Zemanta WordPress Plug-In

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I discovered the Zemanta WordPress plug-in courtesy of Fred Wilson’s blog a few days ago. I’m giving it a test run right now and it appears that I need to write a decent amount of copy before it starts making suggestions. So, here’s one application of Zemanta that could be interesting for corporations. Let’s say that you have a 10,000 or more person enterprise who are each blogging or at least writing about their experiences, challenges, day-to-day activities, etc.. If Zemanta is able to pull from this virtual ‘tag cloud‘ of constantly updated information, then potentially that organization has the opportunity to cross-collaborate with disparate colleagues and peers based on what Zemanta ‘discovers’ for him or her. Think of it as Wisdom of Crowds meets bug-tracking software. Microsoft, IBM, and any other bloated enterprise software company could pay big bucks to buy Zemanta and have it deployed as a service with its enterprise software deployments to empower knowledge workers who work at different companies to help each other solve their problems.