Zemanta, using shared data

I just downloaded the Zemanta plugin for Firefox. This plugin enables you to add  pictures, tags, links and more to your e-mails and blog postings. All suggestions by Zemanta are related to the content you are writing.

Intergration in WordPress and Gmail

I just tested the Zemanta plugin in my GMail and WordPress blog. And it works perfectly. After typing some words Zemanta gives already suggestions for links and keywords. With one click it is possible to add a map, wikipedia-link or Image. And the best thing: because it integrates nicely with the interface, it’s becoming a natural extension of your web application.

Accurate

The suggestions are quite accurate and gathered from more than 10,000 News Sources, Connecting 100 Million Content Objects. By registering you are able to add your own sources like your favorite blogs, feeds and pages.

Time-saver

Zemanta is definitely worth trying. I’ll try to use it a bit for this blog, but wont use it in my mail. I just do not like mails stuffed with images and links. But it saves a lot of time searching the net for images and links that I can include.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Testing Zemanta (blogging.robertosblogs.net)
• Zemanta – Great Blogging Tool (thetechscoop.net)
• Spice Up Your Blogging with Zemanta (socializedsoftware.com)

Back to myself: Data, logic and Visualisation

Since the use of the Multitier Architecture; data,logic and visualization are different worlds. The separation of these elements in software architecture made technologies like cloud computing and API‘s possible.

Since my work as a developer on one side and a User Experience Designer on the other, I stand right in the middle of these elements. How to structure data (and build Databases from it), how to alter the data to useful information and to visualize it that people understand the data.

I blogged mostly on news that I’m interested in and stuff I found on the net. Since I wrote my article about the “contribution theory” I asked myself the question: What can I contribute to the web?

I am not a writer; my English is not perfect and really have no different opinion on the news that I want to defend. I’m specialized in data, logic and visualization, this is what I do, this is my core business.

So what can you expect? Some examples

• Concept and examples to structure data in the IA and technical view. I believe that a successful data structure is the center of a (web)application.
• How to get data from other sources and combine them to new useful data
• ways to visualize data in maps, text, images and video.
• User interfaces and UI frameworks
• The link between UXD/IA, Developers and Designers.

By working between the different worlds of development, UXD and design I believe that we only can be successful if we understand each other and speak the same language.