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Diabetes The Epidemic!

A diagnosis of diabetes can be overwhelming. You have to deal with new medications and/or the probability of daily shots of insulin, constant monitoring of your blood sugar and radical changes in diet. Eating anything containing sugar can disrupt...

Trends Report – MGM v. Grokster

Once again Google captured headlines this week. However, their new product feature and $300 per share sustained closing price was not enough to command the majority of the internet advertising related media. Something close to the heart of any...

Digital Thoughts – Plausible Deniability

Those looking for a stock tip probably should have wagered on Intermix recovering, which it did after announcing roughly two weeks ago that it had settled its spyware suit brought on by Elliot Spitzer. Besides paying $7.5 million, the company also...

Hey! Get Off My Desktop

Adware is not inherently bad... As an affiliate marketer on the distribution end of the business, it’s difficult for me to categorically label this form of online marketing as malicious. The problem lies not in the applications themselves...

The Theory of Poker

"Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose."

Digital Thoughts – Keeping Up With The End User

Sometimes a seemingly random occurrence can lead to one’s viewing the world differently. That experience happened recently when observing a seven year-old girl skip through commercials with the help of a digital video recorder (DVR). Until that moment...

Trens Report – Clash Of The Titans

Another week, another $100 million plus deal - that has certainly been the case the past two months regarding mergers and acquisitions activity in the Internet advertising related space. This week’s deal? Viacom, the parent company to MTV Networks...

JetBlue, American Express Partner For Loyalty Card

JetBlue Airways and American Express are teaming up to release a co-branded credit card this summer that will let card members earn reward dollars that can be converted into points under the airline's Flight Gratitude program, TrueBlue. The JetBlue Card ...

Veltex Acquires Promotional Products Unit/Signs Golfer John Daly

Veltex Corp., a manufacturing, import and distribution company for apparel and accessories, has acquired the promotional products division of a Canadian manufacturing and distribution company. The division of Explorer HeadGear has license agreements in ...

Affiliate Summit 2005

This year was my first time attending an Affiliate Summit. The show definitely wasn’t on the same scale as an Ad-tech, but still a great opportunity to learn, connect, and see familiar faces. The sold out Summit took place at the Riviera Hotel & Casino...