Just had notice about Amazon Widgets , which looks like it is tring to go down the route of auctionads . On first look you get quite a few options for what you want to do
There is quite a selection and you are sure to find something you like. After you have chosen what you want to show on your site you can move onto the next stage.
You can do a search what what products you want to feature, for example if you are using it on a blog about bloggind you could search for 'wordpress, blogger' and then you will see a selection of items you may want to add.
As you can see above you see a list of items and you add them to the selected items. You can add your own comments to try to talk people into buying the items.
After you have finished you will arrive at the content and layout screen all of the views explain themselves well and can add some extra visual feel to the widget.
After choosing the layout you then have a screen with a long list of places you may want to add the script, you could also add the script manually by cutting and pasting the script.
Once you have it pasted or added to your blog/website you will have a nice visual widget that could earn you money through referrals and sales from amazon.
I like the look and the way you have so many options for the layout and what you want.
You can find an example of the widget here and have a look in the sidebar
