The UnSub

Amazon has just launched Amazon Widgets for their associates. Click here to see all of these widgets in action. Recently I wrote about BlogRush, which is coincidentally (or maybe not) a widget based system. Comparing the two companies, I feel Amazon’s array of widgets is really impressive.

Adding these widgets was really a breeze with the Ajax powered builder tools! So far I have only added a “product cloud” as you can see on the side bar.

Among all the widgets, “Context links” widget is most interesting as it will automatically identify and link contextually relevant phrases within your content to Amazon products.

A cool idea to monetize for bloggers and it is almost effortless to put a piece of javascript code near the end of my template just before </body> tag. The big winner will be Amazon as she taps into the masses of blogs out in the wild.

Will spend some time exploring the other widgets…

For those who are not familiar with the idea of a cloud. The idea is that certain categories/tags that have more entries would appear bigger in font size, somewhat mimicking a real cloud that has big and small puffs

Did some search on Wordpress Category cloud. There were a few ways to do it, some folks did their own code, some plug-ins that required other plug-ins.

Finally I settled on http://www.mapelli.info/web20/category-cloud-10. The setup was pretty easy. At least now the Categories section is more compact compared to a long list that took up space!