Launching in Alpha today is Zemanta, the European startup which has developed a facility for Wordpress blogs to suggest contextually relevant links, pictures, related content and tags using an internally developed semantic analysis engine.

Отличный стартап, но пока непонятно какому количеству людей он может понадобится. Я некоторое время назад реализовал, по всей видимости, более примитивную форму того же самого решения - при создании публикации в блоге она забиралась из RSS в различные сервисы типа Yahoo Pipes, после чего анализировалась по тегам и ключевым словам, и на нее собирались закладки из del.icio.us, фотки из flickr, статьи по тегам из блогов и т.д. Все это всасывалось обратно в WordPress, дробилось по нужным категориям, и либо публиковалось сразу, либо оставалось в черновиках для доработки. Такое издательство одного человека. Кому нужно? Суровым блоггерам, плавно перерастающим в маленькое, но очень гордое СМИ. Кого бы не хотелось увидеть в рядах пользователей? СЕОшников всех мастей.

Это не только отличный концептуальный пост, но и замечательная форма подачи. :)

The Twitter Equilibrium: ”

…This equilibrium is the state when Twitter is providing you with precisely the right frequency and quality of content that you expect. It’s totally arbitrary and completely personal while also being essential to preventing Twitter from becoming another useless, annoying social networking tool that you maintain out of a weak sense of loyalty to people you don’t actually know.

For me, I’ve achieved a Twitter equilibrium following roughly 100 people. For whatever reason, at around 100 folks, I’m finding a pleasant flow of new, interesting content whenever I glance over at Twitterrific. I’ve been refining this number since I started using Twitter and, during that time, I’ve found a couple of essential information management rules:

Rule #1: Remove noisy people. Even if you love them. Probably the easiest way to get turned off Twitter is following someone who is filling Twitter with useless noise. This is especially common with newcomers who are still figuring out that Twitter is the king of casual information, so I cut new people some slack. If the problem persists, they’re out. Good friends who I talk with daily get noisy and get removed, too, but, yeah, I eventually end up following them again.

Rule #2: Follow Rands’ First Law of Information Management. Which reads: ‘For each new piece of information you track, there is an equally old and useless piece of information you must throw away.’ If you continue to follow new people, eventually they’re going to overwhelm you with their casual information flood, so you must get in the habit of removing a person for each new person that you follow. Incidentally, the first law tastes great with RSS feeds as well.

(Via Rands In Repose.)

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