Cribbed Content for August 15th
Friday
Aug 15, 2008
it’s been a crazy week, but a lot has been going on in the business world (not to mention my world lol)
- CVS Pharmacy bought small California chain Longs Drugs this week for $2.9 billion. Growing up with Longs, I’ll miss seeing the name around but they’re not one of the better stores so I don’t see it as a loss.
- AOL jumped into life streaming with their acquisition of Social Thing this week as well. I’ve never used Social Thing much, but I definitely won’t use it if it just gets pulled into their system.
- Affiliate Summit East 2008 in Boston wrapped up – I’m slowly getting all of my coverage posted. The next time I go to the show I hope to have a better laptop with a better battery and better wireless card so I can blog from the sessions instead of taking notes and blogging later. So much for live & current coverage!
That’s really about it this week since I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention to antyhing outside of the summit. I did pick up some good tools, so the Free Toolsday column should be back soon!
Free Toolsday for April 22nd
Tuesday
Apr 22, 2008
Hi, you’ve reached my blog. I’m not here right now; I’m at the dentist getting my teeth checked diligently. I haven’t left you with nothing… you get today’s free tool!
A great tool that I’ve been using for years is Trillian. My first computer was a Compaq laptop with an 8 gigabyte hard drive (this was less than 10 years ago – scary) and the more stuff I saved to my hard drive and programs installed the less everything ran smoothly. So I happened across Trillian – a great all-in-one program that allows you to run AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and Google Talk/Jabber. You can also run IRC chat rooms through it.
The free service is great. It allows for everything except advanced Audio & Video capabilities. There is a pro version that’s $25, which is a decent price for as much as I use it. My only beef with it is that the A/V engine is touch & go, so sometimes I still can’t use the webcam features.
Having one program is way better than having to toggle several different clients, and makes you much more accessible for your contacts across multiple networks. And it’s fully customizable with different skins and plugins. It really is one messenger to rule them all!
Cribbed Content for March 14
Friday
Mar 14, 2008
A ton of stuff has gone on this week in the world of online & affiliate marketing. It’s pandemonium.
- Sam Harrelson stepped down just last night as publisher of ReveNews, a group blog about online revenue news. I’m bummed as I just started reading and I quite enjoy Sam’s take, but I know I’ll be keeping in touch with his endeavors via Twitter and FriendFeed and some other venues. Good luck, Sam!
- The EU approved the acquisition of online marketing company DoubleClick by Google. But if you’re a faithful reader of this blog, you already knew that.
- AOL announced the acquisition of social network Bebo. Bebo is big overseas, which is probably why you haven’t heard of it.
- Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney is being a smug bastard after his mac mishap. 55 comments on this blog entry, basically all of which are asking for a hand out. I’d ask too, but who the hell am I?
- Shawn Collins just posted a link to an article he wrote called Affiliate Marketing is Dead. He talks about the innovation of video and mobile affiliate marketing. Video I can get behind, but mobile seems entirely too intrusive and scares the bejesus out of me.
The end of the week has really slowed down in terms of business news. So I’ll leave you with this – go to GeekCast.fm and listen to the Geek Cast with Sam Harrelson, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral, and Lisa Picarille. Hilarity & relevancy collide, I promise you.
