PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT | JUNE 2009


Announcing the Bento Box and a New Deep Linking Browser Tool

by Ian Rosenwach, Product Manager

 I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to LinkShare's Bento Box. It is a place where you'll find all our early-stage features and 3rd party plug-ins. Today you'll find our WordPress plug-ins as well as a Mac Widget there, and also links to some Developers making good use of LinkShare Web Services. We'll keep adding goodies to the Bento Box - so stay tuned!

The newest addition to the Bento Box is the US version of our Deep Linking LinkGenerator Bookmarklet. We've heard from Publishers that they'd like to generate a deep link with the click of a button, without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard. Our LinkGenerator Bookmarklet in the UK does just that, and we've gotten quite a bit of positive feedback on it.

Here's a demo of the UK LinkGenerator Bookmarklet:

Now, we're pleased to announce a Deep Linking LinkGenerator Bookmarklet in the US as well.

With this tool, Publishers enter their Web Services Token and then click-and-drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar (or right click in IE). Then, when they navigate to a page on your site they'd like to create a deep link to, hit the LinkGenerator button and a window will come up with a Deep Link to that page.

What can you do to be included?

  1. Provide a Merchandiser Product File
  2. Enable your program for Deep Linking

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