Affiliate Summit Pinnacle awards results

The much awaited Affiliate Summit pinnacle awards have been announced at the ongoing 2007 Affiliate summit in vegas.

…and the winners are:

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FinalTag.com now running wordpress 2.1

It seems as though I find myself upgrading the blogging software here more than actually blogging something.

Wordpress 2.1 is now powering FinalTag.com. Apparently, there have been 550 major bug fixes in the 2.1 release (which came out about 13 hours ago from the time I am writing this)

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iTaggit - new social shopping bookmark service

After Wists, This Next, Gift Tagging, and others not quite worthy of a mention, it’s time to welcome iTaggit, the Brand-spanking-new (and beta because they want to be cool) social shopping bookmark website.

iTaggit is not just wish lists, what’s unique about them is that they allow you to catalog stuff you already have, and it’s social - so your buddies and buddies-to-be can see what you have and envy you - or not.

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All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW

No more Spam for wikipedia. To bad the good sites won’t get value from being linked but this will surely make spammers less interested in this great encyclopedia.

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New Startup booBox Has Serious Cash Potential For Blogs

A startup called booBox allows bloggers and other websites to sell items from Amazon and other etailers directly from their websites, without actually leaving the blog/website. Clicking on an image in the blog simply brings up a lightbox with the item on Amazon. Readers can then go through the checkout process and return to the original site.

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Google suggesting keyphrases to searchers

It seems that google recently and quietly has launched a feature very similar to the recently introduced “also try” feature on yahoo where if you search for something, related keywords are also presented that a searcher may try to gain more narrowed down results, these keywords are based on searches made by other users.

as of now, searches for only selected keywords are showing suggestions. The image above is for the search for “credit cards‘

Google already had this ability in the google toolbar with the search suggest feature, but this is for the first time that it is seen on the results pages.

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The iPod nano - world’s new unoffical currency benchmark

The Commonwealth bank of Australia has used the 2 GB iPod nano as a benchmark to compare global currencies and measure the purchasing power parity of 26 developed and developing countries.

According to the survey, Brazilians pay the most for an iPod, shelling out $327.71, well above second-placed India at $222.27.

This comes 20 years after The Economist magazine introduced the highly popular Big Mac index for the same purpose.

According to Craig James, the Chief Equities Economist at the bank, these results suggest that the U.S. currency had scope to rise against a range of major currencies except for the Hong Kong and Canadian dollars or the Japanese yen.

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Marketing a web 1.0 business in a web 2.0 world

So I have this little e-retail gift shop going that only recently started. For the 8 odd moths that it has been around, it seems as if the whole idea of doing business on the internet has become a completely new concept - As if, if my online business is not Web 2.0, cool, beta or social, it better die and rot in hell.

Now, the business is doing well, but all the old knowledge and sensibilities about marketing online seem to have changed. I need to make the gift shop, a web 2.0 cool beta social destination of networking. But the question is, can a web 2.0 cool beta social destination of networking actually sell gifts just like an ordinary online gifts shop with great quality customer service, state of the art pricing and really good inventory? Nope! have a look around these web 2.0 things and 90% of them don’t even know how and if they are going to make any money. If you are not as big as myspace or youtube - you’d be a very lucky to even make a few hundred dollars a month with a web 2.0 site.

So I was thinking about it, and it hit me - you don’t have to be web 2.0 to utilize the “social internet”’s enormous potential as a branding and marketing tool, Which is why - right here - I am going to chart down an agenda on how I am going to go about using the world of the second generation of the internet to promote and raise awareness about an good old web 1.0 online shop.
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WordPress v2.0.7 released within 10 days of v2.0.6 - new security fixes

…And I started this blog only a week ago with 2.0.5! This is just not right. I should have had at least one chance to upgrade to 2.0.6 first - never mind the security flaws.

Anyway, I’m off to the wordpress download site.

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Microsoft to release intel compatible office for mac soon (screenshots)…

Scott McNulty of the unofficial apple weblog, was recently at macworld and where Microsofters gave him access to screenshots of the next Microsoft Office for mac - Office 2008.

Office 2008 comes with what M$ calls “my day” - a control center for managing all your tasks, appointments and stuff. Yeah right, Like I would actually pay micro$soft and replace iCal. I don’t think so!

Nonetheless, This is big news, because I was starting to think Microsoft wasn’t planning to release a new office version for the mac. I used to run office on my powerbook, but ever since I shifted to the intel-based macbook, I am stuck with neo-office (a modded open-office version for mac). Rosetta just doesn’t like running office on my intel powered mac. I admit, Microsoft does make good office suites, when I run office 2007 on windows, I want something like that on the mac - even if all that I am going to do with it is open excel documents.

Office 2008 screenshots

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