pics, does not really do anything else as well. I also hung out with the community manager while I was at Wordcamp, and he was very helpful. Overall, it seems like a definite winner in the long term. I think the main competition, OpenCalais (Tagaroo) is too all over the place to provide any one thing well enough. (just my opinion as of right now, OpenCalais folks, no offense).

Re: Zemanta

Andraz Tori — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:58:11 -0000

We would love to work with Ecto guys to bring Zemanta experience there, and everywhere where the authors are. Part of that strategy is also an open API that can be used by your publishing tool of choice.

Please give us feedback on what you liked and what you didn't, so we can improve the next time around.

Re: Zemanta

Andraz Tori — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:55:40 -0000

Thanks for noticing. Yeah, we know about the problems with WLW and they are getting fixed in Thursday release. We called current WLW plugin "technical preview" because we knew there are always issues with first version.

Well our idea is to deliver the the most relevant content, full stop. :) You might be interested in our "what's popular" site too.. http://www.zemanta.com/popular These are most suggested articles by Zemanta.

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:33:52 -0000

i didn't see your post it in zemanta but the VB one was there.

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:33:01 -0000

dalka, that's coming soon

http://www.zemanta.com/blog...

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fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:32:19 -0000

british company

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:31:30 -0000

i think it works on blogger. if you use firefox or IE, try downloading the plug-in and see if it comes up in the blogger posting window

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:29:52 -0000

you just click on them and they appear at the bottom of the post

Re: Zemanta

Robin Wauters — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:46:39 -0000

Oh come one, we (The Next Web) covered the news right after VB.
http://thenextweb.org/2008/...

If ZDnet can give credit, why can't you?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/sema...

Re: Zemanta

leigh — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:27:43 -0000

Been using it for a while. Looking forward to them having investment and to see what they do with the images search piece. Congrats....Nice to see investment in countries and companies outside the USA,

Re: Zemanta

Dalka — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:30:05 -0000

Yeah what he said. It's the first plugin in a long time that made me say "whoa, this has potential."

It's not perfect, but it has alot of potential.

One thing is that I've not yet seen it use my content elsewhere or redistribute it....

Re: Zemanta

MartinEdic — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:32:04 -0000

I've been using Zemanta since they first announced and I think it works much better than I expected. Sometimes the matching is too broad but that kind of thing will get refined over time. The real story in my opinion is the automation of certain social aspects of content creation. If they can get that right things could get very interesting.

Re: Zemanta

maeo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:59:00 -0000

Fred, Congratulations! Did you invest in a British corporation, a Delaware company or directly to Slovenia?

Re: Zemanta

Mark Evans — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:33:52 -0000

It would be great if Zemanta was integrated into third-party publishing tools such as Ecto as well given I find WP's publishing tool to not be very user-friendly.

I'll have to give Zemanta another try. When I used it a few months ago, I found it more intrusive and balky than a value-add service.

Re: Zemanta

jer979 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:18:58 -0000

Been using Zemanta for about 2 months now and am very impressed. It adds richness to the reader experience. I was even impressed by their customer support (had an issue with the automatic Amazon affiliate ID) to which they responded pretty quickly (though honestly, it still doesn't seem to work all the time, particularly in WLW).

What would be a nice add-on would be some 'digg-like' rating system so that I know which of the suggested links are MOST relevant w/o having to look at EVERY single link.

Anyway, kudos on a nice portfolio add.

Re: Zemanta

Noah David Simon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:05:52 -0000

Zemanta

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StevenWillis — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:57:58 -0000

I have been using Zemanta on my blog for a while and really like the professionalism it adds to my posts with little to no effort. I am very new to the blogging world, but I expect this will be a part of my posting routine.

Re: Zemanta

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:50:33 -0000

philip - i just read this on the zemanta blog

http://www.zemanta.com/blog...

"The development part of the team is working hard to finalize our next release: Zemanta is Getting Personal! With the release, we shifted our tool from being a general suggestion service to personalized service. You’ll be able to upload your sources and limit the suggestion pool to your sources, you’ll be able to search through your Flickr account and point Zemanta to your Twitter account to get related blogs from your friends."