Written by amedeo on October 11th, 2007
BigTribe offers useful, embeddable, transaction-enabled map-ads that give you a cut of the revenue earned when people use the map-ads to make, for example, reservations at a restaurant.
If you don’t like sharing, do it all yourself with this Google Maps and Spreadsheets tool found, with instructions, at MindyMcAdams.com. Local businesses may be interested in buying [...]
Written by amedeo on October 6th, 2007
Action to take with this tool:
Create a cliq for your local bloggers;
Prominently post the widget on your news site.
The widget is amazingly clever because it gives consumers a useful tool that, in order to function well, requires consumers to:
Classify their interests;
Aggregate an audience around that interest;
Verify the quality of their network’s members;
Create a [...]
Written by amedeo on October 2nd, 2007
BritePic enables the addition of ads and embeddability to your photos. If the process could be automated, it might be a reasonable way to turn your photos into individual, embeddable business units.
Feel free to embed my example in your site. Continue reading to see it.
britepic_id=”443538″; britepic_src=”http://newsroomnext.com/images/adbrite/bella.jpg”; britepic_keywords=”dog,%20bella,%20newsroomnext,%20husky,%20journalism,%20embeddable,%20photo,%20ads”; britepic_show_ads=1; britepic_show_menu=1; [...]
Written by amedeo on October 1st, 2007
Kaltura.com allows multiple users to produce a video and publish the results.
Start an account, upload assets and see how your customers remix your news. Attach ads to the remixed results and give your customers a cut of the revenue.
Why: Community interaction; revenue; gives customers what they want, which is information their way; produces new, [...]
Written by amedeo on September 23rd, 2007
Voxant turns each piece of content into an individual money-making unit that is distributed by anyone with a Web site.
Individual distributors using the Flash package of a story and an ad get a cut of revenue made from activity associated with their display of the content.
It seems content producers get paid as well, but [...]
Written by amedeo on September 22nd, 2007
Google Custom Search Engine can make a search engine that scours your choice of Web sites and displays the results on your site.
Here’s one by yours truly that searches the sites of New Mexico bloggers.
Make other custom search engines that encompass:
Web sites of government officials and candidates for office;
Every news outlet in your state;
Web sites [...]
Written by amedeo on September 20th, 2007
SpringWidgets offers an easily modified, shared and embedded tool that displays RSS feeds on any Web site.
Continue after the break to see an example of the widget.