My pal Jim Kukral made this vid about a Bratz doll that his daughter received for Christmas. I just hope Mary Hudson is able to make it through the marketing messages and find her own inner beauty when she gets of “doll age.”
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Amen…
“Most of all this is a movie about how the young’uns have no tools for moral discourse and that all they can do is utter banalities and take endless pictures of each other and record their lives for no apparent purpose.”
Cloverfield is a fantastic movie for all the wrong reasons and makes you scratch your eyeballs/head/logic and reconsider who you’d go back for. Go see it for your own benefit and realize what Abrams, etc are trying to express.
Heading to Affiliate Summit on Feb 24-26 at the Rio Hotel (as you should be)? Have a Mac? Still haven’t booked a hotel room?
Then this little desktop widget is for you:
Las Vegas Travel Widget… Get travel deals on Las Vegas, Reno Nevada and Lake Tahoe. Select on back which feed you want to display. Travel deals from HotelsOnTheStrip.com which searches 28 sites using the Travelocity search engine.
Tony Hung has a tremendous reminder / tip / must-do if you’re running a blog on WordPress:
If you’re running WordPress, unless you’ve already locked down your Wp-content folder with some .htaccess fixes, you may not notice that your Wp-content/plugins folder is naked and bare to the world. That is, navigate to http://www.yourblogname.com/wp-content/plugins and you may find a directory listing of your plugins folder, files and all. How do you fix it? Easy. Just upload an empty index.html into the wp-content/plugins folder and its all fixed.
(Via Deep Jive Interests.)
I’ve teamed up with Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins to form GeekCast.fm which will be a podcast and video show aggregator for our projects as well as select others.
I’ve been doing the daily 22 minute AffiliateFortuneCookies podcast which you can find there as well as Shawn and Lisa Picarille’s AffiliateThing and Jim Kukral’s Daily Flip vidcast and VideoNinjas podcast with Magnify.net’s Steve Rosenbaum.
We’re also doing a weekly flagship show called GeekCast Gang where we’ll be discussing various issues in online marketing, video, mobile, affiliate, search, etc. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Should be a fun venture! The first episode of GeekCast Gang is below. You can grab the feed and subscribe in iTunes or your podcast player of choice here.
http://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P15a926455cc49bb2d23bf20cb2f30520Yl9wRVREYmB9&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=CCFF33&kc=FFCC33&bc=FFFFFF&brand=1&player=ap28
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Awesome.
Then came this gem: In the mid-80s, tired of getting Hunter S. Thompson’s column copy late, by snail-mail, the editors of the San Francisco Examiner took the plunge and sent Thompson a new gizmo called a “Mac.” The relationship between the fabled journalist and his electronic tool was reportedly troubled from the beginning. It ended shortly thereafter, when Thompson called his editor screaming in frustration, grabbed his shotgun, and blasted the youthful Steve Jobs’s creation to smithereens. Then he sent back the pieces.
Silicon Alley Insider: Hunter S. Thompson Reviews Apple’s New Mac
Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and I discuss political affiliate programs, what we hope to do with GeekCast.fm, problems the affiliate networks aren't solving and innovation in the affiliate space.
Brian Chappell over at MarketingPilgrim has a list of 75 or so internet marketing professionals actively using Twitter. If you’re new or old to Twitter this is a nice resource:
Many underground conversations go on within Twitter that never make it to the blogosphere or news sites. It can be a dynamite location for link bait ideas, breaking stories, and general topics you might not think about on a daily basis. You might even find yourself obtaining clientèle through it. I really could go on and on with what you could do with Twitter.
As an aside, over on my personal blog (?), I made some remarks about how Twitter has changed since the “good old days.”
According to Mark Meckler at the Digital Moses Confidential, TheUseful has settled with the Florida Attorney General’s office for a cool million:
In a press release eerily similar to that issued by Azoogle upon its settlement and million dollar payment to the Florida Attorney General, The Useful / World Avenue USA has announced that the Florida Office of Attorney General has closed its investigation into the company’s activities and will be dismissing its lawsuit.
Watch the way you use the term “free” in Florida, folks.