Many of you have written to us asking for more images and articles. With today’s update we bring you exactly that. Now every ’suggestions refresh’ brings you more images and articles, together with history of suggestions throughout the post. Moreover when you hover over the images you now get a bigger image preview, together with description and license. This way deciding what picture you want in your blog is easier and without excessive clicking.

We also added LiveJournal to the list of supported blogging platforms. The experience is the same as on any other platform.

Full release notes:

• Image and articles browsing with history
• Improved tool-tips
• LiveJournal support
• Firefox Extension is now properly signed

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.

New Wordpress release after these long months of just bug-fix releases is something most us are really excited about as it brings much improved dashboard interface together with other improvements.

So we worked over the weekend to bring you Wordpress 2.5 support. It’s still experimental so no tag support yet and there are some layout glitches but we’ll have this fixed for you in next few days.

How to enable it: Restart your Firefox and point it your freshly upgraded/installed Wordpress 2.5.

If you do not see Zemanta sidebar, Open Firefox Preferences, Advanced tab, Network tab, Cache -> Clear now. Restart Firefox.

If it still does not work, report it in comments on this blog post, or use our getsatisfaction.com/zemanta support forum and we’ll try to figure it out.

Reading Clive Thompsons article in Decembers Wired about how everyone is a micro-celebrity with their own blog, Facebook profile and life stream of twitter twits and flickr images, I reflected on my own experience. Meeting a lot of friends around christmas festivities we of course chat about what was happening in the past year, yet this year was different. Since I started posting on my blog/twitter/flickr a bit more often recently I’ve started hearing interesting replies on my conversations openers. Mostly it is something along the lines: ”I know, I’ve seen it on your blog.”

Writing a personal blog is thus very similar to having your very own tabloid  with small but tasty details of your life. Depending on what type of person you are, you might enjoy this fact or become shocked that people know much more about you than you expected. Most likely they also talk to each other about things you lifecasted.

But talking about other people in your personal tabloid is hard right now. This is why our plugin has capability to recommend stories and links to other people, so it is much easier for you to connect special sections (trackbacks) of your upcoming editorials. 

This weekend Jure (a.k.a. the interface guy) is going to a Evento Blog Espana. He’s going to talk with spanish bloggers and gather some feedback from non-english speakers. If you [dear reader] also happen to be there, leave him a note, he might be in a mood for showing the alpha (jure at zemanta dot com).

Also he just updated me on the buzzwords we should be using when addressing tech community. So here it goes: we are BJAX!

All those nasty things we are doing with Firefox extension actually have their own name! BJAX means Browser Extensions and AJAX. The plugin does the following: when the page just loaded is identified as a “create new post” it injects a bunch of javascript that provides all the Zemanta functionality, plus some dirty details. This means people will be able to have Zemanta experience even when blogging on hosted platforms.

Isn’t that great?