A quick note to let you know about last night’s launch of Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress, a useful plugin for WordPress bloggers that harnesses contextual relevance technology from Y! Search to find and recommend images and infographics for your blog post while you’re blogging.
As I type, the plugin suggests appropriate shortcuts — maps, finance charts, Creative Commons-licensed Flickr photos , and more — associated with the words I’m typing. At any point, I can review and select the shortcuts I want to use within my post. I can decide where and how to position the automagically generated visual content. The shortcut can then be embedded within the body of the post, or it can be displayed on hover over the shortcut link.
You can read more about it around Yahoo! and out on the web or watch a screencast tutorial.
Over on Yodel Anecdotal, Jeremy Zawodny notes how it locates Zanzibar .
by EsthrOn the Y! Search Blog, Ariel Seidman and Luke Wroblewski use the Austin City Limits festival for their example.
John Battelle gives it a nod (as noted by Bradley Horowitz), even though he uses Six Apart’s blogging platform. Wired’s compiler blog likes the Flickr photo functionality.
A special shout-out to Alex King and the web development crew at Crowd Favorite, who built the plugin in collaboration with the Yahoo! Shortcuts team. The plugin is free and the source code is available under the BSD license. Details here.
Plus, if you’re among If you’re one of the first 500 bloggers to take Yahoo! Shortcuts for a spin on your own blog, you’re eligible for a cool free “Pimp my blog” t-shirt.
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