"Actually I wasn't commenting on all affiliate marketers, or even some -- i.e. those that practice the art and science thereof.
I was merely referring to the general practice of affiliate marketing.
It doesn't matter if you're promoting Wedding BonBons, Garden Shears, or Internet Marketing eBooks, Autoresponders, Membership Sites or what have you.
If you get a cut of the sale, its really no different than commissioned sales. Its one thing to develop a sense of trust over time, but for many of these individuals, there is absolutely no sense of integrity as to when the shameless promotion begins." - Tony Hung
Or maybe Sorbet Capital just doesn't have a website, since I can't find them on Google. Ha ha -- if you can't be found on Google are you effectively "off the internet"? - Tony Hung
when we hit page 1 of digg and had about 800 diggs on a story we published. The traffic took down the dedicated high end server for a few minutes. This was less than 3 months into the life of the blog that will be one year old this week. - Rodney Rumford
haven't been able to get it to work. it installs fine, but when i open the "friend feed importer console", after a few seconds it displays a bunch of errors ...via AlertThingy - David Adam
I'll try installing it on a clean machine and see what happens... I might have a missing dependency - engtech
Ah, it breaks on machines that don't have the HOME environment variable set. I'll release a fix. - engtech
w00t it works :) Installed fine, and is currently doing its thing. Thanks a bunch I was just thinking the other day how useful a tool like this would be. Whats it mean when it says "Can't find social graph" though? ...via AlertThingy - David Adam
I put more discussion about the social graph stuff in the blog post. I'm using XFN/FOAF stuff to find the connections between people... doesn't always work well. - engtech
it is running now but is there a way to produce a simple output instead of subscribing? I am now subsribing to some people I really did not want to subscribe to. ;) or better, if that thing could just produce two lists (twitter friend / friend feed twitter list) i could do a very neat comparison in excel myself. ;) - Nicole Simon
hm okay. ran it but have no idea if it aborted or not, but given the amount of friends i haev in both, it seems like it. a pause button at the end might be a good idea. :) waiting for the next version. ;) - Nicole Simon
superb! If only it was a web service.... - David Bausola
I think that would yield more churn than I'd want to handle. I'll have a smaller, more intimate list on FF than Twitter. The services aren't equivalent. - Chris Baskind
Unfortunately, many organizations are "crazy" in this way. Perhaps they don't announce problems because they don't have fixes for them yet. I wish more companies were proactive, even if they just said "we don't know what's causing the problem, and we don't know when it can be fixed, but yes there's a problem." - Ontario Emperor
Funny thing is that's a completely pre-web way of handling this . What's Twitter about? Its about real-time communication. It'd be nice if we heard anything resembling real time updates as to what's been borked... and not a "we're trying to fix things guys" about 16 hours ago (via @twitter_updates) ... not saying they owe anyone anything -- but this has been going on for about a day. Which is like a week in non-Twitter time. :) - Tony Hung
Certainly some more openness would be ideal. What is the ideal time between status updates on a free, non-critical application such as Twitter? Updates every 3 hours? - Ontario Emperor
@OntarioEmperor -- really, as often as is needed, as they ought to be leaving something up on their blog to start off with that would answer a lot of questions. Dreamhost, for example, borks up from time to time, but they *always* have status updates http://www.dreamhoststatus.com, and they always allow people to rant (and rave) as they need to in the comments. - Tony Hung
I have friendfeed running in Prism. Firefox is my default browser. I click a link in friendfeed and it opens in a new tab in firefox. Automagically. - Slippy Lane
