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All over this post and any of my blogs are examples of what Apture provides. The product offered by this Bay Area company essentially satisfies point b) above by creatively and elegantly displaying these punctuation points you desire to add color to your posts. Have a YouTube video that reminds you perfectly of that prose-like sentence you just wrote? Use Apture to link to it and pop up on your site. Have that perfect image that can elicit an emotive reaction to your text? Link to it with Apture and have it too pop up on your site. The installation of Apture caused zero brain damage (installed in ~2–3 minutes) and is just as easy to use. Once a post is either published or in a pre-published state, simply select text and allow Apture to search for similar content on the internet or input specific URLs to explicitly pop up content you desire.
Apture is so similar to Lijit in our focus on creating powerful tools for our publishers which at their core both help inspire and engage readers more thoroughly with your content. Lijit helps mine and discover content, Apture helps expose and punctuate your content with it. Like peanut butter and jelly.
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This is a well crafted Article on the Use Of Facebook!
by STEFFAN ANTONAS on SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Along with the shocking number of Mafia Wars invites I get on Facebook, I continue to get daily friend requests from people I have never met or had any contact with. Almost all of these invites have a similar personalized message attached…
“We’re already friends on [some other social network]“… so let’s be Facebook Friends!”
If you’ve sent me a connection request in the past and you’ve never gotten that “Steffan has accepted your friend request” notification back, please don’t take it personally. If I don’t know you well, you’ll have to settle for Twitter, FriendFeed, my Youtube or Vimeo account, my blog or (gasp!) email…I’m keeping Facebook a friends-only affair. Here’s the logic behind my “True Friends Only” rule for Facebook…!” http://blog.steffanantonas.com/
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Will YouTube trump local news affiliates?
via Edelman Digital by Jared Hendler on 8/11/09
As featured in the NYTimes, YouTube is experimenting with a local news filter at: http://www.youtube.com/news. Viewers are able to pull local news-feeds down to a specific zip code. While much of the news-feeds are in-fact professionally produced content, many are not. Pro-sumer feeds often make up in value what they lack in content and I was surprised at how much I learned from/about my own neighborhood. Short term, this is an experiment. Long term this could easily trump local news affiliates given at how nimble this could become. Success rests on the quality, reliability and relevancy of local news sources which of course will be up to local reporting — professional and pro-sumer alike. Either way, local news affiliates from the major networks will be given a run for their money once this matures.
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Zemanta analyzes user-generated content (for example a blog post) using natural language processing and semantic search technology to suggest pictures, tags and links to related articles.
Zemanta suggests content from Wikipedia, Youtube, IMDB, Amazon.com, Crunchbase, Flickr, ITIS, Musicbrainz, Mybloglog, Myspace, NCBI, Rottentomatoes, Twitter, Facebook, Snooth and Wikinvest, as well as the blogs of other Zemanta users.
Zemanta’s understanding of the content (e.g. whether “Apple” refers to a fruit or a company) can be embedded into the content using Common Tag for semantic tagging.
Originally released for use by bloggers, Zemanta is available as a Firefox and Internet Explorer extension and plugins for Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, Ning, MySpace, LiveJournal, MovableType, Tumblr, Drupal and Joomla. It is now also available for use with web-based email systems like Gmail and Yahoo mail[2], and an Outlook add-in is in development.
Zemanta is server based software, so the server does all the hard work and the plugins simply communicate with the server to retrieve suggestions.
Other companies have used Zemanta’s API to add content suggestion to their products, for example hover.in, Triond, RetailFans and Bukisa.
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