links for 2008-05-09

New Amazon Affiliate MP3 Widget May 8th, 2008 · Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail. The Amazon.com affiliate program has a new MP3 widget, to be released in

More Details About Facebook’s Profile Redesign Mark Hendrickson 24 comments » Facebook has posted more details about the upcoming redesign of user profiles, which were supposed to launch early April but are apparently now close at hand. Profiles will b

Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers Erick Schonfeld 66 comments » You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who

Social media has simplified the art of the soapbox shout. Information is shared with the masses now using easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools and is recorded and cached for infinity. A shout out loud in social media has no geographic boundaries and is not time-limi

New Search Engine Targets Online Media Planners by Les Luchter, Monday, May 5, 2008 7:00 AM ET headshot Yureekah, described as the first search engine for “real time competitive analysis of online advertising,” launched in alpha mode this week.

Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration by Bill Ives May 5, 2008 at 7:12 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Last week I had an interesting conversation with Eric Schurr, VP of Marketing and Direct sales at Awareness. We discussed their re

Virtual Popularity Isn’t Cool–It’s Pathetic If you’re staying up late “poking” other guys on social-networking sites and trying to collect online friends, it’s time to reevaluate.

About Psychology of Facebook This is the channel for BJ Fogg’s class at Stanford about the Psychology of Facebook. We meet each Thursday at 1:30. The broadcast will start a bit later than that.

Adding geo-tagged or otherwise location-oriented photos to Google Maps has been an option for some time under the “My Maps” tab — which also allows you to do things like calculate distances between two points, or see the weather for a specific locat

The Poll market is a very coveted Widget market, and there are many that want to go after Polldaddy. Polldaddy has taken lots of measures to retain their lead in polls and have managed to retain it. But new players and evolved players in the market are al