Beta Testing Amazon Clickriver

I got my invite to beta test Clickriver today. Yippie. I already set up my account, so lets see how long it takes Amazon to start showing my ads for things like my name and search engine optimization.

Long Tail PR

In his post, "Long Tail PR: how to do publicity without a press release (or the press)," Chris Anderson asks "But what of the Long Tail of media--all those new influentials, from the micromedia of Techcrunch and Gizmodo to individual bloggers?

Wikio Receives $5.3 Million In Funding

Wikio, which is basically a European version of Digg (more on that later), just received a considerable amount of funding to continue its growth. Reports indicate that Lightspeed Venture Partners and Gemini Israel Funds have endowed the company with $5.3 million.

Simply Hired Links Blogs To Jobs

The release of the Job-a-matic tool will give bloggers and website publishers the option to add job listings to their sites, and to profit from them too.

Google Groups Goes Socializing

If your invitation to Google's after-hours party at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos somehow got lost in the mail, you can use that time to explore the newly updated Google Groups service.