What is Qik ?

Qik is a little piece of software that lets you stream video live from your cell phone to the web, where your audience can chat back in real time to your device’s screen while you broadcast. With Qik, you can share with anyone and everyone what’s going on anywhere and everywhere you go. Click here to signup and start sharing live videos with your friends and family.

So, would you want your Qik followers to know exacly where you’re streaming from ?

Take a look at Kevin Rose’s video regarding the Qik version for App Store:

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.

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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.

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.

The two companies are in final negotiations, althought it could take a couple of weeks before it closes. Most of Digg’s revenue comes from a three year ad deal with Microsoft, which will be terminated on a sale to Google.

Meanwhile, users continue to digg for fresh articles.

Photo by Sparrow*

1. Firebug - Allows you complete control over site’s CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Some additional plugins for Firebug is YSlow (for measuring site performance) and Rainbow (JavaScript code highlighting).

2. SearchStatus - Allows easy access to valuable site information like Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank

3. Foxmarks - Service that allows Bookmark synchronization. Meaning where ever I go, I can have my firefox bookmarks with me. I use this plugin for almost 1 year and i never had problems with my bookmarks. Slow and easy to use.

4. Google Global - Allows me to search Google as if I were in different countries.

5. Google Notebook - You can put down some thaughts, notes and excerpts while browsing.

6. IE Tab - Gives you the possibility to view the site in Internet Explorer.

7. Screen grab! - Saves a web page or a portion of it as an image.

8. Weave - It’s almost the same as Foxmarks (3) . It can save bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies and filled form data - practically everything you might need.

9. SEO for Firefox - gets SEO related information for sites (like nofollow tags and search result links).

The party will take place downtown Orlando at Wall Street Cantina, at 8pm. The party is totally free so you don’t have to worry about that, just go there and have some fun.

IZEA two-year anniversary party!
Wall Street Cantina
19 N Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801
Wednesday, July 2nd from 8pm ’til….
- FREE admission
- FREE food
- FREE drink

Happy Birthday guys!

-John is teaching us how to get a girlfriend, actually he know there are a lot of geeks around here and it won’t be a bad thing to let them know that having somebody by your side is a good thing.
- The Affiliate Market has always been a highly attractive endeavor, that’s why Shawn is telling us about a study on affiliate marketing that indicates online marketers will spend a lot of money in this area.
- Yaro Starak is showing us how a customer service system should evolve.
- Are you really an entrepreneur ? That is what Rich Schefren asks us. It’s an interesting article because most online marketers can more accurately explain what a medical doctor is than an entrepreneur, even though they aspire to be one.
- David Peralty wrote an article regarding the ways to get more exposure in the blogosphere. One of the most important conditions to get known is to make friends and to attend events. Good Job David!
- I think every blogger is trying to make money by selling ad space. You have to agree with me that attracting quality advertisers to your blog is very hard. Read an interesting article written by Adnan regarding the ways to attract advertisers to your site/blog.
- Understanding your visitors mentality is very important. Why do they arrive at your website? How do they arrive? What are they looking for? What will make-or-break their visit? What will make them come back? Vandelay is telling us how to understand our visitors mentality. A high-quality article!

Today is the official launch date for Firefox 3, and the Mozilla foundation is trying to set a Guinness world record for the most downloaded software in a single day. Interesting! Don’t hessitate and download Firefox 3, you’ll love it because is the fastest browser out there!