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Zemanta, the blogging tool which harnesses semantic technology to add relevant content to your posts, has just released a major upgrade to their service. This new release allows you specify the sources you want to see in the suggestions list that Zemanta provides. You can now incorporate your own social networks, RSS feeds, and photos from your Flickr account into your blog posts. This makes Zemanta a lot more appealing to established bloggers who are in less need of suggestions and more in need of automation.

In the past, Zemanta suggested articles from a few hundred or so “top media sources” in addition to the blogs of other Zemanta users. It also pulled publicly shared images from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, and stock photo providers like Shutterstock and Fotolia. While this behavior made Zemanta useful to bloggers who were just looking to add relevant content to their posts, established bloggers did not have as much use for it.

That’s because the challenge for established bloggers isn’t knowing where to link or what content to add, it’s the tedious process involved in having to do so. What these bloggers needed was a more personal recommendation system…one that would suggest articles and images that actually meant something to them. Now that’s exactly what Zemanta delivers thanks to the addition of four new features: My Friends, My Feeds, My Pictures, and Filtering.

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