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Archive for August, 2008

Zemanta on TechCrunch (again)

Posted by andraz, under zemanta on August 30th, 2008

Image via CrunchBase
You can find the TC post here, but the background is more interesting:
When TechCrunch decided to open up the API of the CrunchBase we got really excited. CrunchBase is probably the most comprehensive database on tech startups, founders, investors and tech big companies.
We immediately decided to integrate it into our suggestion engine. [...]

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Using Zemanta with Ubiquity project

Posted by jure, under technology on August 29th, 2008

A few days ago Mozilla Labs announced initial preview of Project Ubiquity that allows you to dynamically create powerful combinations of Website mashup in your Firefox with just a few keystrokes. If you’re not familiar with the project, take a look at the video they created:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Now that you fully [...]

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Speeding up Zemanta

Posted by jure, under blogging experience, zemanta on August 26th, 2008

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown
We’ve been busy reading your survey answers, and we noticed that some of you are reporting that Zemanta slows down your browser. Since our previous release already significantly optimized this area of code, I asked engineers what’s going on.
They explained to me that Zemanta uses a lot of JavaScript which [...]

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Zemanta features survey

Posted by jure, under zemanta on August 21st, 2008

Image by {Ellie} via Flickr
Summer is a good time to take a deep breath and take a look at what has been achieved and where do you want to go in the second half of the year. We would like to hear from you, what kind of direction we should take and how we [...]

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Post-Release reviews

Posted by jure, under firstpage, zemanta on August 21st, 2008

A week ago we released a new version of Zemanta, with Live Writer support as one of the biggest improvements. Since then reviews have been appearing all over the blogosphere, and I’ll round up a few of them in this blog post.
Ivana, who blogs at Strategy Stew, wrote a great post titled Flock and Zemanta Target [...]

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OpenCyc wants to be the backbone of semantic web

Posted by andraz, under technology on August 19th, 2008

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Cyc is one of the most notorious projects in artificial intelligence. Now spanning for over 20 years it has yet to deliver on initial promise of human-reasoning capabilities. While initial goals were too ambitious, we should still be quite happy with the achievements. Especially now when it seems Cycorp (owner of Cyc) [...]

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