For Sale: Jeff Molander (Update)

Bidding has heated up in the auction for JeffMolander.com. In fact, it just passed $200 a minute ago. I thought it would go for either $1 or $200. It looks like my valuation will turn out to be low. Shocking! There have been 10 different eBay IDs bidding on the...

Million Dollar Home Page Is Full

In case you missed the hype, Alex Tew has sold out all one million pixels on Million Dollar Home Page. The final 1,000 pixels went for a whopping $38,100 on eBay (last week the bidding was as high as $152,000 but it appears that there were some bogus bids). Alex...

Affiliate Summit: My Backpack

Several people at Affiliate Summit asked me about my backpack (I thought that made it worthy of an article). Yes, it is a solar backpack. Yes, it is the ultimate geek gear. It is from Voltaic which is a ShareASale merchant. It can charge any cell phone (actually, it can...

PriceGrabber Rumours... or are they?

Rumours have been wild lately in the blogosphere about Experian acquiring PriceGrabber. Several blogs (1, 2, and 3) have pointed to my article on June 6th (Shopping Comparison Scorecard). Experian Interactive's network of sites (e.g. Experian Consumer Direct, MetaReward, Affiliate Fuel LowerMyBills.com, ConsumerInfo.com, etc.) ranks in the top 20. PriceGrabber...

McDonaldz.com: My new website

I have decided on a whimsical name for my new website. I am calling it McDonaldz.com. It is an online shopping site. If there is any company or product with a similar name, say in the food industry, I'm sure they won't mind. This seems to be the thinking of...

MSN and Yahoo... or was it MSN and AOL?

Rumors circulated last month about MSN buying half of AOL. Today, in an interesting twist, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they were tying the IM knot. If MSN is planning on investing in AOL, why would it partner with Yahoo instead. Whether MSN plan any JV with AOL or not,...

Cross the Red Cross Off Your List

If you take a look at the top right side of Revenews today, you will see a triangle asking you to donate money to the Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It seems to be a knee-jerk reaction that when a catastophe hits, people put Red...

Experian Acquires Harvest Solutions

Yesterday I was thinking that Experian was due for another acquisition. It's been a few weeks since the last one. Guess what... DATABASE MARKETER EXPERIAN'S E-MAIL DIVISION, CheetahMail, said on Monday it acquired analytics provider Harvest Solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Per the acquisition, CheetahMail will integrate...

Yahoo! Calling

First there was SBC Yahoo! In May, Yahoo launched a beta version of Messenger with some VoIP qualities. Today it announced its acquisition of DialPad. Maybe we'll see Yahoo SBC replaced by MSSBC....

Blogging for Dollars

J. Ryan wrote a great piece entitled Blogging for Dollars in which he exposes a scam (or is it merely a scheme) by USWeb. It seems that Ed Shull, CEO of USWeb is paying people $5 via PayPal or iTunes gift certificates to blog positively (of course he claims to...

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 the game when he bought ZeroDegrees. Of course, it doesn't...

Sidebrick: Just a Big Phone

One of the biggest marketing fiascos of all time is the Audi 5000. "60 Minutes" reported on a malfunction with the accelerator. Audi, being the good German company that it is, insisted that all accidents resulting from "unintended acceleration" were due to driver error. Audi's sales plummetted and remained low...

Register Your Domains

On January 25, 2005 I saw a banner ad on Yahoo advertising its improved Web hosting service. The ad was for a mock business with a site located at www.TheFlyingOstrich.com. I figured "OK, I'll bite" and went to see what the marketing geniuses at Yahoo dreamed up for "The Flying...