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Context Links - AdSense for Amazon.com Affiliates

Last week, Amazon.com began beta testing of a new services called Context Links.
Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to your website and monetize your content. Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from [...]


O’Reilly Predicts the Future of Web 2.0

This hilarious piece by Nat Torkington over at O’Reilly Radar predicts the Future of Web 2.0 and the rise of Web 3.0.
2008: Firefox 3.14159 ships (those geeks at Mozilla just won’t be able to help themselves, and the resulting flamewar and developer resignations over whether to call it “PiFox” or not will lead [...]


Now twittering from my blog posts

As a follow up to yesterday’s post about Twitter, I just installed Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress.


Twitter - Universal Content Delivery System?

I started playing with twitter today. Anyone know why twitter makes a call to www.plaxo.com during the registration process?
Once you get past the initial overwhelming “this has got to be a fad” feeling, it seems that there is great potential for twitter alerts to deliver all sorts of information - news headlines, weather, flight [...]


Google + Environment = Greensear.ch

Corey Szopinski emailed me today to tell me about a new project his company just launched - Greensearch. Its a Google Custom Search that donates proceeds from Adsense revenues to environmental causes.
Same search results as Google, but the revenue generated by advertising is donated to national environmental non-profits. The more people that use it, [...]