Build Amazon Widgets for Writers, Readers

If you're an Amazon Associate, marvelous new tools are at your bidding for spicing up your blog and other web pages. They're called "Amazon Widgets" (catchy, no?), javascripts that essentially duplicate all the types of links you could build in the past (and more). Some of them appear to be animated, and they're interactive. Unfortunately I can't use javascript inside a post, so I've had to do a screen capture of the first page of my Wish List widget:

Read all about it at the widget page in Associates Central. They offer gizzies for My Favorites and Unbox Videos, too, as well as the results of searches and "product clouds". Amazon offers to automatically install the widget into your blog (even giving you a choice of blogging software used), but I didn't trust this feature. No foolin' around with this lady's template!