Archive for March, 2005
P2P: MGM v. Grokster
If you are interested at all in P2P and digital media rights, you need to read this piece by Travis Kalanick in the Financial Times.
Travis was one of the founders of Scour and is the founder…
What To Sell On eBay: Lame Idea #2
My second nomination for the Lame Idea About What To Sell On eBay Award is the entire idea about finding “hot” products. If you really want to know what’s sizzling, what’s fiery H-O-T, spend a few hours watching the informercials…
What To Sell On eBay: Lame Idea #1
What to sell on eBay is one of the most anxious questions on the entire Internet, and there are no dearth of people who will supply the answer to that question. Sadly, most of the advice is garbage, although it…
Blogs As Change Mechanisms
If you want hard answers, you gotta ask the tough questions. It’s obvious that most journalists are leaving that up to the bloggers these days. I don’t know about you, but the newspapers I read nowadays are full of regurgitated…
AmazType: Coolest Affiliate App Yet
Amaztype looks like the coolest affiliate app yet and I mean affiliate app in the best way. Try this out. It uses Amazon Web Services to create something cool. My kids love it.
Try out these links for:
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Yahoo 360: Social Network from Yahoo… finally!
Yahoo 360 is here. I have wondered for a while why Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft (still in beta with Three Degrees which seems to be for teenagers only and not adults) weren’t taking over social networking. Barry Diller got into…
Top 3 common affiliate program misconceptions.
There are some fundamental errors, omissions and misconceptions I’m often faced with when consulting to companies that want to start affiliate programs.
The #1 issue is that clients budget to reach ROI inside of 3 months.
This is due in…
Hacked Affiliate Link?
Just got off the phone with an affiliate, one of those smart ones that you actually do get to meet in person. I’ll provide the facts, you provide feedback:
- Affiliate has long-standing site with static pages
- Affiliate…
Analytics buying spree Related to Cookie Deletions?
Two Web site analytics companies were just sold. WebTrends was spun off to a private equity group for $94M cash, and Urchin Software was bought by Google. Why the sudden interest in analytics? With all the…
Rumormill: Diller Eying DCLK & Amazon’s Move Into Video
Rumors are flying among financial types that Barry Diller (fresh from announcing plans to acquire Ask Jeeves) is eying DoubleClick.
In related rumorville news, I hear that Performics CEO, Jamie Crouthamel, flew the coop.
aQuantive’s CEO, Brian McAndrews, said that…
