This morning I remembered that Shawn Collins had started a contest on 99 Designs for a new GeekCast.fm logo. I headed over to the contest page to see what was going on with it, and was a little surprised that a winner had already been chosen (I thought the contest was going to run longer). [...]
From the monthly archives:
August 2009
Few things in the affiliate marketing industry infuriate me more than hearing someone say, for whatever reason, “I may have to go out and get a real job”. In the ongoing fight with various state legislatures, the tax scheme commonly called the “Amazon tax” seeks to use affiliates of online merchants as definitions of nexuses [...]
Last September, I wrote a bit about a travel reservation mix-up that I had with Southwest Airlines and how they were super cool about fixing it for me. I wrote that they had earned my respect after the way I was treated by the customer service representatives that I spoke to. Well, they just did [...]
Earlier this week, URL shortener tr.im shut down. Then they reopened after what they’re calling an outpouring of support from users. Sort of. Is this the service you should trust your redirection to? Using a URL shortening service is a popular way to hide a destination, save space in a Twitter or Identi.ca message, and [...]
Who would have thought that we’d actually do two shows in two days? We’ve historically had a hard time doing two shows in two weeks! Here we are though, with back-to-back shows. We recorded Episode #25 yesterday with special guest David Jacobs, and we had a great time. Then, this morning, Twitter and a few [...]
Another Affiliate Summit is upon us, and for the second time this year, I’ll be missing it. It seems to be my pattern: my first time was in 2006, I missed both in 2007, went in 2008, then missed both in 2009. I guess that means I’ll be going again in 2010! My experience with [...]
