June release: support for Drupal, MySpace, Tumblr and Ning
Posted by jure, under releases on July 1st, 2008
Just before the summer heat kicks in we are releasing a refresh of our services, fixing some legacy issues and expanding our reach to four new platforms: Drupal, MySpace, Tumblr and Ning. We also upgraded Reblog and generally improved stability and responsiveness.
New platforms
By popular demand we’ve expanded the platform support with first non-traditional blogging platforms. Bloggers using Drupal, MySpace, Tumblr and Ning can now leverage our service as well. This adds up to 9 major supported platforms.
This is a significant development, since most of us use more than just one of these platforms. Chances are you are using Drupal for work, Ning for a side project and Myspace for private stuff. Zemanta will be available to you whenever you need it with just one install!
Drupal - now you can enhance all of your content. We support all of the content writing screens. We have both Drupal Zemanta plugin and a Browser extension support.
MySpace - you can enhance your MySpace blogs.
Ning - blogs are now supported. Since there is no graphical editor for Ning, it’s a bit more of text as the other platforms.
Tumblr - we support enhancing of Text tumbls.
Reblog
This release features greatly improved reblog service. We’ve simplified it so you can create rich quote-based posts with just a few clicks.
The reblog button also has two new features: firstly it’s a brand new design that should look nice on most of blog themes, and secondly reblog now works correctly also for feed-readers (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.).
Updated reblog
New reblog buttons
General updates:
- Zemanta widget is now much faster on all platforms.
- Related articles don’t have [via Zemanta] text anymore.
- Plugins for MovableType and Wordpress got updated to not clash with installed Browser add-on anymore
- Both Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons are upgraded for improved performance and stability, and to better support new platforms
- Link detection got an upgrade
- Picture search should find less false positives now (40% error rate reduction for those who care about such benchmarks








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Pingback by Lazy blogger tool Zemanta adds MySpace support and more | Blogging — 1. Jul, 2008 @ 19:44
Question, do we need to download anything new to take advantage of these new features?
~Laura Iriarte/aka lauralovesart
Comment by Laura Iriarte — 5. Jul, 2008 @ 19:39
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Zemanta - Blogbeiträge und Content anreichern…
Zemanta, was wohl an ’semantisch’ gemahnen soll, ist ein Tool zur anreicherung von Webinalten mit Tags, Fotos (hoffentlich Attrib-Commercial?) und Links zu ähnlichen Inhalten.
Das tut es nicht beim Surfen sondern schon und ausschließlich beim Verf…
Trackback by Oliver Gassner — 7. Jul, 2008 @ 11:45
Hi! This sounds like an extremely useful tool.
I just installed the Firefox plugin. While it does work on my personal tumblog, it doesn’t work on my group tumblog — which is where I actually post. I’m guessing it just needs to recognize http://www.tumblr.com/group/###/new/text rather than only looking for http://www.tumblr.com/new/text ?
Also, it’d be great if the zemanta service worked for other types of tumblr posts; almost everything on boxofmeat.net is a link, with some additional commentary & links in the description section.
I’ll look forward to the next version….
Comment by J.D. — 25. Jul, 2008 @ 20:56
Adding support for group tumble’s sounds easy enough. We’ll try to have that in for our next release in a few weeks.
Regarding the other types, we work best with at least paragraph of text, so we’re a bit vary of supporting links or images. But we’ll reevaluate it.
Comment by jure — 26. Jul, 2008 @ 14:36
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