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Here’s a newsletter we’ve sent out to our subscribers. Reposting also on our blog so it’s easier to link to it.

Zemanta December ’08 Newsletter

Looking back at all the new things we released in last few months, we decided that it is time to recap all the features that make Zemanta the best blogging helper.

Feel free to share this newsletter with your blogging friends, so they can also blog faster and easier.

More than just Wikipedia links

Zemanta will recommend links to many different web locations:

• Amazon (for books and CD’s)
• IMDB (Movies, actors and writers)
• Blogs and Homepages of people and companies
• Google Maps
• YouTube videos
• FaceBook, MyBlogLog and Twitter profiles of your friends
• Yahoo Finance for Stock symbols and CrunchBase for startups
• Wikipedia, ITIS (Taxonomic system), NCBI (Biotechnology), MusicBrainz

Multiple images

You can insert multiple images into your blog post by using drag and drop. http://bit.ly/zdragdrop

Case studies: Zemanta for Music and Book bloggers

Are you blogging about Music or Books? Take a look at our case studies to figure out how to make the best of Zemanta to help you blog faster and also make some money in the process:

Zemanta for Book Bloggers: http://bit.ly/zembook
Zemanta for Music Bloggers: http://bit.ly/zmusic

More image databases
All the images we recommend are licensed for most bloggers. We display license for each one before inserting it and also make sure there’s proper attribution. Our images come from:

• Flickr Creative Commons
• Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia
• Amazon book and CD covers
• Getty Images provided by Daylife
• CrunchBase logos and pictures of founders
• Your Flickr account. You can set this up in Zemanta Preferences.

We know who your friends are

If you tell us your Facebook, MyBlogLog or Twitter username, we’ll be able to recognize your friends name when you mention them in your blog and link to them and show you their avatar photo. You can set this up in Zemanta Preferences.

Help us with mind-reading

Not exactly satisfied by our mind-reading skills? Click on “filter” in Zemanta widget and enter your keyword. We’ll then try our best to recommend everything around that keyword while still looking at your text. http://bit.ly/zemfilter

We support 12 different ways to blog!

You can blog with Zemanta on WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, MovableType, Tumblr, Drupal, Ning, MySpace, DotClear as well as LiveWriter and Knol.

Final words

We wish you happy holidays and a good start of 2009. Let us know if there is anything we can do to make it a good blogging year for you. The simplest way is by pressing “reply” button on this email. commenting on this post.

For Zemanta Team,

– Jure