Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Affiliate Bites: Twitter and TV Buddy Up, Super Affiliates’ Super-Fine Tastes, + More

» Brian Stelter examines how old and new media technologies are embracing one another as Twitter and television get more cozy. [New York Times] » Are you a super affiliate with super-fine tastes? Pace Lattin has a few suggestions as to how you can indulge in your taste for the finer things in life while [...]

Affiliate Bites: Facebook Faces Euro Penalty, Gmail’s Massive Reinvention, + More

» Facebook could have to pay a €100K penality for holding onto data that its users have deleted. [The Guardian] » According to this accidentally-leaked video clip, a new Gmail is headed our way. [Mashable] » We’d be lying if we said we weren’t curious about reading this fancy new tell-all about the late great [...]

Affiliate Bites: Google’s Handy New My IP Feature, Twitter Fails in China, + More

» A handy way to find out your IP address? Look for “my ip” in Google’s search prompt. [Google System] » Facebook makes it so that a bunch of people in an overcrowded airport care about a missing cat. [BetaBeat] » The founder of Twitter concedes: The microblogging juggernaut just can’t compete in China. [WSJ] [...]

Affiliate Bites: Facebook’s Frictionless Sharing Causes Friction, Affiliate Networks Are Evolving, + More

» Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” timeline feature is causing…well…a lot of friction. [Poynter] » …meanwhile, Simon Dumenco contends it’s becoming a black-hole of all content, devaluing all web-based media. [AdAge] » Google has big, display-powered dreams for its +1 button. [Performance Marketing Insider] » How a tech campus could change the face of New York [...]

Bonus Points: News Is Better As Taiwanese Animation Edition

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No one is quite sure how to monetize ‘The Daily’, a company you’ve never heard of is suing Facebook, and more. In Bonus Points!

Affiliate Bites: Apple to Kill iPod Classic?, Mark Zuckerberg Kills a Bison, + More

» Kashmir Hill has done a great write-up of some of the more obscure information about you that Facebook records for posterity, including a history of everyone who has ever poked you or who you have ever poked. [Forbes] » Apple is planning to kill the iPod classic. [Ars Technica] » A brand new tool–not [...]

Affiliate Bites: Google+ Traffic Surges, Facebook WANTs You, + More

» Google+ traffic was up a modest 1269% last week. [RWW] » Quite possibly creating the easiest inroads for marketers on the social platform, Facebook plans a WANT button. [Performance Marketing Insider] » With all this talk of the Amazon Tax, what’s life like for the workers who make the Amazon brand possible? [Morning Call] [...]

Bonus Points: Welcome to Autumn Edition

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It’s equinox madness! Facebook let’s you see who unfriended you; the RIAA lets you off the hook with a $10 slap on the wrist; and London petitions for the .london gTLD. In your Bonus Points!

Affiliate Bites: What’s the Future of Affiliate Marketing?, Cell Phone Service Hits NYC Subways, + More

» The PMA is asking all advertisers to get ready to immediately start up their previously-paused affiliate programs in California to take full advantage of the year-long stay on tax collection. [Performance Marketing Association] » It turns out that the U.S. and the E.U. have taken contrary stances on the issue of keyword trademark. [Performance [...]

Affiliate Bites: U.S. Gov’t Looks Into Google Ad Rates for Microsoft, Privacy Perceptions, + More

» PRICE CHECK! Turns out Google’s ad rate for Microsoft is under some serious U.S. governmental scrutiny. [Bloomberg BusinessWeek] » Another piece showing that perhaps privacy online is simply in the eye of the beholder…and that data is not really as invasive as we might make it out to be. [Adotas] » Angling to exhibit [...]