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As part of our effort to help VideoSift survive and thrive, we've created a way for people to link to Amazon items that are related to a particular post.
Use it when there is something that you'd like to recommend to other Sifters- music, movies, books or other products.
It works like this- find an Amazon product that relates to a particular video post and invoke it in a VideoSift comment thusly (for example):
*amazon=http://www.amazon.com/Sparrow-Mary-Doria-Russell/dp/0449912558
Amazon makes pretty ugly URLs, but don't worry - your invocation comment will be whisked away to the top of the post and converted to a thumbnail and link for the particular product.
VideoSift gets a little dosh for every purchase made through the link - so it's a great way to support the community and possibly find something good. You can see what it looks like on this blog post here.
Some other things to note:
- The *amazon invocation is available from the rank of silver star.
- multiple *amazon invocations may be used on a single post.
- *amazon works on video, sift talk, poll, and blog posts
- make sure that the Amazon link is related to either the post topic or a discussion that's happening in the post
- don't put anything else in the comment, or it won't work
- do not assign any product that is inappropriate for the post or your *amazon privileges may be revoked
[EDIT]
We just added a new post listing of any type of post that has any Amazon items associated with it. You can find it here: http://amazon.videosift.com We figured some people might be interested in seeing what items have been associated with what posts.
Use it when there is something that you'd like to recommend to other Sifters- music, movies, books or other products.
It works like this- find an Amazon product that relates to a particular video post and invoke it in a VideoSift comment thusly (for example):
*amazon=http://www.amazon.com/Sparrow-Mary-Doria-Russell/dp/0449912558
Amazon makes pretty ugly URLs, but don't worry - your invocation comment will be whisked away to the top of the post and converted to a thumbnail and link for the particular product.
VideoSift gets a little dosh for every purchase made through the link - so it's a great way to support the community and possibly find something good. You can see what it looks like on this blog post here.
Some other things to note:
- The *amazon invocation is available from the rank of silver star.
- multiple *amazon invocations may be used on a single post.
- *amazon works on video, sift talk, poll, and blog posts
- make sure that the Amazon link is related to either the post topic or a discussion that's happening in the post
- don't put anything else in the comment, or it won't work
- do not assign any product that is inappropriate for the post or your *amazon privileges may be revoked
[EDIT]
We just added a new post listing of any type of post that has any Amazon items associated with it. You can find it here: http://amazon.videosift.com We figured some people might be interested in seeing what items have been associated with what posts.
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