Browsing all posts from October, 2007.
10/27/07
Matt, Claire, Chris and everyone else at who had a hand in organising the A4U Expo should get a massive pat on the bank for what turned out to be the best affiliate event that I have had the pleasure of attending (and I’ve attended a fair few). Day 1 My roundup is potentially going [...]
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10/12/07
Welcome to my first edition of A Week in the Affiliate World, a new feature that I hope to do on a regular basis. If you are asking yourself what this is and the reasons for it, let me take a minute to explain. As there are so many affiliate/search/social blogs around these days, I [...]
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10/07/07
I’m sad tonight. My (work) Macbook died. I’ve had it for all of about 2 months, decided that as my iTunes database was getting pretty big (8gb) I would back it up. Went through the backup process and about half way through writing to the first DVD it all froze up. Did a hard reboot [...]
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10/05/07
This is a strange one. As I’ve mentioned a few times, we (Altogether Digital) are soft-launching our new affiliate network in a few weeks time and as part of this I had a query for the IT director at the provider we are using. To give you a bit of background, we decided to use [...]
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10/05/07
A nice personal post, so I apologies if you came here thinking that I was releasing a merchant program for a Martial arts school, or something similar. Last night I signed up to GKR Karate (after a door to door sales woman came visiting). So on Saturday 13th October I will start my quest to [...]
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10/05/07
E-Consultancy are reporting that Kate Burns has joined Buy.at to consult on how to establish more agency relations. Kate has an impressive CV which includes being the first employee that google hired outside of the US and has also worked with Doubleclick, Altavista, and Yahoo!. Kate Burns adds, “I want to help buy.at get agencies [...]
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10/04/07
This is neat. It’s been announced today that BT (British Telecom for those who were unaware) have partnered up with FON – a Spanish Wifi company. Ultimately the partnership with see “hundreds of thousands” of Wifi hotspots created across the UK with the vision to give the whole nation free Wifi internet, well, BT customers [...]
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10/04/07
If you are an affiliate, affiliate manager, network employee or agency worker then the chances are that you are registered for the a4uexpo at the end of October. The event is hosted on the 25th/26th October in the London Excel centre and looks by all accounts to be a right corker! I’ll be standing around [...]
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10/04/07
The new Sony Bunny Play-doh ad has just come out. It’s marvelous. So here’s the link to the Sony site so you can have a look at one of the best ads this year. But why is it not on YouTube yet? Sources close to the makers suggest that YouTube is not the best channel [...]
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10/03/07
I hate writers block. Maybe it’s because I’m tired but i’ve really been lacking in creativity and finding things to write about recently. I need some inspiration and hopefully the juice will start flowing again soon. In the mean time I got a little bored with the old design – too much blue so i’ve [...]
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