We get letters ... lots and lots of letters.
There are so many new websites and applications launching every day - and I get media releases for a number of them. I've been saving them up to blog about, so, apologies for the linkesque post, but I wanted to mention these:
Yooba ... the world of Internet marketing will never be the same. I'm not 100% what this is. Some kind of marketing service to make online rich-media campaigns easier. Could be a hosted service; could be a boxed product. Beta is launching sometime this Spring. The teasers have some fantastic animation. My fav is the second one - a weird mix of Stitch (from Lilo and Stitch) and Galadriel (from LOTR). They are located in the UK and their blog has some interesting UK and European internet usage data.
Triggit ... web monetization made simple. Triggit is this cool little browser bit that lets you put in affiliate links, flickr pictures or YouTube videos just by dragging and dropping. No backend coding required. It's pretty wild. There are some videos on the site that explain it. It all seems to happen post-publishing and I'm not sure if feeds are impacted/supported (I'm guessing they aren't). It's a bit of a change to the usual blog writing model if you're used to delivering to a feed-based audience, but great for serendipitous traffic from search, I think. Nice tool to empower individuals running web-based affiliate businesses or the casual blogger. I added a couple of links, photo and video to this post. All the relevant code seems to be on their server. It's cool and creepy at the same time :)
Yieldy ... A Simple Ad Network Allowing Any Site to Earn Revenue Immediately. Super easy to use. Great for small publishers who, for some reason, don't want to use AdSense. I wish you could pick the types of ads (content, not size) that appeared. From the makers of Texty .. a content management tool.
Poynt ... local search via IM. This is pretty cool. Using MSN Messenger or AIM, you set your location and can search the yellow pages or movie listings. The movie listings are really great. It says you can watch trailers but I haven't figured that out yet - maybe because I'm on a Mac? In any case, services like Poynt prove that hyperlocal is the direction for cool new toys to take. If I had AIM or MSN on my mobile, presumably you could do a search from your mobile device. Hmm .. wonder about GPS encoding - is Poynt smart enough to know where I am? Also, what's the evolution/business model? I'm assuming paid listings at some point (ha, ha .. POINT). Oh, Poynt is Canadian - out of Calgary via Multiplied Media.
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