Last week, MIT Advertising Lab shared some stats on their Amazon Associate performance. Their blog features three hand-picked books every few weeks at the top of the site.

Many people use the Amazon Associate program and insert the recommended book widget into their blog sidebar. But you don’t hear much about how they’re converting, most likely because the majority of small sites that feature them don’t convert at all.

MIT is different. By displaying the books like they’re a part of the site and making them stand out, since November 2006, they’ve sold 116 books through their site. Yes, 116 books!

Even though Amazon only pays up to 8.5% of the book’s price, the amount that MIT has converted is still very impressive.

If you currently use Amazon’s affiliate program or have considered it, take a look at AdLab first and think of unique ways you can make relevant books stand out on your site.

And the answer lies right here… in the unedited footage of The Daily Show.

Bill Gates is no Steve Jobs when it comes to promoting and public speaking, but he really is more likable. Check out Bill Gates on The Daily Show promoting Windows Vista. And jet packs. And robots.

If ever there were a year to have a bit of faith in Hollywood, this could be it. Some of them are flashbacks from our childhood, others sequels, trequels, and quadrequels (?!?). Whatever they are, they’re sure as hell to collectively bring in several billion bucks when all is said and done.

Without further ado, here are 10 of the biggest movies of 2007, in no specific order. (RSS readers, visit YGG to see all the trailers on one page)

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You’ve probably seen the Feeds page on YGG. The goal of that section was to create a ranking system for entrepreneurial blogs and help some lesser known blogs get a bit of publicity and linkage. We integrated an aggregator so you could see a few posts from the top 10 of 20 blogs. To be honest, the aggregator was quite slow and buggy at times.

So I just made the call to scrap the app and make it a simple list ranking YGG’s Top 20 Entrepreneur Blogs based upon Technorati and Alexa’s rankings.

Now, we need more feeds to track. There are tons of entrepreneurs that visit or contribute to YGG. Many of them have their own entrepreneurial blogs, as you most likely do. So send us a link to your blog or post it in the comments. If you don’t have one, send us a link to a blog you enjoy reading.

We update the list each week and would like to track a few more dozen blogs so the competition heats up a bit more. Bring ‘em on!