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  • How The Web Changes Part 1 - I’ve enjoyed this crazy industry for almost 5 years now. Things have changed, and changed again, and they continue to change on a day to day basis. It’s what keeps things interesting. This post is here to just go over several small, and large changes that I’ve witnessed first hand [...]
  • ASW West: I’m The Kid Who Sits Outside - I’m getting ready to fly to vegas this Sunday for Affiliate Summit West.. But I’m still not old enough and can’t even get into the show! After 3 years of flying to Affiliate Summits and pondering with Shawn Collins EVERY SHOW about getting in it really frustrates me. Couldn’t he spend $60 and buy wristbands [...]
  • Where I’ve Been - I’ve received numerous e-mails lately from fellow marketers where I am, What I’m up to and why I’m not blogging. Well I’ve just been extremely busy with my partner Ryan Eagle building our private network EWA. Ryan and I launched EWA in February and have been growing the network since. We’ve kept our business model [...]
  • How to make money on Facebook with Local Ads - Not talking about affiliate ad network offers, but making money on facebook advertising serving the thousands of business that are in your neighborhood. Most of the dentists, lawyers, roofing contractors, cosmetic surgeons and other professional service firms are spending a few thousand a month on yellow page advertising. Most of that money is flushed down [...]
  • Talk like an idiot or an entrepreneur - Linguists have done studies finding that executives and entrepreneurs use a wholly different vocabulary. If your words are a reflection of the inner workings of your brain– in the same way that a microphone with a reversed current becomes a speaker– then we can analyze the language of successful people to determine how their brains [...]
  • Where I’ve been - I’m a speaker at Affiliate Convention, which is in Denver from June 17-20th. The topic that I’m speaking on is “Representing the Interests of Affiliates”, where I’ll cover the key issues that affiliates deal with and how to deal with them. As an affiliate, you’re probably a one man (or one woman) show, so [...]
  • I’ve been busy..But I’m back - Wow.. It’s been a few months since a last post and I finally have a minute to let everybody know what I’m doing. Recently I’ve been staying home and restructuring things and focusing on the old fashion affiliate business model (just me, myself, and I getting stuff done :)) It’s doing well and it’s really [...]
  • Going to Endeavor conference in India - My friend Vivek Bhargava runs an outsourced PPC agency in India. He has been selected as a finalist in Endeavor, which provides support and access to local entrepreneurs. For example, the heads of companies like McKinsey and Tata are there. Will be great to see the opportunity to expand our on a [...]
  • SEO Consultant Fakery: Part II - A month ago, I exposed a SEO consultant that fleeced ignorant clients. The other day, another internet marketing company, called us to promote their services. Somehow, I was a lead in their system, and they mentioned a site I hadn’t touched in several years. So I posed as a client– asking them about what [...]
  • Social Media (the concept, not the company)– enter my contest, win a free shirt! - I am honored to be the keynote speaker at SMX Singapore in 6 weeks from now, kicking off the conference with a talk on “social media”. I’ve spoken on panels before, though this engagement is more important and I want to make sure it’s a killer presentation. I’ll cover a bit of what [...]

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  • Ron Paul, Mitt Romney Leading On Facebook Ahead Of Florida Primary - Screen Shot 2012-01-27 at 5.40.06 PMThe Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook fans that each candidate is getting, according to the Inside Facebook Election Tracker. Mitt Romney is finally making some strong gains this month, in contrast to his Facebook performance over December. By "strong gains" I mean he's been attracting a roughly similar number of fans to Ron Paul, the candidate who normally dominates on the web (and the clear leader last month). The two have fought for the daily lead for most of January, except for when Rick Santorum surged around his Iowa primary win on the 3rd.
  • Harvard Gets Its First VC Firm: The Experiment Fund - Experiment FundAs just about everyone should know by now, the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge? If so, a new venture capital firm — the first housed right on the Harvard campus — wants to find them.
  • Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your Laptop - not_real_obviouslyThe Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won't be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an impromptu Dance Central 2 party. Of the 10 million Kinects out there, the only ones connected to computers are the ones being fiddled with by the various hackers and students making science projects out the things. But according to the Daily, Microsoft is hoping to remedy this particular situation by building Kinect sensors right into your laptops. TechCrunch alum Matt Hickey got to handle a pair of prototypes, which were confirmed to be official, not just one of the many experiments that hide within Microsoft's various lairs.
  • Twitter Puts Its DMCA Takedown Requests Up For All To See - twixYesterday's announcement that Twitter would be selectively censoring tweets based on country was not well-received. But part of that announcement was the assurance that the process would at least be transparent. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. They also mentioned that they were working with Chilling Effects to make notices and orders sent to Twitter publicly available. At the time of the post yesterday, the site wasn't up yet, but you can now browse it at chillingeffects.org/twitter.
  • Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest Partner - geoff-ralstonY Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston's previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail. Ralston spent eight years at Yahoo, eventually becoming Yahoo's Chief Product Officer. Several years after leaving Yahoo he was named CEO of Lala, before it was acquired by Apple in 2009. Most recently he cofounded Imagine K12, a tech incubator for education-related startups, which presented at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (you can find the incubator's first batch of companies here). 
  • Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV) - Gillmore Gang test patternThe Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls & Steve Gillmor - is recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording has concluded.
  • Flurry: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is Already Starting To Smoke Samsung’s Galaxy Tab - flurryWuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab ought to be feeling the heat. Tapping into the data provided by their app analytics platform (which they estimate has found its way onto around 90% of the Android devices out there), Flurry highlights a few surprising numbers.
  • Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition - groupshotWe took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we're back. What we've got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and unfortunately, our favorite Android devices for the past two months are also exclusively at Verizon, so Big Red subscribers should pay attention. Without further ado, these are our favorite December/January releases of the Android persuasion: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the LG Spectrum, and the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx. Enjoy!
  • Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future Employers - Screen Shot 2012-01-27 at 20.23.00BraveNewTalent is a social recruitment platform operating in the UK and moving into the US. I caught up with CEO and founder Lucia Tarnowski at Davos. The startup is built around the idea that people want to follow companies they might want to work for in the future, and companies in turn want to educate potential hires about how they work. They recently introduced a few new features, which Tarnowski outlines, notably the new feature enabling a user to follow the key employees of a company.
  • Davos: Ushahidi Grows Its Global Crowd-sourcing Platform, Slams Twitter Censorship [TCTV] - Screen Shot 2012-01-27 at 20.11.37At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder of Ushahidi, the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya. Starting with just a handful of countries in 2009, it's main product, Crowdmap, is now used in hundreds of countries for crisis mapping and even crowd sourcing information about nuclear weapons in Iran. I got an update from her about their latest moves. These include news that the Omidyar Network, which put $1.4m towards Ushahidi, and which late last year put in another $1.9m.