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Content suggestion engine for WordPress
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Content suggestion engine for WordPress: TechCrunch has an interesting article this morning on the Alpha release of a product called Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine and works with WordPress and Firefox. With nothing to install on the blog, and a simple FF extension, Zemanta creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress with suggestions on what to add to your content. This information is gathered real time from various media publication sites and blogs. I am watching the Zemanta control box as I type this post and it seems to update after regular intervals with new suggestions.
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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 08-03-28
http://www.shankrila.com/tech-stuff/firefox-extensions-picks...I have been a little busy this week and sorry for the slow posting this week. As my regular readers know, I try to put quality before quantity and rather post 3 good posts a week than just regurgitating news thats circulating everywhere. I hope that
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Zemanta
http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2008/04/01/zemanta/Zemanta 1st April 2008, 08:39 pm I often find myself casting around for ideas for new posts or even what to write on a post I had thought about. It all makes so much more sense in my head. And then, a stroke of luck! On my dashboard there was a link to a story on Mark Ghosh’s blog Weblog Tools Collection. So I followed it. And that tortuos story brings us here, I installed a Firefox extension by Zemanta. Called Zemanta. There will be screenshots later, but for now let’s talk about what it does. I quote their front page here: Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant. We are making blogging fun again.
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Affiliate Marketing Mashups
http://bookmarkmoney.tumblr.com/post/30343719Originally posted at The BookMarkMoney.com Blog First off, I’d like to extend congratulations to Ruck, at Cash Tactics. This week he announced that his first daughter was born. It sounds like everything is going well, so I’d like to welcome him to a new world of concern. As the old saying goes: If you have a son you only need to worry about one prick. If you have a daughter, you need to worry about every prick in town. My daughter is only 17 months old, and already the boys her age are giving her the eye. I fear that it will only get worse from here. Now, on to the goodies. Affiliate Marketing For those just getting started in affiliate marketing, Sean at the Warrior Blog has a tutorial that takes you through all of the steps - researching, locating, and then finally cashing the checks. I wish I had known about this when I had first started out. Your First Clickbank Sale. Build a Niche Store (BANS) is something I’ve been looking into for a while. When my wife goes back to work, I may just break down and purchase it, since I’ve heard noting but good things about it. Affiliate Confession has a 7 part series on setting up and using BANS. A very good place to start if you want an easier entry into affiliate marketing. Build A Niche Store Tutorials Overview - Parts 1-7 Part 1 - What BANS Does And Does Not Do Part 2 - Niche Brainstorming And Getting A Domain Name Part 3 - Installing And Setting Up Your BANS Affiliate Store Part 4 - Tweaking Your eBay Affiliate Store Part 5 - Adding Some Content To Your eBay Store Part 6 - Article Marketing And Getting Links Part 7 - Using USFreeAds.com For Traffic And Getting More Links Article Marketing The Warrior Blog has a tutorial on Article Marketing for promotional purposes. I know that a lot of people recommend doing article marketing, but it seems like a lot of work, that I’d be better off channeling elsewhere. Mashups Although it’s over a year old, Paul O’Brien’s list of Mashups created with Yahoo! Pipes is still a pretty good read to help inspire ideas for your own mashup. I’m not sure of the date on this one, but SEO Book had a nice roundup of specific Pipes. If you’ve been dying to create a mashup, but can’t program and can’t afford a program, Open Kapow may be for you. Using their simple tools, literally anyone can create a mashup in minutes just by pointing and clicking. Extremely useful if you want to use data from sites that don’t provide an Application Programming Interface (API) or Ready Site Syndication (RSS) feed. Black Hat If you have a Wordpress Blog, then Jimmy at Seeds for Wealth has a technique for raping Digg’s traffic. At best this trick is grey hat, at worst it’s black hat, but getting links from Digg is never a bad thing. Continuing along the path to the Dark Side, Jimmy has tips on getting big trafic from BlogCatalog, and another one for using your avatar as visitor bait. If you’ve been wondering how certain sellers always rank so high on eBay’s Pulse page, someone placed them under the magnifying glass, and found out that there’s a lot of cheating going on behind the scenes. estreet at Watched Item watched some top sellers on eBay Pulse, and gathered some compelling evidence that there is rampant cheating going on. Datafeeds 5 Star Affiliate Programs has a pretty extensive list of affiliate datafeeds ready for integration into your website. Affiliate Datafeeds are great, because they help generate a lot of content for search engines to spider, as well as helping to monetize your website. Extensive Squidoo Lens on Datafeeds Tools Marc Ghosh at Weblog Tools Collection posted this week introducing us to Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine that works with Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPress installations.Zemanta is a simple FireFox extension that creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress, and makes real-time suggestions for related news stories, Wikipedia articles, and Flickr photos. I’m very excited to start using this. You can also keep up to date with the latest happenings at Zemanta’s Blog. WordPress Plugins Jeffro2pt0 at Weblog Tools Collection rounded up 10 WP plugins that fight comment spam. I personally use WP Spam Free from Hybrid 6, and have no complaints with it. I do disable it every so often to see how much it actually stops, and It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes. Freebies Since I like free stuff, here’s my link to Robbing Craigslist. If you want a free copy, just link to it from your blog too. Emarket Scout tipped me off the the following: Freebies for Writers, Authors, and Screenwriters., Self Growth Freebies, and Free stuff for Windows Power Users.
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Black Hat Mashups
http://bookmarkmoney.com/blog/black-hat-mashups.htmlFirst off, I’d like to extend congratulations to Ruck, at Cash Tactics. This week he announced that his first daughter was born. It sounds like everything is going well, so I’d like to welcome him to a new world of concern. As the old saying goes: If you have a son you only need to worry about one prick. If you have a daughter, you need to worry about every prick in town. My daughter is only 17 months old, and already the boys her age are giving her the eye. I fear that it will only get worse from here. Now, on to the goodies. Affiliate Marketing For those just getting started in affiliate marketing, Sean at the Warrior Blog has a tutorial that takes you through all of the steps - researching, locating, and then finally cashing the checks. I wish I had known about this when I had first started out. Your First Clickbank Sale. Build a Niche Store (BANS) is something I’ve been looking into for a while. When my wife goes back to work, I may just break down and purchase it, since I’ve heard noting but good things about it. Affiliate Confession has a 7 part series on setting up and using BANS. A very good place to start if you want an easier entry into affiliate marketing. Build A Niche Store Tutorials Overview - Parts 1-7 Part 1 - What BANS Does And Does Not Do Part 2 - Niche Brainstorming And Getting A Domain Name Part 3 - Installing And Setting Up Your BANS Affiliate Store Part 4 - Tweaking Your eBay Affiliate Store Part 5 - Adding Some Content To Your eBay Store Part 6 - Article Marketing And Getting Links Part 7 - Using USFreeAds.com For Traffic And Getting More Links Article Marketing The Warrior Blog has a tutorial on Article Marketing for promotional purposes. I know that a lot of people recommend doing article marketing, but it seems like a lot of work, that I’d be better off channeling elsewhere. Mashups Although it’s over a year old, Paul O’Brien’s list of Mashups created with Yahoo! Pipes is still a pretty good read to help inspire ideas for your own mashup. I’m not sure of the date on this one, but SEO Book had a nice roundup of specific Pipes. If you’ve been dying to create a mashup, but can’t program and can’t afford a program, Open Kapow may be for you. Using their simple tools, literally anyone can create a mashup in minutes just by pointing and clicking. Extremely useful if you want to use data from sites that don’t provide an Application Programming Interface (API) or Ready Site Syndication (RSS) feed. Black Hat If you have a Wordpress Blog, then Jimmy at Seeds for Wealth has a technique for raping Digg’s traffic. At best this trick is grey hat, at worst it’s black hat, but getting links from Digg is never a bad thing. Continuing along the path to the Dark Side, Jimmy has tips on getting big trafic from BlogCatalog, and another one for using your avatar as visitor bait. If you’ve been wondering how certain sellers always rank so high on eBay’s Pulse page, someone placed them under the magnifying glass, and found out that there’s a lot of cheating going on behind the scenes. estreet at Watched Item watched some top sellers on eBay Pulse, and gathered some compelling evidence that there is rampant cheating going on. Datafeeds 5 Star Affiliate Programs has a pretty extensive list of affiliate datafeeds ready for integration into your website. Affiliate Datafeeds are great, because they help generate a lot of content for search engines to spider, as well as helping to monetize your website. Extensive Squidoo Lens on Datafeeds Tools Marc Ghosh at Weblog Tools Collection posted this week introducing us to Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine that works with Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPress installations.Zemanta is a simple FireFox extension that creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress, and makes real-time suggestions for related news stories, Wikipedia articles, and Flickr photos. I’m very excited to start using this. You can also keep up to date with the latest happenings at Zemanta’s Blog. WordPress Plugins Jeffro2pt0 at Weblog Tools Collection rounded up 10 WP plugins that fight comment spam. I personally use WP Spam Free from Hybrid 6, and have no complaints with it. I do disable it every so often to see how much it actually stops, and It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes. Freebies Since I like free stuff, here’s my link to Robbing Craigslist. If you want a free copy, just link to it from your blog too. Emarket Scout tipped me off the the following: Freebies for Writers, Authors, and Screenwriters., Self Growth Freebies, and Free stuff for Windows Power Users. Post from: The BookmarkMoney Blog Black Hat Mashups
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Content Suggestion For Wordpress
http://www.blogtechguy.com/50/content-suggestion-for-wordpre...Just a quick note, if you use Firefox, there is a new release of a content suggestion plugin for the Write screen in Wordpress (and Typepad and Blogger). Note that this is a plugin for Firefox and NOT a Wordpress plugin, but does add functionality to Wordpress. More info can be found at Zemanta. It’s an Alpha release which means it is early testing code, but if you want to give it a try, then here’s a demo video below. If you do try it, please let me know what you think! Zemanta Wordpress Plugin Teaser from zemanta on Vimeo [Via: Weblog Tools Collection] Life Goggles - Green product reviews, news and interviews
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Blogging Fail
http://the-gay-bar.com/index.php?/archives/1237-Blogging-Fai...So Wordpress 2.5 is out (which for many people means: "Blogging 2.5 is out") and it has a new feature: A content suggestion engine. So when you open your dashboard you get wordpress telling you about the newest bullshit-bingo-y thing, the newest product that someone paid good money to get it presented to every wordpress blog out there. If you use the content suggestion engine to decide what to write about that is pretty much the best sign that you should really really stop what you're doing and delete your wordpress directory from your webserver: Write about something that matters to you or don't waste everyone's time by spreading more ads through the world. Ads are the cancer of the web, we need to get rid of them, not have more. Don't be part of the problem. EDIT: It's an extension that's not automatically installed, I read about it somewhere and that article suggested that it was. My bad. So you only suck if you install it, it's not there to taint your installation automatically
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Darauf hat die Welt gewartet!
http://www.tamagothi.de/2008/03/30/darauf-hat-die-welt-gewar...Nein, ich meine nicht den Weltuntergang. Darüber würde ich etwas reißerischer bloggen. Und. Nein, ich meine auch nicht WordPress 2.5, obwohl die Welt darauf wohl auch gewartet hat. Aber vielleicht noch viel wichtiger als eine Software zum Bloggen sind die Inhalte, die der Blogger schließlich bloggt. Und das kann einem Blogger ja schon mal schwer fallen, ein paar Inhalte zum Bloggen zu finden. Doch. Damit ist jetzt Schluss! Die endgültige Endlösung der Inhaltsfrage ist gekommen, und zwar ganz so, wie man sich das bei einem technischen Medium immer gewünscht hätte, ist sie auf technischem Wege gekommen. Es gibt endlich eine technische Möglichkeit, Vorschläge für mögliche Inhalte beim Schreiben eines Blogbeitrages einblenden zu lassen. (Die folgende, etwas freie Übelsetzung des verlinkten Textes ist von mir.) Heute morgen gab es einen interessanten Artikel bei TechCrunch über die Alpha-Version eines Produktes namens Zemanta. Zemanta ist eine mit WordPress und Firefox zusammenarbeitende, kontextuelle mechanische Vorrichtung, die dem Blogger Inhalte vorschlägt. Innerhalb des Blogs braucht nichts installiert zu werden, es handelt sich um eine Erweiterung für Firefox. Diese Erweiterung erzeugt einen kleinen AJAX-Bereich an der Seite ihres Beitragseditors in WordPress; und diese Box enthält Vorschläge, worüber sie schreiben können. Diese Information wird von verschiedenen Orten mit Publikationen der Medien und von anderen Blogs abgeholt. […] (Auch, wenn es so klingt: Es ist noch nicht der 1. April und dieser Text ist echt. Er erschien vor ein paar Tagen als Verweis im WP-Dashboard, damit die Blogger ihn auch bemerken. Er ist auch zutreffend ins Deutsche übertragen worden. Die Welt ist wirklich so weit. Und so. Reif. Zum Pflücken reif.) Das ist genau die richtige Software für jene armen Seelen, die auch bloggen wollen, obwohl sie eigentlich gar nichts zu bloggen haben. Warum so jemand bloggen soll? Na ja, weil man es eben tut. Oder weiß nicht. Und. Vor. Allem. Wegen der eingeblendeten Werbung, zu der allein noch kein Klicktrottel kommen will – da muss man schon ein bisschen Inhaltssimulation machen. Der automatische Blick in verschiedene, etablierte Medien gibt denn auch gleich das, was der Klicktrottel sehen will. Auch Hinweise auf attraktive Bildchen zum Verfeinern der eigenen Nichtsigkeit mit einem bisschen massenmedial-bildlich dargestellter Politik und einem bisschen Tittitainment vom Boulevard de la turd fehlen nicht im Angebot dieser wegweisenden technischen Lösung. Das ist die Zukunft des Bloggens! Eine riesige Echokammer, in der widerhallt, was die Contentindustrie so täglich ausspeit. Das ist die Zukunft des Bloggens, die keiner Presse mehr gefährlich wird und die auch politisch völlig unbedenklich ist. Die ideale Ergänzung für Mitmensch Dumpfbacke auf dem Weg zum A-Blogger. Allerdings hat es sich bereits beim Alpha-Test erwiesen, dass das Zielpublikum dieser Software damit überfordert ist, aus den angebotenen, gefilterten Inhalten die richtigen auszuwählen. In den kommenden Versionen wird daher eine technische Lösung erwartet, die interessante und klickfreudige Blogbeiträge vollautomatisch erstellt, damit sich der Blogger endlich wieder auf das Wesentliche konzentrieren kann: Auf »coole« technische Spielereien und Fluten eingeblendeter Reklame. Das ist es, worauf die Welt gewartet hat. Endlich ist die Inhaltskrise in den Millionen von Blogs beendet. Eine genial einfache Idee, die das Bloggen revolutionieren wird. Endlich entsteht auch in den Händen privater Autoren Qualitätsjournalismus mit allen Merkmalen des Clipboards sorgfältiger Recherche. Das ist die nächste Stufe, das ist die viel beschworene Konvergenz, das ist das Mitmach-Web, das Web zwei null. Vor allem null.
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Zemanta, apoyo en Flash Ajax para tus posts
http://mangasverdes.es/2008/03/28/zemanta-apoyo-en-flash-par...Estoy probando Zemanta, una herramienta ‘milagrosa’ que acabo de descubrir vía Weblog Tools Collection y que me parece fantástica, con matices. Es un simple plugin para Firefox que, por ahora, trabaja con WordPress (tanto WordPress.com como en tu servidor), Blogger y TypePad. Simplemente descargas e instalas como es tradicional en Firefox, es decir todo automático, y al reiniciar el navegador comienzas directamente a flipar. Una vez te diriges a la página de escritura-edición de tu panel de control y comienzas a escribir un nuevo artículo, te aparecerá un nuevo elemento en el sidebar del editor (imágenes de Flickr y artículos relacionados), y dos ventanitas bajo el editor (una de enlaces, al parecer siempre extraídos de la Wikipedia) y otra de etiquetas). Y todo generado de forma automática según el contenido del post, de tal forma que te resulta muy sencillo añadir fotos, enlaces o etiquetas al artículo sobre el que estés trabajando, simplemente pulsando sobre las sugerencias que te vengan bien. Las ventanas se refrescan cada 300 caracteres, aproximadamente, actualizándose con el contenido añadido. Todo esto que les comento es probándolo desde WordPress, así que puede que en otras plataformas tenga algunas ligeras diferencias. Los matices: veo que está todo orientado al mercado anglosajón, por lo que los recursos que se ofrecen te obligan a ignorar un poco la blogosfera, algo que esperemos se resuelva en breve. Igualmente, los enlaces traen por defecto etiquetas que no me convencen, como el ‘rel=’homepage’, el ‘target=’_blank’ o el class=’zem_slink’. Por lo demás, todo estupendo. De hecho, los enlaces y artículo relacionados que aparecen en este post se han añadido automáticamente utilizando Zemanta. La imagen, no, porque no había ninguna que me gustara. Nota: No funciona el editar, sólo al escribir un nuevo artículo. Importante: no instala nada en tu blog, todo se hace desde Firefox, ¿no es increíble? Artículos relacionados añadidos por Zemanta: Related articles Zementa Brings a Semantic Layer to Your Blog [via Zemanta] Trying out Zemanta [via Zemanta] A content suggestion engine for blogging? That could work… [via Zemanta] Actualización (28 mar-19.37 h): Corregido el lapsus en el titular. Evidentemente, no es en Flash, sino en Ajax. 7 opciones para crear tu propio Digg (2)Comparativa de Six Apart vs Automattic (0)Análisis de Weebly, ¿una amenaza para TypePad y WordPress.com? (15)FeedBurner Feed Stats plugin para WordPress (4)Identicon da paso a Monster ID en WordPress (2)Mangas Verdes ya es UTF-8 (12)Reinvigorator 'instala' Reinvigorate en tu blog (1)Trabajando con el Simple Tagging plugin para WordPress (6)Identicon plugin para WordPress (0)Feedeliza, el widget social de Bitacoras.com (2)
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Zemanta: a tool for lazy bloggers
http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2008/03/28/zemanta-a-tool-for-la...I just learned about this new service that “enhances” your blog’s content, called Zemanta. You type in your blog post and it does your research for you, resulting in a selection of relevant links, articles, and photos that you can then insert into your post. When I first saw this (via Weblog Tools Collection) I thought the whole idea was pretty goofy. But then I guiltily remembered all the times I haven’t bothered to add Amazon links to the books I’m writing about, let alone links to support my arguments. So I decided to try out the demo. First, I typed in a quick review (using all the proper jargon of course). Here’s a screenshot: Whoops, I cropped off the Go button. There is a Go button. When you hit the Go button, a list of links, articles, photos, and tags is generated, like so: Hmmm. I detect some problems. First, the links. You can click on “Apply all” without even knowing what you are linking to! Hopefully, the book titles will turn out to be links to Amazon (or Powell’s). Hopefully, the author’s name will turn out to be a link to either Norton’s P O’B website or perhaps The Gunroom — but which? And why is there a link to “Capt.”? Second, the tags. Check out the tags it chose. Government? Embassies and Consulates? Captain? If you clicked “Apply all” for those tags I wouldn’t be surprised if Google penalized you for keyword stuffing. Well, let’s see what happens when I click on Apply All: Dang! All the links turned out to be from Wikipedia. While I find Wikipedia a great source for many things, particularly for quick answers to simple factual questions, it is the last place I would link to when writing a book review. Wikipedia articles about books tend to be more like Cliff notes than anything else, with dry plot “summaries” that are full of spoilers and terribly boring to read. The Wikipedia articles about Patrick O’Brian’s books (the few articles I’ve looked at, anyway) convey absolutely nothing of the series’ charm. Then there’s the “Capt.” link, which turns out to be a Wikipedia article titled “Captain (United States)” — completely irrelevant to my blog post. Last but not least, all those people who arrive at my Patrick O’Brian review because they were looking for information about Embassies and Consulates are going to be a bit annoyed. In conclusion: I don’t know. Maybe my “article” was too short. Maybe if I’d blabbed on and on in great detail about my favorite author I would have gotten better links and more relevant tags. But to be on the safe side, I’d suggest that if you use this thing, use it with caution. Don’t click on “Apply all” indiscriminately. If you hover over the link list the sources will pop up: make sure you do that. Zemanta is in “alpha” so perhaps there is still time for the developers to make some changes. I would suggest removing the Apply all option and/or making it so that you have to see the source of each link before you approve it. But the concept is kinda cool. ShareThis
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