Clickbank has recently revamped their analytics report. The most important new feature from an affiliate marketer’s point of view is the analytics on how many times the order form has been visited from the merchant/vendor page. Instead of blindly believing that the vendor page has a high conversion rate (as most vendors claim they do), this information gives affiliates some clue in determing how many people are actually interested in buying and how many had acually went ahead and bought it.
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Archives for July 2009
Microsoft And Yahoo Reach Search Deal Agreement
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
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New Mozilla Firefox 4 User Interface Theme Mockup
Firefox 4 might end up having a new user interface according to these mockups.
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The Linux Foundation Visa Credit Card
How does having Tux the Linux Penguin sitting on your credit card sounds like?
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Apple Macbook Touch Tablet
According to the Financial Times, which quotes sources close to the company, Apple is hoping to launch a tablet computer this September. Although details of the device, jokingly dubbed the MacBook Touch, remain scarce, the Financial Times reports that it will have a 10in screen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to download e-books as well as music, which would pitch it in direct competition with Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader.
China’s Twitter = TaoTao
Since Facebook, Plurk and Twitter are all banned in China, you might ask if there’s a place where Chinese go to share their online status. Worry not, there’s at least TaoTao, China’s version of Twitter, created by the popular china software maker 腾讯 (who created the most widely used instant messaging software in China – QQ).
Books Warren Buffett Recommends Every Investors Should Read
What books does the world’s greatest investor Warren Buffett really reads and recommends that every wise investors should read as well? I was able to find 3 which were explicity mentioned by Warren Buffett himself that they were of good reference and by reading reader’s reviews on books written about Warren Buffett.
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Street Fighter 4 + Ryu Ultimate Combo Video
This is the best compilation of Ryu’s combo moves I’ve seen. If you’ve played street fighter before, you wouldn’t want to miss watching this.
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Amazon Acquires Zappos
This is probably the biggest news in affiliate marketing and retail of the year. Zappos has signed a definitive agreement in which all of the existing shareholders and investors of Zappos will be exchanging their Zappos stock for Amazon stock. Once the exchange is done, Amazon will become the only shareholder of Zappos stock (subject to government approval). Based on Amazon’s closing price of $88.79 (as of July 22, 2009), the deal is valued at about $927.9 million.
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Sharepoint Developer Gets Good Money
I’ve been monitoring online jobs websites in the IT category since a year ago and there’s only 2 things I can observe happening again and again.
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