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  • MySpace Helps Out

    MySpace’s huge popularity and fame has not come without a cost. As the social networking site has swelled to enormous numbers, high-profile problems involving young users have led to complaints that the company has…

  • YouTube Will Share the Wealth

    In a mildly surprising statement over the weekend, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley indicated that the video sharing site would begin to share revenues produced by its videos with their creators “in the coming months.”

  • Malware and Spam Thrives in U.S. and China

    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.

  • BBC and Google Get More Comfortable

    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.

  • MySpace Sues the

    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 Looking to Invade Video Games

    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…

  • Affiliate Summit Roundup

    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…

  • MySpace Makes A Statement

    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…

  • My Favorite Session at Affiliate Summit West: The Confluence of Search and Affiliate Marketing by Kris from Pepperjam

    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.

  • Kimberly-Clark, The View Team for Room Makeover Sweeps

    Kimberly Clark and daytime talk show The View are out with a sweepstakes awarding free room makeovers worth $25,000 each.