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.

Full Wordpress 2.5 and new Wordpress.com support is one of the loudest request we got from you. Together with release of new Firefox 3 beta 5, they were such large changes that it warrants a new minor release. We actually rolled out our code last week, so you are already using latest Zemanta with support for all the new stuff.

Besides support for new platform and browser, we also made a couple of tweaks to our engine so it now supports even more links to resources other than Wikipedia. We also changed the drop-down default to non-wikipedia source when we can suggest such link.

The last change to our engine is the size of Blog index. In last few weeks we managed to triple our index of articles. We also started working on adding your blogs into our aggregator.

In short:

* WordPress 2.5 and new Wordpress.com support
* FireFox 3 Beta 5 support
* increased the number of suggestions to non-wikipedia sources


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.

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?