YouTube to Share Revenue with Creators

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said today his company (now owned by Google) “is going to move in [the] direction” of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

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ChoiceBot Launches Product Search and Selection Tool for e-retailers

Ottawa, Canada based ChoiceBot, Inc today announced the launch of a new product search and selection tool for online merchants.

“Early in our R&D efforts, we identified more than twenty major complaints that most consumers voiced concerning current product search and selection tools,” said ChoiceBot founder and CEO Nick Desbarats. “Everything from ‘Why can’t I say that I don’t like a feature without saying that it’s unacceptable?’ to ‘Even though all the feature data is there, there’s no way I can take it all into consideration when making a purchase decision.’ Based on this set of problems, we set out to design a fundamentally new type of product search and evaluation system –a system that thinks more like a person, and less like a database.”

ChoiceBot for e-Retail Sites enables consumers to express how happy or unhappy specific product features would make them (rather than simply what their minimum feature requirements are), using ChoiceBot’s product search interface. The company’s breakthrough ChoiceBot Ranking Engine then ranks products by how well they met the consumer’s overall needs, all things considered — including price. Regardless of how many search results were returned, the consumer need only focus on the top-ranked three or four products, knowing that they won’t find any better choices further down the list.
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Amapedia — Amazon to take on Wikipedia

In it’s bid to go web 2.0,Top internet retailer Amazon.com launches amapedia - a wiki for all products on amazon where users can write facts about products and tag them.

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LinkShare Releases New Enhancements

New York City based Linkshare Corporation, one of the first and largest affiliate networks, has announced a series of enhancements to it’s affiliate network.

These include,
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Datafeedfile.com - servers stolen and data lost.

“Our office was burglarized, some server stolen and some data lost” Says Andrew Nurcahya of Data Feed File -

a datafeed solution provider similar to GoldenCAN that helps affiliates easily integrate and update merchant product inventory on their websites.

At approximately 4:30am 1/22/07 Monday, Andrew received several text messages of multiple servers being down. He also received a phone call 10 minutes later from the alarm company.
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Overstock auctions shutting down affiliate program

Only days after the recent changes in management and removal of various features from their auctions section, Overstock sent out a newsletter today to all affiliates about the closure of their auctions affiliate program that used to pay 3% on every sold auction.

The program will stop functioning starting the 31st of January. Affiliates will be paid for auction commissions generated through links based on the terms of the Auctions Affiliate Agreement, plus any earned outstanding payments.

This, of course, does not affect the overstock.com affiliate program which continues to be immensely popular among thousands of affiliates.

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Beyond Google: Social Media Engines First, Other Search Engines Second

Danny Sullivan explains why the “second tier” search engines now comprise the likes of Digg, Delicious, Reddit and Stumbleupon. Yahoo, MSN, and Ask are sending less and less traffic and fading away, while webmasters are increasingly paying attention to leveraging the social networks as traffic sources. Both the stats and everyday users agree!

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Google Drops BETA from Google Groups

Google Groups is no longer in beta and they have added quite a few new features.

Now you can customize the look of your group, create and edit web pages, upload and share files (including photos), view member profiles and for your discussions, there’s no need to struggle to follow interrupted conversations - Google Groups now includes the same style of organization as Gmail.

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Odiogo - lets you type your podcasts.

Odiogo™ recently announced the launch of a brand new Web 2.0 application that enables bloggers to create new audio media in a snap. Blog entries are converted on the fly into podcastable audio files ready to download.

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Free Whitepaper out - Blogging for retailers

Written by experienced corporate blogger and podcaster, Dave Olson, “Blogging for Retailers” puts forth five “Critical Success Factors” to ensure blogging turns into a beneficial campaign for resource and time-constrained retailers.

According to Olson, “Blogs and Web 2.0 tools in general are about creating and sharing compelling content. Blogs provide a uniquely affordable opportunity for retailers to cultivate conversations with passionate customers. This paper aims to assist savvy retailers in reaping the significant rewards gained from having conversations with their customers.”

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