Internet and Affiliate Marketing News

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• Amazon Video Widgets - Earn Money From the Amazon Affiliate Program and Video

  July 4, 2008

  Amazon have launched a new handy Video Widget that will interest many bloggers wanting to combine the use of video and the Amazon Affiliate program.The widget allows you to make a video and then upload it to Amazon to be hosted where you can add little pop-up product links and pictures that appear throughout the video.You can choose which ...

  
• links for 2008-07-04

  July 4, 2008

  Emails from hotels - an overviewInterestingly these emails coming various hotel chains don't really focus on deals. Their is one here and there, but overall the focus is more on the experience.(tags: cases)64 Fathers Day Promotions(tags: cases)How we read online"[U]sers are selfish, lazy, and ruthless." When you ...

  
• Amazon Video Widgets

  July 4, 2008

  Amazon has a new affiliate creative option called the Video Widget where you earn commissions from Amazon product links embedded into videos. You can either create new videos to promote certain products or use videos you already have and incorporate product links with the Amazon widget tool.Here is one that I created with a video I made ...

  
• Links for 2008-07-03 [ma.gnolia]

  July 4, 2008

  Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips | sarahintampa If you haven't heard the news (where have you been?), a new Twitter clone service launched today called Identi.ca. (You can read the ReadWriteWeb coverageSaved By: CostPerNews | View Details | Give ThanksTags: twitter, identi.caTrishaLyn - CJ Jumping into SEO? ...

  
• 2008 dialup access statistics

  July 4, 2008

  From time to time I take a peek at the latest Internet dialup access statistics. Dialup access in the USA, even today, is still very much alive and well. ...

  
• Friday Podcast: Web Design That Increases Conversions With Ryan Jackson

  July 3, 2008

  One of my resources that I've mainly been keeping to myself over the past 2 years is a talent web designer who lives in a small (population 10,000) Australian town of Maryborough.Ryan Jackson AKA DesignGuruRyan, developed the template for this blog and designed and created almost all my product and affiliate sites too. (I take ...

  

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• Do You Have Adequate Risk Management Policies In Your Internet Marketing Business?

  July 3, 2008

  One of the takeaways from my friend, Tyler Project managing partner Leonard Lin's experience of having his Facebook account suspended this past week, has been to manage your risk, especially in the area of technology risk management.Failure to do so could mean a disruption in your business activities and in a worst case scenario, a ...

  

  
• Is Facebook The New Phantom Menace?

  July 2, 2008

  There was some buzz last week as the managing partner of Facebook application developer Tyler Projects, Leonard Lin, had his Facebook account suspended.In a post on Facebook, Leonard reproduced the suspension notice:Hi Leonard,As you may know, one of your posts in a Facebook group was removed because it was considered to be an advertisement or ...

  
• TAC Episode 1 - The Intro EPS

  July 3, 2008

  The TAC first episode is on Google Video and able to be watched. Here is my take on it.After the intros I think it was pretty cool that they decided to have the affiliate managers introduce themselves and what there company does and whats make them different. Many affiliates have been working with these companies for years and never put a face ...

  
• New Podcast: 15 Minutes Lessons by NYFalcon and Loxly

  July 3, 2008

  New affiliate marketing podcast that is off to a great start:Podcast: 15 Minutes Lessons by NYFalcon: "Making money online is easy once you have a plan. Nyfalcon can help with that as he has already made all the mistakes first. Listen to learn about topics like affiliate marketing and making money with contextual advertising"Hope they keep it ...

  
• Disqus API Plugin Update

  July 3, 2008

  For people like Scott Jangro that are fans of the Disqus API plugin (instead of the Javascript one that has all the fancy features), there's an update according to Disqus' Daniel Ha (Disqus being the commenting platform used here and on numerous other sites):twitter: danielha: If you use the API version of the Disqus WP plugin, we've released an ...

  
• New Version of Disqus API Plugin

  July 3, 2008

  Daniel Ha announced via twitter this evening that a new version of their API plugin is available.I quickly dropped it into the dev version of my blog and the only noticeable changes were support for video comments via seesmic (cool) and the look and feel is now the same as their JS version of the plugin. The tell-tale that someone was using ...

  
• Google Ordered to Hand Over YouTube User Info, But Not Ad Records

  July 3, 2008

  A federal judge yesterday ordered Google to hand over to Viacom information about YouTube users' viewing habits. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton's order set off a firestorm among privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group contends the disclosure of the information would violate a federal privacy law and ...

  
• Christian Affiliate Marketing Cruise at Affiliate Summit

  July 3, 2008

  Wade just pinged me and asked me to share info with you guys about the CAMA Cruise (Christian Affiliate Marketing Association) at Affiliate Summit East in Boston. ...

  
• ShareASale Party Pics from ASW '08

  July 3, 2008

  The pics from ShareASale's party at Affiliate Summit West back in February are finally up on Flickr.Lots of great shots of affiliate marketers (and lots of shots of Todd Crawford pointing at people)...ShareASale Party set on Flickr: "" ...

  
• Amazon's New Video Widget

  July 3, 2008

  Amazon has a nifty new video solution that allows you to embed product links based on what you're talking about in videos you are hopefully making. At the end of the video, the featured products are then shown in a list with prices and ratings. It's pretty straightforward and the video demo does a good job of explaining the new feature.Be ...

  
• The BBC hasn't a clue

  July 3, 2008

  I was amazed today to see this story on the BBC website complaining about the issue of spam. Now I hate spam as much as anyone but there is a huge difference between unsolicited commercial email and email you have requested.The well respected Free UK Stuff affiliate site operates on a best practice policy for email. Basically if the user signs ...

  
• 8 Companies Behind the 4th of July: Where Your Pool Toys, Beer, and Hot Dogs Come From

  July 3, 2008

  Fourth of July is the ultimate all-American holiday. Part of what makes it so American is the associated schwag. I can't think of a single 4th I've celebrated without beer and BBQs, flags and fireworks, corn on the cob, and hot dogs. Here's a list of the eight major Independence Day accessories\u2013and the companies behind them:Beer: ...

  
• I'm on BlogTalkRadio Today

  July 3, 2008

  At 5pm Pacific time today (10am Melbourne time) I'm being interviewed by Wayne Hurlbert (his blog) on Blog Talk Radio.If you're around and have the time it should be a fun interview. I'm told there will be downloadable recording of it in the coming days also and I'll post the link to it as I get it.PS: Wayne has been kind enough to do a review ...

  
• Twitter Account Go Boom

  July 3, 2008

  My wife went into labor at 5am this morning. On the way to the hospital I shot a quick twitter sms from my phone letting people know. I got back a error message but did not think that much about it because of all the issues especially with SMS.So as I am sitting in the hospital room I am browsing the web on my phone I try to log into twitter ...