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After attending the Next Web 2008 event, I've had another chance to use Zemanta. It's essentially a blog writing assistant delivered as FireFox plugin. It analyses the text of your post using proprietary natural language algorithms and then provides selections of images, links (articles, wiki references) and tags to use in your post. After two years of existence it's now seriously useful.
The algorithms attempt to accurately match these references to the text of the post, in a highly relevant way. I met the principals in London in 2007 and again at the NextWeb conference. The software works by parsing around thousands of blog feeds and news and information sources but hasn't quite got the breadth of content to support more specialist subjects.
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