Web 0.1

I saw this on Life & Times http://theforrester.wordpress.com/ this morning. I thought it would make good reading while drinking your coffee this morning. It lists the first 100 domains ever registered. Interestingly, it took over 2 years and 8 months for the first 100 domains to get registered. The first...

FTC fines Zango $3 Million

As reported on Wired. Government regulators fined rogue adware distributor Zango (formerly 180Solutions) $3 million following charges that the company deceived internet users into installing its pop-up software and tried to prevent them from uninstalling it. Zango, which bundles its pop-up software with downloads such as screensavers or games, agreed...

Warner Bros. Online partners with 180 Solutions

I was surprised to read in MediaPost that Warner Bros. Online has a partnership with 180 Solutions to distribute two new shows via its consumer site Zango.com. One of the shows is an animated feature called "Medical Island" and the other is a soap opera (appropriately) called "Deception". The rub...

Performics releases new network data

Once again Shawn Collins scooped me and blogged today about Performics releasing EPC and Payout Rank network wide (come on Shawn if you had blogged it here, I wouldn't have had to write this). As many of you know Commission Junction began showing these metrics back in July 2001. I...

Project Black Book - soft launches - publishes interesting data

Shawn Collins blogged this earlier today on his site - he really should be blogging here though so he gets more exposure (wink). What got my attention was the affiliate network data Project Black Book published on Commission Junction, LinkShare, ClickBank, Azoogle, My Affiliate Program and RegNow. Apparently they have...

Merger News

Hot off the presses - Santa Barbara headquartered Partnercentric (formally The Affiliate Goddess) has merged with Thailand based AMWSO....

Revenews/Waller Wired Mention

I was excited to see Brad Waller quoted for an article he wrote on Revenews in a Wired story about online gambling today. It shows how big Revenews is getting and I am sure will drive more traffic and readers to the site. When I worked at Commission Junction we...

What ever happened to Todd Crawford?

Here I am! I am excited to be a part of the Revenews blogger set. I have been following Revenews since Brian Clark started it back in 1998. Until now, I have limited my involvement to commenting on other’s posts and behind the scenes contributions (a.k.a. off the record comments...