Image via WikipediaActually we don’t know exactly how big we are, but we are in Portuguese Wikipedia. This is the first Wikipedia article about Zemanta that we know of (thank you Dasilvaorg whoever you are!)

Zemanta only supports English language for now, but people tend not to care about that too much. We are seeing a lot of Spanish and after that French and German sent to the system for processing. We are sorry, but currently we are not supporting those languages, so any good results you might get out of our system are a mere coincidence.

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


Image from WikipediaAs some have noted we are eager to listen what you are saying about Zemanta service. We would like it to work like magic. Obviously we already addressed the biggest issue - Wodpress 2.5 support, but there are many more that are awaiting.
While I can’t tell you yet which features we will implement, I can do a quick summary of what, it seems, are the most requested features:

• Browsing through images and articles.
• LiveWriter plugin (this was massive)
• Zemanta logo at the bottom of posts being optional
• More links to different sites (apart from Wikipedia)
• Ability to prefer your old posts and blogs from the blogroll
• Spanish, German, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindii and other languages support
• Cleaner and nicer HTML we insert

Please post more feature requests as comments to this post. And please let your imagination free, don’t be afraid to dream about what Zemanta can bring.

Source: Wikipediadisclaimer: writing @1am in the middle of zemanta launch ater party surrounded by lots of orange t-shirts and quality slovenian wines and beer.

WE ARE PUBLIC!!!

for 9 hours already, and Amazon still didn-t break. go figure. Mashery works perfect also! Web site is still online. Extension still installs without a flaw.

Sounds ghastly, doesn’t it?

on a side note, wii refuses to cooperate and salsa dancers all left half an hour ago.