I wanted to write about Zemanta, one of the most powerful firefox addon I’ve used which has helped me speed up time taken to blog about anything.
I’d boldly say this addon has reduced the time I take to blog by around 20% – 25%.
What does Zemanta do ?
Zemanta does a whole bunch of things for me. It has a smart engine which understands what I’m writing about and gets me relevant
1> images (also ensures none of these images are copyrighted.)
2> relevant links and,
3> Best suitable tags for my post ( SEO advantage)
How can I get Zemanta for my Blog ?
You can download Zemanta from http://www.zemanta.com/download/ . It is available as a plugin for firefox and there is an Internet explorer plugin too.
Zemanta is supported on a bunch of blogging platform, almost all the famous ones. Some of them are WordPress.com, Self-hosted WordPress.org 2.1+, Blogger.com, TypePad, Ning, MySpace, LiveJournal, MovableType, Tumblr, Drupal. Zemanta also has a version for Microsoft Live Writer too, that supports a number of other platforms through XML-RPC. Users have reported to sucesfuly use it with above platform as well as Vox, SquareSpace.
What Next ?
Once you’ve installed the Zemanta plugin, you are good to go. Restart Firefox or IE and you’ll see Zemanta integrated to your favorite blogging platform.
Just start writing and you’ll see Zemanta in action :).
[ Download Zemanta ]