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  • Malware and Spam Thrives in U.S. and China

    According to a recent report titled “Security Threat Report 2007” released by Sophos, an IT security firm, the U.S. and China host the most sites containing malware and relay the most spam.

  • BBC and Google Get More Comfortable

    When unlicensed videos appear on a big online video site, the word “lawsuit” usually comes to mind. But in the case of the BBC and Google Video, the ending looks to be a lot happier, and a lot less legally sticky.

  • MySpace Sues the

    Scott Richter has been accused of being one of the world’s top three spammers and holds the auspicious moniker of the “Spam King.” He is also being used by the king of the social networking world, News Corp.’s MySpace.

  • Google Looking to Invade Video Games

    Google has a stranglehold on the search engine realm, and consequently dominates Internet advertising, but the company is not satisfied with that. In recent times, Google has been making progress in its print, radio, and even…

  • Affiliate Summit Roundup

    This week, the fastest growing tradeshow that many have not heard of took place in Las Vegas. As was the case last year, and the year before that and perhaps at every show they’ve organized, this year’s show sold out. Several of…

  • MySpace Makes A Statement

    Those in the Web 2.0 world know Michael Arrington. The affiliate world has no direct equivalent, but one of its larger than life personalities, Jon F***** (he doesn’t like his last named shared), founder of Wicked Fire Forums, had site…

  • My Favorite Session at Affiliate Summit West: The Confluence of Search and Affiliate Marketing by Kris from Pepperjam

    I apologize for not posting frequent, live Affiliate Summit West event coverage as I meant to. After a late, exhausted arrival I was playing catch up the whole time and didn’t get to blog as much as I’d hoped-I’ll try my best to do a better job of this at future events.

  • Agencies

    Kimberly-Clark, The View Team for Room Makeover Sweeps

    Kimberly Clark and daytime talk show The View are out with a sweepstakes awarding free room makeovers worth $25,000 each.

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    Ace Hardware Offers Store Ownership in Contest

    Ace Hardware is out with a national contest that offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to compete to win their own store, valued at $1 million.

  • Birth of a Marketplace

    To balance out this week’s Digital Thoughts, where we look at the incredibly non-direct marketing world of MySpace and YouTube, in this week’s Trends Report, we focus closer to our roots by looking at a company that has come a…