links for 2009-10-12

"Addiply empowers small, local businesses to place an online advert in front of the audience that matters to them without the complexity and time costs of other advertising models."

Addiply was set up in part as an alternative to Google's advertising offering and involves a three-click process.

To see which parties are using Twitter most (effectively?), here's a few stats at the time of writring blog:

Labour: following 7,029 – followers 6,866 – Tweets: 855*
Conservatives: following 13,941 – followers 14,270 – Tweets: 1,447
Liberal Democrats: following 2,346 – followers 5,486 – Tweets: 802

Fwix runs 80 US city-based newsfeeds bringing together pro-amateur blogs and professional content and reaches some nine million unique users a month—and on Monday evening it launches in 12 UK cities including London, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow, Birmingham and, incongruously, the town of Andover in Hampshire. The 22-year-old former Facebook developer Shirazi told paidContent:UK ahead of the UK launch that he's already identified an average of 45 local blogs and news sources for each UK city feed and he's willing to share ad revenue with each of them…