Some of you wrote to us saying that Zemanta does not load for you sometimes so after a few quiet bugfix releases we think we finally found the bug and squashed it. The fix should make it more reliable on all of our platforms.

If you are still seeing a problem of orange box instead of whole post loading, please first clear your Firefox cache. If it still doesn’t work drop us a line at getsatisfaction.com/zemanta.

Image via WikipediaIt’s a road trip time for Zemanta this week. We’re visiting sunny San Francisco for O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo and to meet with our friends from the area. Since we know that a lot of bloggers using us are from the Bay area, we would love to meet you and talk to you what we can do to make blogging even easier for you.

To get in touch you can private message on twitter or make me a friend at CrovdWine or just use old fashioned email approach - jure@zemanta.com

At least according to RedHerring we are. We were nominated RedHerring 100 Europe Winner yesterday at the great conference that was held in Malta. Warm air, fresh fish, great companies and great company of entreprenours and investors made this event one of the most enjoyable in Europe.

Thanks to the organizers for recognizing us, and as Alex demanded from the winners yesterday, we will do our best to become sucessful!

Full Wordpress 2.5 and new Wordpress.com support is one of the loudest request we got from you. Together with release of new Firefox 3 beta 5, they were such large changes that it warrants a new minor release. We actually rolled out our code last week, so you are already using latest Zemanta with support for all the new stuff.

Besides support for new platform and browser, we also made a couple of tweaks to our engine so it now supports even more links to resources other than Wikipedia. We also changed the drop-down default to non-wikipedia source when we can suggest such link.

The last change to our engine is the size of Blog index. In last few weeks we managed to triple our index of articles. We also started working on adding your blogs into our aggregator.

In short:

* WordPress 2.5 and new Wordpress.com support
* FireFox 3 Beta 5 support
* increased the number of suggestions to non-wikipedia sources


Image from WikipediaAs some have noted we are eager to listen what you are saying about Zemanta service. We would like it to work like magic. Obviously we already addressed the biggest issue - Wodpress 2.5 support, but there are many more that are awaiting.
While I can’t tell you yet which features we will implement, I can do a quick summary of what, it seems, are the most requested features:

• Browsing through images and articles.
• LiveWriter plugin (this was massive)
• Zemanta logo at the bottom of posts being optional
• More links to different sites (apart from Wikipedia)
• Ability to prefer your old posts and blogs from the blogroll
• Spanish, German, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindii and other languages support
• Cleaner and nicer HTML we insert

Please post more feature requests as comments to this post. And please let your imagination free, don’t be afraid to dream about what Zemanta can bring.