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Zemanta for Email – But Why?

By on February 5, 2009

I really do like Zemanta the discovery and recommendation engine.  It’s my favorite blogging plug-in, and I am so hooked on it that I even declared I’d rather pay for it than lose it, despite the sometimes funny pics.

Today Zemanta released several new features – some I just love, others leave me scratching my head.

The ones I love:

  • Epanding the discovery engine which from now on can recommend contextually relevant video, audio, Google Maps and other rich objects.
  • Content verticals for books, music, technology, green, health, travel, gaming, shopping and wine. This will no doubt enhance the recommendations (wonder if it means I will no longer get the above pic for this tech-business blog?).

Now, about that head-scratching: Zemanta now works with Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Here’s a summary video:

Zemanta on Gmail from zemanta on Vimeo.

Essentially the same functionality I came to love with blogs, but now available while composing email. But why would I do that?  Unlike blogging, where I welcome additional information, illustration, even tips, when I send an email, I want to be concise, to the point, and pretty much know what  I have to say myself.  In fact  I would love to cut down on email, so anything that may be of public interest goes on the blog, or Twitter, or …

But that’s just me, and we all have different usage patterns – do you find Zemanta for Email useful?

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12 responses to “Zemanta for Email – But Why?”

  1. Andraz Tori
    Andraz Tori February 5, 2009 at 10:05 am |

    Try sending mail to your wife. :)

    bye
    Andraz Tori, Zemanta

  2. Krishnan Subramanian
    Krishnan Subramanian February 5, 2009 at 11:10 am |

    Yeah Zoli. It’s DUMB. Already, we have to deal with all those forwarded mails and now we have to deal with this. Plus, I receive only text based mails and I also receive my mails in my mobile. This is going to friggin’ mess it up big time. If the spammers come to know that they have a backdoor approach to push pictures, we are screwed. It is FAIL.

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  9. Patricia
    Patricia February 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm |

    Could be a useful feature for people who post to their blogs via email or can post to their newsletter accounts via email?

  10. Zoli Erdos
    Zoli Erdos February 23, 2009 at 6:31 pm |

    Yes, I think that’s a very possible use case.

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