Z-Blog

As you might know, Zemanta is taking part in a Seedcamp process. Which means some initial funding and three months of work in London. Yesterday Seedcamp semi-officially ended in an event called “investors day” where all 6 teams/companies presented what we have done in last months and how we plan to take over the world [...]

The Spanish Blogging Conference turned out to be a truly great event. Until now we were mostly talking to bloggers who mainly write in English or Slovenian, so being able to speak to a new group of bloggers underlined quite a few of our ideas and showed us where our focus should be. Most specially [...]

I’ve just got a message from UroÅ¡ saying that we won the EuroPrix TopTalent Award in the category of Content Tools & Interface Design! We applied with Odprti kop solution which we did for Slovenian national television just before founding Zemanta.
It is an award for the most innovative projects in European media space for young [...]

How do you test a complex system that is trying to mimic being smart?
You want to automate testing, so you have your quality meter available for every little change you make. While having unit tests helps catching classical programming regressions, the major part of the challenge is having ’smart part’ under control. Unfortunately the [...]

How can you tell the difference between articles of big media and blogs?
Large majority of old-media that moved to internet has a very strict rules that they should never ever link to sites outside their conglomerate. If by some coincidence they do, they put all the links at the end of the article and make [...]

This weekend Jure (a.k.a. the interface guy) is going to a Evento Blog Espana. He’s going to talk with spanish bloggers and gather some feedback from non-english speakers. If you [dear reader] also happen to be there, leave him a note, he might be in a mood for showing the alpha (jure at zemanta dot [...]