Chris Brogan had a post yesterday about why he would offer 10 cent wings on a wing night, if he owned a restaurant. I’m seriously craving chicken wings now, thanks Chris!

These are both great examples of acquiring new business.

If your parents never used Amazon to purchase music (or anything else for that matter), they will now have accounts to do so. Perhaps they even opted in for Amazon special offer emails as they checked out from their Gaga purchase.

If you had never been to the restaurant to try the wings before, and you enjoyed them at such a discounted price, you’ll likely return for more (discounted or not). Heck, that’s how I still return to the Wheat Sheaf every time I’m back in Toronto – not to mention their wings are AWESOME!

While you may lose money in a big promotion, you need to factor in the value of the new customers you have acquired. Was it worth it?

Photo from Flickr by: framboise

The only stipulation is that you need to be living in one of the cities where a script is available. If you’re a developer in Nashville PLEASE create this for us too!

Here’s an example of the script developed by Stv. for the Vancouver Public Library. I recorded this screencast so you can see it in action. So cool!

Be sure to watch this in full screen screen mode.

To run this yourself:

• Install the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox (use Firefox)
• Install the Amazon Library script of your choice.
• Visit amazon.com and wait for the magic.

Chris Brogan also has an awesome post about the library of today, he raises some interesting questions about the future of the library as we know it.

Photo by: slimninja on Flickr.

Swine Flu is all the craze on Twitter (and just about everywhere else too). Just a couple of days ago, Mashable reported that there were 10,000 mentions per hour of the dreaded virus! Twitter hysteria has really begun, but creativity and hilarity has also followed.

I would say the most popular retweeted silly item is the domain: www.doihavepigflu.com. Go there now if you haven’t yet, it’s pretty funny.

According to Re:Tweetist, the domain is the second most popular retweeted item on Twitter. Hats off to Jason DeFillippo for creating such a hilarious page, and for inspiring others to play along.

What’s really brilliant is something I don’t think anybody has noticed. I should mention that I am not slamming Jason here, I think it’s a smart idea. The link to the Amazon page is an affiliate link. This means that for those of you who actually buy a mask, Jason is getting a cut.

Now I hardly imagine Jason is going to be able to retire with the cash he’s earning from Amazon. I hope he’s at least earning enough to pay for his hosting fees. If you think the site is hilarious, you may even choose to buy a mask to support him.

Let’s just hope we don’t all need a mask soon, but if I do I know where I’ll be going to buy one.