Bloggers Digest 2/8/2008

We're turning things up a notch with the now traditional Friday link roundup. Each Friday post will kick off with a funny or remarkable video - and I need your suggestions. Please email me at linda.bustos@elasticpath.com with your suggestions during the week if your suggestion is chosen, we'll post the video and credit you for the suggestion with a link back to your site!

Keep in mind we like clean videos that are related to ecommerce, marketing, the Internet, social media, advertising, products etc. Stuff we cover here on the blog. Like this, for example:

Via What's Next Blog

Okay, on with the links:

• 2 entries this week from Alexis Brion's DesignVsArt blog - Designing To Make Users Feel Safer and Good Bread Crumbs, Bad Bread Crumbs.

• Scott Hurff explains Product Ads, Amazon's new CPC advertising model for merchants.

• Portent's Ian Lurie says "If you ask {IT} to become the online arm of the marketing department, you deserve the result: Delays, frustration and poor internet marketing" in his post called IT Department Wrecking Your Internet Marketing? It's Your Fault.

• BetterRetail noticed Orvis doing something cool, a "shop by room" feature. Check it out.

• Bryan Eisenberg gives his 2 cents on the latest list of top converting retail sites for January.

• Curious who the top 50 UK online retailers are according to Hitwise?