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The story behind Zemanta Chrome extension

Posted by andraz, under developers, releases, technology, zemanta on December 9th, 2009

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On Tuesday Google officially launched support for extensions in their Google Chrome browser. Zemanta released our extension simultaneously.

If you wonder how that had happened, here’s the story.

Part 1: The secret project

Nobody knows that the day after Chrome was first released on the 2nd of September 2008 Zemanta started an internal project to create a Chrome extension. Idea was simple: be the first ever to create a Chrome extension!

Read the rest at Zemanta’s Fruitblog (backstage/techblog)!