Idea: Personal Data Plugin for Wordpress

Aug 19
Posted on August 19, 2008 22:59 in Problems & Solutions

I have only used Zemanta for a short time after it was launched, mainly because it makes stuff too easy. I noticed loads of people linking back to me as a “related” article produced by Zemanta and barely had any extra traffic or decent contextual link backs coming from it. It just shows me that the people that use Zemanta “just click” to be done with their post quickly.

The idea

It got me thinking though, what would be handy is a plugin that can get me contextual links and images and other data that are my images, links and data.

To give an example, Alper writes in this post about some “Street Photography” a friend made. He then posts some photos from that friend but he also links back to a photo from himself that is related to street photography. Why isn’t there a plugin that can automatically provide you links of your own Flickr photos for example that are “probably” related to your current post.

Another example, in the same post, Alper talks about the photos he took with his 120mm camera this weekend. He then links back to his trip on Dopplr of last weekend. A plugin that would do a Zemanta-like thing would know Alper’s Dopplr account, guess he either meant next or last weekend, and offer some links to those trips.

I wonder if an all-round plugin like this exists or if it is relatively easy to create one?