The Buzz Bin

Ian Schafer shares his video of the IAB Forum Panel on UGC and Social Media on his blog IansSchafer.com. The panel also features Rohit Bhargava, Geoff Riss, Aaron Lilly and Chad Stoller. They offer insight on getting consumers to care enough about a message to socially interact with it. The key, says Chad, is to get consumers to care about the brand in the first place.

For anyone who needs a list of useful products and services on the web like Facebook, Viddler, Tumblr, etcetera, check out Frank Gruber’s post on Somewhat Frank that lists many of his favorite “shiny objects.” This post will truly improve your experience on the web. Frank’s comprehensive list of tools helps with everything from communicating, to photo and video sharing, to arranging travel, and much more.

If you don’t know all of the details of the new iPhone 3G already, Eric Friedman, from Marketing.FM, will catch you up to speed. The next generation iPhone seems to have some great new applications for the social media savvy user. Some features that include location based features, the ability to delete information remotely incase the phone is misplaced, MLB.com integration of live clips, and many more. Eric also provides a number of links to other iPhone blogs for some additional information.

Now that Yahoo! will be running ads sold by their nemesis, Google, what does that mean for online marketers? On Click Z, Zachary Rodgers shares his opinion in his latest post. According to Zachary, this could mean increased prices for keyword ads and less value for marketers.

In response to the disastrous flooding in Iowa and other parts of the Midwest, Rex Hammock takes a look at how the Red Cross is using social media for disaster response efforts. According to RexBlog.com, WordPress, Flickr, Google Maps Mashups, Slide.com, YouTube and Twitter are all part of the mix.