New York, NY, January 31, 2007 – As part of a new initiative to honor individual and corporate “Rising Stars” in the direct marketing community, the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (DMEF) announces…

When we cover the lead generation space, we most often focus on new companies, acquisitions, interesting technologies, and/or strategies used in the space. In today’s hot bed of lead generation growth, we don’t often cover or…

Hard to believe, but more than four years has passed since eBay bought PayPal. In those four years, those at PayPal, and specifically, those who decided to leave PayPal have kept busy. In the Long Island of the West, Silicon…

According to a recent report titled “Security Threat Report 2007” released by Sophos, an IT security firm, the U.S. and China host the most sites containing malware and relay the most spam.

When unlicensed videos appear on a big online video site, the word “lawsuit” usually comes to mind. But in the case of the BBC and Google Video, the ending looks to be a lot happier, and a lot less legally sticky.

Scott Richter has been accused of being one of the world’s top three spammers and holds the auspicious moniker of the “Spam King.” He is also being used by the king of the social networking world, News Corp.’s MySpace.

Google has a stranglehold on the search engine realm, and consequently dominates Internet advertising, but the company is not satisfied with that. In recent times, Google has been making progress in its print, radio, and even…

This week, the fastest growing tradeshow that many have not heard of took place in Las Vegas. As was the case last year, and the year before that and perhaps at every show they’ve organized, this year’s show sold out. Several of…

Those in the Web 2.0 world know Michael Arrington. The affiliate world has no direct equivalent, but one of its larger than life personalities, Jon F***** (he doesn’t like his last named shared), founder of Wicked Fire Forums, had site…

I apologize for not posting frequent, live Affiliate Summit West event coverage as I meant to. After a late, exhausted arrival I was playing catch up the whole time and didn’t get to blog as much as I’d hoped-I’ll try my best to do a better job of this at future events.