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Using Zemanta with any blogging platform

Posted by jure, under tutorial on August 18th, 2009

At the moment Zemanta Browser extension natively supports: Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType, Drupal, Ning, Tumblr, MySpace, dotClear, Gmail and Y!Mail (and Joomla via 3rd party plugin). But what if you’re blogging on a platform that we don’t directly support?

There are a number of approaches that you can take:

Use Zemanta plugin for Windows Live Writer

WLW is a very good and popular blogging application. We have a plugin for it, so you can just use WLW to publish your blog posts. It supports essentially all blogging platforms that support remote publishing.

Use ScribeFire Firefox extension

ScribeFire is a blog publishing extension that is integrated directly into your Firefox. Same as with WLW, it uses XML-RPC to publish to your blog. It supports Zemanta out of the box, so there is no need to install or configure anything else.

Post to your blog from GMail or Y!Mail

You can also use our mail integration to draft your blog post, enhance it and just publish it via email. This is how some bloggers are using Zemanta to publish to Posterous.

Let your blog provider know you want Zemanta

We have a very easy developer API that allows any blogging provider to quickly integrate Zemanta into their offering, if they wish to. Let them know that you want it and we’ll do our best to help them bring it to your favorite dashboard.