Digging Deep into to the Summit & When the Sleeper Wakes
I have spent the last few days, off the grid, recuperating from the “controversial” Affiliate Summit” in Las Vegas. Ironically, I found no controversy over the issues. Overall I…
Continue Reading >Just finished reading a couple stories from Wired.com, one was called Desperate Botnet Battlers Call for an Internet Driver’s License that summed up the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Counter e-Crime Operations Summit and some of the things they were talking about to…
Continue Reading >I remember when I first go into affiliate marketing and discovered the old CJ forums that blew up and grew into Abestweb, and then when adware and spyware started overwriting affiliate cookies like there was no tomorrow, we tried and…
Continue Reading >Yes, I’m having fun with acronyms and abbreviations. I have to do something to counter the anger at the poor reporting from AP on the Fair Isaac report on click fraud. Gasp! They just found out that 15% of clicks are…
Continue Reading >Adware and malware are not just for hijacking sales anymore, it can help you sell a web property as well. Not directly, of course, but in traffic statistics and the number of unique visitors your website gets. It’s still all…
Continue Reading >I do plan to get back to my philosophical postings, but when I saw this report forwarded by Kellie Stevens today I could only shake my head.
Bittersweet, really…since most of Zango usage, and this is no big secret, comes from arbitraged…
Continue Reading >Microsoft IE Security MVP, Sandi Hardmeier, pinged me earlier this weekend over yet another problematic advertisement in a big network. She blogs again on the elusive “Winfixer”, or you can pick a name among many, for this deceptive software scam.…
Continue Reading >We have talked and talked about how advertisers need to know who their partners are, who they are paying money to show their ads and where, how if they are not careful about who they partner with, they could end…
Continue Reading >A former California Judge, Ronald C. Kline, was sentenced this week to 27 months of federal prison for possession of child pornography, he had thousands of pictures of under-age boys on his computer, and he was first noticed because of…
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