Launching in a couple of weeks is Zemanta, the startup which has developed a facility for Wordpress blogs to suggest contextually relevant links, pictures, related content and tags. The upshot? Paste in some text and Zemanta looks at it and then starts to add the most likely links to the text, which you can then edit (something a lot of bloggers would kill for no doubt). Now, stay with me. This kind of application exists a lot in academic and enterprise content management systems but hasn’t appeared on the Web very much to date as these tend to be very CPU/resource intense technologies. So Zemanta is a web service API not unlike Akismet in its ability to look intelligently at content and decide what to do with it. It’s the hottest startup in Slovenia right now (yes, there are more than one, you cynical people) and last year won some seed capital from Seedcamp.
Zemanta Wordpress Plugin Teaser from zemanta on Vimeo.
Also see http://www.clearforest.com and http://www.opencalais.com
Is one of the most exciting startups I have seen in the last 6 months, the short demo they gave at a recent Mashup Event really showed it’s potential. I know it could shave 20-30% time off my blog writing, if they hook up to the right supplies of paid content they will be laughing. Looking forward to it!
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@mike - they also have a shed-load of funding too, in addition to the seedcamp prize
it does have real value to many bloggers. and will increasingly do so as they develop. great work guys
tnx guys for comments, just a few notes.
@robin, we like that product as well and are looking forward to the exciting year 2008, specially with recent yahoo announcement on endorsing semantic web technologies.
@jof, we’ll be announcing that in a couple of days too…
Where’s the $$$ here?
@baah-baah-the-black-sheep - how much would you pay to have ’sheep’ linked up to your website next time Mike makes a post? Looks to me like a great start-up with lots of cash generating potential