- With the CPA space getting more and more crowded each day, the success for new affiliate marketers lies in living on the fringes and banking on niche offers. [Finch Sells]

- New market for affiliates promoting via mobile traffic? Research shows that 72% of all adults are text-messaging now. [MSNBC]

- If you’re still shaking in your boots re: that Google-Verizon plan to limit net neutrality, find relief in a local, independent ISP based in San Francisco that offers its customers unlimited bandwidth. [Ars Technica]

- Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz’s latest “Netiquette” column about the ramifications of unfriending on Facebook should provide a caveat to those affiliate marketers who add other affiliate marketers into their network in a bid to amp up the volume of connections–without gauging how they could better work together. [CNN]

- iPhone users eat chicken while Android users eat pork. Does this mean Blackberry users are vegetarians? [Gizmodo]

- The trouble with the dating vertical and copyright issues. [Riley Pool]

- The secret to successful marketing across any medium? Unmarketing. That is, positioning yourself as an expert in a field so people come to recognize you as an expert in that field. [MediaTrust]

- The key to the creative process lies in accelerating failure. [Adotas]

- On exit links in e-mails redirecting to landing pages: “Think of your email links as items on a restaurant menu.” [MediaPost]

- The whole world waits with bated breath as Apple gears up for a press conference to announce several new products at 1PM EST today. Could it be the iTimeWarp? [Gizmodo]

- Turns out that the end of net neutrality is still far, far away. [ArsTechnica]

– Digital marketers: Smart, but extremely crazy. [MediaPost]

- Why you should look into targeted regional marketing with Facebook if you haven’t already. [Jonathan Volk]

- In case Affiliate Summit East barely itched the scratch you have for networking, here’s a useful calendar of a 100+ upcoming social media events. [Mashable]

- Chances are of the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of e-mails pouring into your inbox, you only bother opening them one or two at a time. Thanks to a new Gmail feature, wading through all that correspondence may get a little easier. [Reuters]

- If you’re into that sort of thing, here’s how you can rig up an iMac with an old-fashioned typewriter to create a hybrid machine that we could probably call the “iTimeWarp.” [Gizmodo]

- Forget buzzwords and jingoism! Company mission statements, according to one writer, is “the the stuff you practice when the stuff hits the fan.” [MediaPost]

- Managing your affiliate manager. [Affiliate Tip]

- A search engine that lets affiliates search for offers based on keywords. [Jonathan Volk]

- Looking for something tech chic to go with those fiber optic cable heels? Look no further than this dress cobbled together from computer wires. [Gizmodo]

- Google wants to team up with Hollywood to stream pay-per-view movies. [Mashable

- A godsend to those affiliate marketers who may not have the budget to bankroll expensive long-distance plans to communicate with overseas affiliates, Gmail’s new free calling feature is already looking like the sweeter alternative to Skype. [Lifehacker]

- A heads-up to affiliate marketers looking to boost their friends counts on Facebook: Avoid the social network’s “People You May Know” suggestions as most of them can be malicious spam accounts. [AllFacebook]

- A handy guide on buying banner inventory. [Riley Pool]

- The art of the perfect e-mail subject line: Still imprecise. [MediaPost]

- Yet another useful how-to for affiliates: What to share and how much to share on your social media outlets without stepping on anybody’s toes. [Mashable]

- Quick fix = quick conversion; agree or disagree? [Finch Sells]

- The biggest challenge facing the Affiliate Marketing world currently? The struggle for longevity. [5 Star Affiliate]

- While on vacation, a man received an alert on his iPhone that someone had set off the motion detectors in his home. He called 911, but otherwise watched remotely, helplessly, as his house was burglarized. [Gizmodo]

- Several notes about trendspotting–an essential trait to succeeding in the affiliate market industry. [MediaPost]

- With the dust almost settled on ASE 2010, here is a useful photo gallery of the three-day event. [Affiliate Tip]

- Never underestimate the value of knowing how to have an effective conservation. [MediaPost]

- Cause Marketing–that is marketing that aims to increase conversions by donating some portion of commissions to a charitable cause–is one of the newest trends to sweep performance marketing. [Jonathan Volk]

- About 60 million Americans have confessed to playing Farmville or Farmville-like games. It’s time to monetize this trend. [Mashable]

- Make your old iPhone feel brand new again with this spiffy engraving job. [Gizmodo]

- And finally, catch up on all the ASE presentations you’ve missed. [Missy Ward]

- Since bloggers tend to be travelers at heart, here is a low-rent option for those who don’t want to be tied down an apartment. [Gizmodo]

- And if you’re a blogger living out of one of those newfangled mobile homes, maybe pontificating on Facebook Places and the relevance of geolocation makes sense. [MediaPost]

- Does being friendly to advertising clients give PlentyOfFish the upper hand against Facebook? [Mr. Green]

- We all know what a lucrative industry blogging is–and now the city of Philadelphia is looking to nickel-and-dime hobby-bloggers by forcing them to purchase $300 licenses to post entries to BlogSpot. [Zac Johnson]

- You’ve been missing out if you didn’t know about Gmail’s UNDO SEND feature. [Mashable]

One of the great things about Affiliate Summit East was the sense of camaraderie it inspired, which typically gets lost on the internet. However, the entire experience also served as a reminder to many that despite the glut of honest businesspeople who want to play by the rules in this industry, there will always be a handful of “unscrupulous marketers” who’ll do anything to jump to the front of the line. In an interview with the Performance Marketing Expo blog, our CEO, Amy Sheridan, gets to the heart of this matter and offers a simple solution to such a problem: Talking more.

– Disembodied robot arms can now toy with sushi. [Gizmodo]

- One writer tries to demystify the “best time to send” e-mail marketing enigma…and ends up just posing a whole new set of questions. [MediaPost]

- Social media is one giant party… [Adotas]

- …which begs the question: Are you going to the ASE tweetup? [Tweetvite]

- This is your last reminder! Schedule a time to meet with us at Affiliate Summit. Or try your luck with a drop-by. Meet Market Table Top#32 and Exhibit Hall Booth# RG1036.