Zemata Offers Suggestive Blogging Tool
By Azam on September 19, 2008 
Zemanta provides a service that’s focused on helping bloggers and/or content creators make the process of creating their content simpler and a lot easier by suggesting content to use in your writing. As you write, Zemanta help you processes all of your written text (like a spell checker in a word processing program does) and suggests content to you as you write. Currently, Zemanta suggests stories/posts/research you might want to read as you compose your post, images you might want to include in the post, words you might want to hyperlink out with, and tags for search engines and other services to use to help discover your content.
Zemanta’s was founded by Boštjan Špetič and Andraž Tori, and Zemanta was the winner of last year’s seedcamp program in London. The company is based in Slovenia and has office in London. The Zemanta service for bloggers and content creators supports over 10 blogging platforms with the free plugin which allows and helps bloggers to add to their content with images, links and non copyrighted content. The service is currently as a free plugin for the following applications and services: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Live Writer, WordPress, Moveable Type, and Drupal.
Fred Wilson writes in AVC
Like many of the services we invest in, Zemanta’s initial value proposition is significant and has allowed them to reach a critical mass of bloggers. But the potential for Zemanta goes way beyond recommending links, images, and tags. If you think about it, Zemanta is “adwords for content creators”. And we are eager to see them open up this contextual recommendation engine to other web apps and services that content creators might like to add into their posts at the time of creation. The obvious things would be monetization services (affiliate links, text ads, and even graphical ads), widgets and badges, video, quotes, and music. But honestly the potential for this sort of thing is quite significant and we certainly cannot know for sure where it will ultimately lead.
Union Square Ventures joined existing UK investors Eden Ventures and The Accelerator Group (TAG) as seed investors in Zemanta. The Slovenian startup which to date has raised US$2.2 million from the three investors. Union Square is said to have invested $650,000 into the seed round.
Categories : Media & Ads, WorldTags : Andraž Tori, Boštjan Špetič, Fred Wilson, SeedCamp, Slovenia, Union Square Ventures, Zemanta