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Storytelling with Zemanta and Instagram

Storytelling has been around since forever. It used to be a primary tool of how humanity transferred knowledge through generations. These days it’s spread over many mediums. Douglas Coupland wrote about storytelling in an interesting, dreamy way in his book Generation A: “How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit [...]

Improving WordPress.org: Enhanced Linking

Links are good, links are swell. Links these days will get you places. We’re trying to make the experience of linking to relevant data as easy as possible. We crawl the web. We integrate knowledge. We prototype interfaces. But what we do is always software within software. We realize there is no point in building [...]

Internal Reflection: Future of Writing

I’ve had a lot of problems with writing lately. Problems with finding time to do it, focusing enough on doing it well and in the end making sense of what I wrote. I’ve tried having my blogging platform set as home pages so whenever I opened a new tab they would pressure me into thinking [...]

Big news: Image settings!

Hello blogosphere! In the last months we have been trying hard to accomodate what our users feel are the most needed features in our service. We may have even talked to you about this. If not, maybe we will in the future. Back on track! We made some big changes to how images are inserted [...]

Going forward: Image previews!

We’ve been grinding it out over here in Ljubljana. Next up for our users: newer, slicker, nicer image previews! We tried to make it as easy as possible to have a quick overview of the suggested images with the appropriate info you need (license and size). They are available right now for all WordPress users [...]

Zemanta now supports Drupal 7!

Some of our users will probably say “Finally!”, and we agree – we have been neglecting Drupal. Falter not, come fall, we are excited to now support Drupal 7! Applause is in order (or not…). As of last week, the new Drupal 7 is out in the wild and you are invited to download your own [...]

Zemanta is hosting a Firefox Release Party on September 28th!

It’s no secret that we love Firefox at Zemanta. It was the first browser we supported as a product and it still makes up the biggest share among our users and developers, too! No one can deny the large impact on the web community and world as a whole that Firefox has had. We’ve all [...]