Last night, like many of us, I learned of Steve Jobs’ death on a device that he helped invent. My IPAD 2, given to me by the kind folks at XY7.com popped an alert saying that he had died. I should say that it’s actually my almost-two year olds’ IPAD because he uses it as much as anyone. That in itself has to be a testimony to the innovation of APPLE and its product: that an 18-month year old boy can use an IPAD2 to play games, read books and interact with his parents (and grand-parents!) on a web camera.  The death of Steve Jobs actually touched me, almost as much as the death of Isaac Asimov in 1992. Perhaps that is in itself poignant, as many of the things that Asimov predicted in his books in the 1940’s became true because of Steve Jobs.  Whatever the reason was, I started to think about Steve Jobs and how Performance and Affiliate Marketers can learn from this man.

http://performinsider.com/2011/10/what-can-we-learn-from-steve-jobs/

According to an article by Pace Lattin, ClickBank JV Products are basically dead. Interestingly enough if you read the comments, you’ll also notice that many people are pointing that many marketers are just going to leave ClickBank and do it on their own.

“I’m curious as to whether or not any pressure was put on the bigger JV brokers themselves? I’ve seen a few marketers that typically would go thru ClickBank and the usual JV brokers that:
1. Aren’t selling their newest product through ClickBank
2. Aren’t going through the usual JV Broker channels.”

Performance Marketing Insider first revealed about the upcoming Facebook Want button which will be one of the best tools for internet marketers and targeting. This button will allow people to tell their friends about products they are interested in, and in theory then allow better targeting of those users.

Been coming a long time: HitPath pissed off the industry by not only suing a competitor, but suing four networks that left to go to a competitor. HitPath claims that the competitor when helping the networks to move, had access to information they weren’t entitled to. Cake on the other hand claims that HitPath is just upset that they are losing clients to Cake. Who is right? Read the article and my opinion. HitPath vs. Cake

From my article on Technorati

Since I wrote that HuffPost was going to doom AOL, the blogosphere has been abuzz with a part of the article that wasn’t supposed to get that much attention. That part of the article was about Michael Arrington calling Huffington herself, “pathetic.” While it wasn’t supposed to be the main part of the article, I have been told that Huffington was quite peeved that it was picked up by Foxnewsand used by the right-wing to attack her.

My first front page (and main story) on Technorati!

The First Court of Appeals has reached a decision that would allow the general public to video-tape police officers while they are working. This decision comes right after several well-known public cases have come to light involving citizens being arrested for video-taping police.

Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/article/federal-courts-rule-it-is-not/#ixzz1WtLhw2fH

Article I wrote for Business 2 Community, documenting the connection between Walmart and the Affiliate Taxes. I’ve written a few of these articles, and since their publication more and more has been revealed about Walmart and their desire to pretend to want to help small businesses.

If you are in any of the Affiliate Tax battleground states, you’ve probably seen the commercials. Someone representing a small business in those States gets on TV and claims that affiliate taxes are necessary to “protect small businesses against the onslaught of Amazon.” Behind these commercials is a political action committee and lobbying organization called “The Mainstreet Alliance” which claims to be a network of “state-based small businesses.” They have been in every State that has tried to pass Affiliate taxes, which levy taxes against internet realtors based on bounty-relationships with affiliates. While they claim to be promoting small businesses, they are heavily backed by the biggest retailer in the United States, Wal-Mart