But the new Source Code Blowout has three items that I know will work very well in some of my established websites, so I’m blowing the $200 bucks for the lot.

I think I’ll add a slightly revised RSS submitter as a bonus to Conversionary and my new software which will launch in beta mode in two weeks, and add the Podcasting items to two of my sites that are related to that topic to see how they fare. I have no ideas or plans for the rest, and I’m open to any ideas or partnerships, if you’ve got an spark of an idea.

It’s not something I’d normally do, but my Paypal account is flush with cash even after paying affiliates today, so, what the heck.

From Google Video comes this interesting clip on a new way to get your message across to busy commuters during rush hour… only in Chicago for now.

Check it out at:
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/

The slidey bar at the top of the results can let you focus your search on research or shopping, depending what you are searching for.

But if this sort of customization becomes the norm, what will it do to SEO?

A quick way to search multiple article directory sites with one click — check out this search for “Public Domain“, or search for your own niche terms once you get there.

Powered by Rollyo — which stands for ‘Roll Your Own’. The site describes itself like this:

Rollyo puts the power of Yahoo! Search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines - with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and we’ll create a custom search engine for you.

Try it out for yourself. It is very cool.

A few months ago I took ArticleBot out for a test drive, and got a kick out of the way it could be used to rewrite articles into totally unique creations by replacing words and phrases with lists of synonyms and similar phrases.

I never did get it to work well with my Windows machine, so I cancelled my subscription to the service after a month or so.

Now, I’ve seen a similar, web based program that will let you enter alternate words for each word in a sentence or paragraph to create unique paragraphs.

Paragraph Builder is by no means as robust or complete as ArticleBot, but it does demonstrate that the basic functionality is not that hard to reproduce.

Which, incidentally, is what I’d recommend. Rather than buying Para Builder for $100, I’d guess that it wouldn’t cost you much more than 100-150 dollars to have a Rent-A-Coder create something specifically to YOUR specifications that will work better for you than any “for the IM masses” tool would.