Guest Author Jure Cuhalev

Mr. Cuhalev is Zemanta’s community manager: Anyone who has ever created content knows how much work it is. You have to research your idea and find relevant resources around it while still keeping in mind how it’s going to look in the end. This is exactly the problem bloggers have every day when writing their posts – how to find good content so their blogs will look good.

Zemanta is a free content recommendation add-on for bloggers that tries to solve this problem. While you write your blog posts, it searches for best additional content for your blogs: articles, images, tags and hyperlinks. Writers can easily insert them into their blog posts by single click or drag and drop.

The reason it works so well is that in contrast to traditional search engines that use keyword based search queries, Zemanta works on whole body of text and analyzes it using a set of natural language processing technologies that allows us to actually identify different concepts in text and provide results based on that.

As an alternative to traditional search engines, Zemanta also uses a different search interface.

Instead of having a separate web page, it integrates directly into most of blogging platforms, either through native plugins or via Firefox and Internet Explorer extensions. The basic idea is that best recommendations appear while you’re writing.

Because of this tight integration, it can also offer personalization targeted at bloggers. They can define their own blog sources to search against and import their Twitter/Facebook/MyBlogLog contacts for automatic recognition while writing.

Recommended content is selected from variety of databases licensed for bloggers with automatic proper image attribution in place. Links are recommended for many different destination sites: Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, YouTube, Google Maps, Yahoo Finance and 9 more.

For interested 3rd party developers, there is also an API and SDK for authoring solutions or just for automatic meta-tagging of their content.

Zemanta : un plugin d’aide à la rédaction de contenu éditorial

Zemanta fait parti de ces bonnes trouvailles du web pour vous aider à enrichir le contenu de vos posts lors de leur rédaction. Il s’agit en fait d’une extension pour Firefox ou IE qui s’installe très rapidement. Une fois installée, connectez-vous à votre interface Wordpress.

Read the rest of this post (in French) at the Ramenos Blog.

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