lod2 plenary meeting 2011: zemanta – partner introduction

ZEMANTA

LOD2 meeting @ Leuven, Belgium

September 19, 2011

The story of

Zemanta begins

Ljubljana | Slovenia

Mastermind(s)

The idea

So simple and so cool

But what if…

And the winner is…

The Evil Plan

The Secretary

Dude, where‘s my Zemanta?

Live demo

Delivery of goodies

Browser extensions Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer @ sites: wordpress.com, blogger.com, TypePad, Drupal, Tumblr…

Plug-ins

Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal Gmail, Yahoo! mail Windows Live writer

API

The assimilated

Open is the new black

IMDB, last.fm, Wikipedia, Freebase

Amazon, Snooth, stock tickers

CrunchBase

The masses

Articles from blogs & big media players (CNN, BBC, Reuters, ...)

My precious

API http://developer.zemanta.com

The magic

Plain text Structured information

What do you get? Tags, images, in-text links, related links, categorization

Recap on Zemanta

Slovenian company, established 2007

HQ @ Ljubljana & New York

Seedcamp winners

Investment from Eden, TAG, Union Square Ventures

Semantics, triples, machine learning

Zemanta vs Others

Yet another commercial NLP company? Not really.

Cross-domain

Working on ‚Web English‘

We deliver value to the writers. We blog.

Back to the Future @ LOD2

Discovering entities @ blogs

Zemanta‘s recommender engine 2.0

Integration of LOD datasets?

Improved quality of Z engine?

Cleansing + Crowdsourcing = #win

Google Refine + Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The Z-team @ LOD2

Mastermind Andraž Tori andraz@zemanta.com Twitter: @andraz

Sidekick

Dr Mateja Verlič mateja.verlic@zemanta.com Twitter: @sparkica

Just like Batman and Robin, but different

But seriously…

You might think this presentation is (a bit) funny, but we are dead serious when it comes to business.

In case of emergency