From Wired– ON FEBRUARY 25, 2009, a then 34-year-old career con man named David Anthony Whitaker left the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and slid into the backseat of an unmarked government car. He was dressed in traditional prison garb—khaki pants, brown shirt, handcuffs, leg irons. A federal agent sat beside him. A … Read more
He claimed that he owned part of Facebook and asked for million and millions of dollars. Well that claim has now ended up with him being charged for fraud. Paul Ceglia of Wellsville said Friday he believes Facebook is behind the criminal charges. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook declined to respond to the allegations. Federal prosecutors … Read more
Some news are just not meant to be heard and this one is just one of those you’d rather do without. A friend of many in this industry and a person who has shown great character and integrity, someone who I personally respected and talked to just a few weeks ago is no longer among … Read more
ADOTAS – More often than not, companies that are not happy with the state of their affiliate program and/or their manager are struggling for one reason: They’re not devoting enough time and resources to the management of the program. In an effort to keep the total costs of their affiliate program low, many companies nit-pick the … Read more
Are you a victim of Google’s Penguin 2.0, or as I call it, the Super Penguin? Should you be scared of what is happening since it was launched today? Jennifer Selleck of Performance Marketing Insider goes in-depth with what you need to know in order to prevent yourself from being slapped by Penguin 2.0. According … Read more
LEHI, Utah (May 23, 2013) — Last month, LinkTrust solidified their position as the first choice for email marketers by filing a patent on exclusive email marketing technology. The LinkTrust RTA is patent-pending technology that makes it easy to control the reputation of tracking domains by utilizing external servers for email and other marketing traffic … Read more
Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team, confirmed last night that the Penguin 2.0 update which he mentioned in the past couple weeks is now live. In his ‘This Week in Google, Episode #199’ he said that it was rolling out over the next few hours. So, if you woke up to big … Read more
A Pew Research Center survey has found that many people, especially teens, are continuing to get tired of Facebook. Many of them are spending less time on the social media site moving to alternative options like Twitter and even Google +. There were many reasons given by the teens in the survey, including the fact … Read more
State Legislation – Minnesota passed an affiliate nexus tax, as expected. F 677 will go into effect June 30, 2013. If you are a Minnesota-based affiliate marketer, or if you are a retailer with Minnesota-based affiliate marketing partners, we strongly suggest you consult legal or tax advice. – Missouri’s House and Senate quickly passed an affiliate nexus … Read more
Yahoo continues to make big changes to hopefully get the company back on the right track. Everyone has heard of the recent acquisition of Tumblr earlier this week, and today there was a major overhaul to the Yahoo! Owned picture sharing site Flicker. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, reported that she made the challenge to her … Read more
Really interesting news out of CAKE, we’ve passed on the press release below. They’ve started a certification program for all their partners which provides, among other things, some form of training. It’s an interesting program, because it’s shows customers that the networks and companies they work with are a step above any average network, because … Read more
While the reaction to Yahoo purchasing Tumblr has been largely positive from both investors of Yahoo and users of the Tumblr blogging platform, it seems like not everyone was happy with the move. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reported that on the Sunday when the purchase was (unofficially) announced they saw a huge spike in the … Read more
An interesting story out of the Google I/O conference last week actually took place just across the street from the conference center. As Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) continues to attempt to gain relevance in the search engine wars they have been pushing a marketing campaign called “Bing it On”. This push has been going on … Read more
Two operators of alleged tech support scams have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission complaints and give up their ill-gotten gains. Mikael Marczak, doing business as Virtual PC Solutions, and Sanjay Agarwalla were among the subjects of a series of six complaints filed by the FTC last September as part of the Commission’s ongoing efforts … Read more
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