Ok we all know that no one really goes to the International Consumer Electronics Show for the sessions. With over 2,700 exhibitors eager to showcase their marquee product line for this year in hopes of creating the kind of buzz…

You know those little icons on your desktop that designate the presence of a active program or the same icons in a browser that designate the presence of an active file? Mac or PC you have been using them for…

In tough times companies are forced to make difficult decisions. Sometimes they make wrong ones. Best Buy made an epically dunderheaded one this week when it announced via email that affiliate commissions for two of its best selling product lines…

I am not a prude by any means. Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “malfunction” did not shock me. However, the porn photos masquerading as profile pictures for porn spammers that Yahoo allows into MyBlogLog I do find irritating.

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There are not many things that can bring affiliates to band together. Cheating them out of their commissions is one sure way to do it.

As technology grows the various affiliate networks, rather than adapting the way their compliance departments…

As an editor there times when you find yourself torn between personal/public sentiment and the journalistic ideal of providing a neutral forum. Last month with the dust-up over having Hydra as an advertiser when our authors are calling for an association…

A good affiliate manager is hard to find. It is not just a matter of having the right contacts, but also a matter of managing merchant expectations while enabling growth in the affiliate channel that is both ethical and sustainable.…

Watch carefully, for it is a well known fact that Chris Pirillo may at any moment place a random shoe upon his head. If you are not careful it may even be your own. The real trick to Gnomedex’s success…

Man has always been fascinated with space. In terms of public sentiment NASA has fallen a long way from the heights it enjoyed during the Apollo era. Private projects like the X-Prize Foundation have won media coverage and public following…

Photos have power. They can entertain, document, convey emotion, and form opinion. Without context the person looking at the photo may come away with emotions unintended by the photographer. Thus the beauty of art. Given context, photos can put a…