Idea: Personal Data Plugin for Wordpress
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?
I know it’s not the same thing, but take a look at Jeremy Keith’s machine tags: http://adactio.com/journal/1274/
Would do the trick, but you had to tag them manually :/
Just a note…
Interesting. I have known about triples/machine tags for a while already, and although they might offer some nice semantically correct basis, you would still need a nice plugin to tie ends together for the user.
That’s actually what next version of Zemanta will support, out in September
Seeing this being implemented turns out that’s quite an interesting challenge.
Hi,
as Jure already said, this is exactly the direction we are working in.
However there are challenges, like do you tag your flickr photos one by one describing what is depicted on them? If you don’t it is impossible for algorithm to find out related images from your ‘limited’ collection. Just wanted to point out there are issues on implementation level.
And yes, we’ll take your social graph and use it to provide more personalized link suggestions - both in-text and releated.
bye (and hope to see you again in London soon)
Andraz Tori, Zemanta
Hmmmm, interesting. So what is the business model for Zemanta then in that model?
Creating the best possible ’smart authoring’ tool!
Basing monetization on the fact we are helping at the point of content creation (default amazon ids if author does not have its own, etc) and on the fact that for automatically going through existing large collections of content we offer an API…
Andraz Tori, Zemanta