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As Amazon S3 become more and more popular, more and more products are coming out to help you take advantage of it. EZ s3 is great if you are looking for easy of use and some stats.
S3 Media Player came along and has great tools (like a redirect). You have to sign up for Mike Stewart’s two buck themes to get it (which you can cancel), but it has some great player to customize your player. The one thing I wish it didn’t (as I own it) is it renames the files as you upload them. It’s $147, and there is a free demo.
A new player is Easy Video Player which is $127 and has all the features of S3 Media player, and has the ability to add sign up forms, buttons, as well as redirects. Also there is no monthly subscription needed.
The one thing that I’m not crazy about is instead of being something yo run from your desktop, this is a web based application. As it is posting videos to my Amazon account, I’m going to have to input my profile information (including password), so for me that is a pretty big negative.
The reason the price is so low is much like S3 Media Player, they will want you to sign up for a membership (optional ) in their mastermind group. So the Easy Video Player is a leader product. They also state that eventually this product will go up to $127 a month.
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Privacy Policy Generator
http://www.dmaresponsibility.org/PPG/
On this page, Webmasters and administrators can complete a questionnaire (basing their answers on their site information policies) and create a privacy policy statement to be posted on their own Web page. This tool has been developed to help marketers create policies that are consistent with The DMA’s Privacy Principles for Online Marketing.
KompoZer Tutorial Videos
I’ve never heard of Kompozer, but it appears to be a very powerful free open source website creation tool. It evens has the ability to make pages using CSS. While free is always welcome, who wants to go through the learning curve (especially for software so powerful). Enter Kompozer tutorials. These videos are from Jay Jennings (regular listeners and readers know I’m a big Jay Jennings Fan), and once again Jay has put out a great product that delivers high quality without requiring you to break the piggy bank. The whole set of videos is 20 bucks. Sure beats reading an outdated book. Check it out at kompozervideos.com
Contest Machine
ContestMachine is geared to making contests and giveaways easy. The tool is like survey monkey in that we let you collect responses. But that’s just the beginning. When your giveaway ends, contest creator allows you to pick as many winners for you as prizes, at the push of a button. It automatically sends the winners emails asking to verify their entries and supply their mailing addresses, and then lets you know if a winner hasn’t responded so you can pick another. Contest creator gives you a widget to embed in your website, and a hosted page you can link to. It manages the tedium or organizing a contest so you can run them without issue. When I contacted the company they stated, “Many of our users have received many more entries and experienced much less headache by using our system. We also do things like allow only one entry per user — optimizations that aren’t possible with comment systems on blogs (what most of our customers used before switching to us).”
It sounds cool and there is a free version. This version does not allow you to export the entries or have access to emails (you can also only have two contests per month). The next level is 9 bucks a month that allows 10 contests a month (and the ability to use it to grow your email list). You can also sign up for a yearly payment option which gives you 50 contests per month with unlimited submissions.
I’m playing with the software so here is my contest. Check it out at contestmachine.com
