Archive for September, 2008:
Over 1 million RSS subscribers for TechCrunch
According to Michael Arrington, one of TechCrunch’s editors, their site reached over 1 million average daily readers to their RSS feed. Sounds good, huh? They achieved this awesome milestone in 39 months (a little over three years).
Like most blogs, we continue to provide all of our content in full in the feed even though it means less visitors to the site and less page views. If someone takes the time to add us to their reader, I consider them to be among our most loyal readers even if they never actually visit our site.
Chocolate Pipe Dream, your chocolate dream
Chocolate Pipe Dream is a site that provides delicious aromatic Belgian Chocolate Fountains Hire throughout Essex and the South East of England. Whether it’s a luxurious Belgian milk Chocolate Fountain for your Wedding in Essex or a 50″ White Belgian Chocolate Fountain for your corporate event in London.
If you are looking to impress, want all your guests to have fun, what better way to get the conversation going than by hiring a Chocolate Fountain from Chocolate Pipe Dream. All their Chocolate Fountain Hire Packages include a fully trained operator, dipping foods, delicious Belgian Chocolate of your choice, skewers, napkins and an illuminated perspex table surround which creates extra wow factor.
Chocolate Pipe Dream also have one of the largest Chocolate Fountains standing at 50″ tall, you will see from all our different Chocolate Fountain Hire Packages that we have many different options to cater for large or small events.
Commission Junction Settlement - Does CJ owe you money?
Important Legal Notice Regarding Commission Junction’s Affiliate Network
If you joined or were a member of the affiliate marketing networks operated by ValueClick, Inc., Commission Junction, Inc. and/or Be Free (collectively, “Defendants”), between April 20, 2003 and the present, you may be a class member in Settlement Recovery Center et al. v. ValueClick, Inc. et al., No. 2:07-cv-02638-FMC-CTx, a lawsuit which is pending in the Central District of California. The Settlement Notice informs you of the Court’s certification of a class for settlement purposes; the nature of the claims alleged; your right to participate in, or exclude yourself from, the class; a proposed settlement; and how you can claim an award of advertising credits under the settlement or object to the settlement.
The proposed settlement will resolve claims that Defendants failed to adequately monitor Commission Junction’s Network for the use by third parties of software that does not comply with Commission Junction’s (“CJ”) Publisher Code of Conduct and that is intended to steal or divert commissions from publishers on CJ’s network (“Non-compliant Software”), failed to adequately monitor or prevent third parties from engaging in the theft or “hijacking” of commissions from Advertisers and Publishers on CJ’s Network, and failed to make sufficient disclosures regarding the existence of Non-compliant Software and commission theft, resulting in losses to both advertisers and publishers on the CJ Network.
The proposed settlement will provide a monetary recovery to eligible class members. For class members that currently maintain an account on the CJ Network will receive payment through payments or credits deposited or applied to their CJ accounts; eligible class members that no longer have accounts on the Commission Junction Network will receive a check for an equal amount.
http://www.cjsettlement.com/
According to this postcard i received today in my mailbox, CJ is having serious legal problems. Their system has allowed comissions to be hijacked or stolen which ultimately lead to lost comissions for both advertisers and publishers. The official hearing starst January, 2009 and they’re supposedly going to pool out $1,000,000 to all of its members or old members that could have been effected. The affiliates who earn the most will most likely get the highest payouts.
My opinion? Well, i don’t think a lot of it to be honest with you. I’ve been a CJ affiliate for quite some time now and run their ads on a couple of sites. They have been honest with me and paid out the amounts they owe. The reason why people are going after them is because they’re one of the best affiliate networks on the internet and are the most popular.
