This week YouTube launched a call-to-action feature for its non-profit partners, allowing them to include in-video clickable ads leading to their web sites. Apparently they are quite effective, because in one day, one of the partners raised $10,000 using one.
Of course it probably helps that the video was featured on YouTube's home page. The video can be seen here:
Forestle is a search engine with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. It was built on Google Custom Search, but Google revoked the site's search functionality claiming that Forestle offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links," which is not compliant with Google's policies.
Google announced today that starting at the beginning of March, non-profit organizations who use Google Checkout will be subject to the standard fee structure. Previously, they have been able to use the service free of charge.
Bloggers should add speaking engagements to their already growing repetoire of skills....