In the midst of the privacy concerns and backlash over Facebook’s Beacon service, I thought of a great idea for a Facebook application: the Amazon “Share the Love” friend referral program. (Amazon created the Share the Love program in 2002. Whenever you placed an order, Amazon offered to email your friends with a discount offer of 10% for the same items you just bought. If any of your friends used the discount, your account would also be credited with that same amount for a future purchase. You had full control over whom would receive the emails, and which products would…
My 4-year old project to keep an updated list of useful mobile websites continues to draw a decent amount of traffic (somewhere between 1000 and 2000 page views per day). I’ve also managed to reach the top search result for “mobile websites” on both Google and Live.com. (Yahoo and Ask are not keeping up…come on guys!) This week I’m migrating the list from its current home on “www.cantoni.org/palm” to a new domain “cantoni.mobi”. Tonight I have the new domain up and running and tomorrow I’ll start redirecting the old traffic. Hopefully I’ll be able to follow the standard advice for…