Affiliate software makes it easy to gather market research data, lower your risk profile, and have an easy to use centralized advertisement tracking system.

Think of words associated with large untargeted traffic streams as being the new poison words, especially if you use contextual advertising.

List of some common internal site structure errors, offering solutions to cure many of the problems.

If you are considering selling a site make sure you are aggressive with your monetization strategy prior to selling.

And hopefully some more time to blog :) This week we re-organized our team so that we could better serve the needs of our internal and external partners and customers. I won't bore you with the details but it has a pretty major impact on what I do and the kinds of information I want; so I figured this was a great opportunity to share. My new job is focused on Developer Division (which includes designers) Platform Strategy. My new team is 100% focused on making sure we build the best possible products for the market place. We get to understand the trends, the big picture, the little picture, customer needs, partner needs, and partner deeply with the engineering teams run by Scott Guthrie (NDP) and Eric Zocher (Designer) to help ensure that the...(read more)

Just a quick update to let you know the work for the IE6 VPC has been mostly completed. We're down to the last few steps, and I hope to have it out by the end of the week. Before we release it, I'll be testing it on the PC, and I also want to test it on VPC for the Mac, as I heard a few people say it wouldn't work there. It'll be pretty much the same as last time, though I had to create a new image, I did manage to get it a hair smaller. It'll have about a 4 month time bomb on it again, and the same EULA. Feel free to make any other requests and I'll see what I can do, but no promises! Read More......(read more)

Lotusphere Comes to You is a series of events that bring practical information to customers. Some of the topics you will learn more about: insight into collaboration tools and technology, how to stretch your current Lotus software investment, how IBM products provides for better collaboration and more productivity.

Next week I will be speaking in Seattle on 20th, and Portland on the 22nd. ?I hope to see some of you there, please don't be shy and say hello.

Agenda:
8:00 am – 9:00 am ? ? ? ? Registration / Partner Showcase Opportunity
9:00 am – 10:15 am ? ? ? ? Welcome / Keynote Address
10:15 am – 10:30 am ? ? ? ? Break/ Partner Showcase
10:30 am – 11:30 am ? ? ? ? IBM Notes & Domino: A Look Ahead
11:30 am – 12:30 pm ? ? ? ? Breakout Session 1
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm ? ? ? ? Lunch/ Partner Showcase Opportunity
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ? ? ? ? Breakout Session 2 ?
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm ? ? ? ? Break/ Partner Showcase
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm ? ? ? ? Breakout Session 3
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm ? ? ? ? Closing Statements/ Adjournment

Agenda for Business Track
Session 1 Social Networking Services - Ready for Business with IBM capabilities
Session 2 The Lotus Software Strategy for Team Collaboration and Document Management
Session 3 Introducing IBM WebSphere Portal Express 6: New Portal and Collaboration for Small and Medium Business

Agenda for Technical Track
Session 1 Activity Centric Computing - Getting Work Done
Session 2 IBM WebSphere Portal 6 Technical Overview
Session 3 IBM Lotus Sametime Technical Architecture and Beyond

Latest release of Ext now has some new Form elements we can use with Domino, such as the DatePicker.

Borland has always been cool. Check this out http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07 A free 5 day virtual conference. See you there ! Read More......(read more)

A high-level look at the architectures that support OpenLaszlo applications will be given next week (March 20) at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East by Adam Wolff, chief software architect of Laszlo Systems. In addition to demonstrations of some high-profile examples on the web today, Wolff will build a fairly complete example application from scratch. He'll also examine the workings of OpenLaszlo 4.0, which allows developers to create DHTML or Flash from a single source code base.

A Cardinal recently said the Antichrist will be a pacifist.

I haven't had any time to play with the Notes 8 beta client yet, but I was reading through the Reviewer's Guide and saw this part on web service consumers in Notes 8:

Lotus Notes and Domino 8 add Web services consumer support, allowing you to call Web services hosted elsewhere. A Web services consumer does not use a Web service design element, because these are used only for publishing Web services. Instead, a Web services consumer uses a special kind of script library (either LotusScript or Java). To call the Web service, an agent or other code must "use" that script library.

In the examples they have, it looks like you just:

• Import the WSDL of the web service you want to call into a Java or LotusScript Script Library
• The "stub" code for calling the web service will be generated for you as a class
• You can then call the class methods from anywhere you can include the script library -- agents, actions, etc.

So your call to a web service that gets a stock quote might look like this:

Use "StockQuote WebService Library"

Sub Click (Source As Button)
    Dim q As New StockQuoteClass()
    Messagebox "Current IBM stock price is: " & q.GetQuote("IBM")
End Sub

Looks nice and easy. I can't wait to try it out.

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I was talking to some co-workers recently about what works and what doesn't as far as platform technologies on the Internet. Why did something like WAIS and FTP die out but http and RSS succeed? The answer is not 100% clear to me... So I am coming to you! I am gather a list of failed Internet technologies and why. I want to include both MS and non-MS technologies. Please comment on this post or send me an email. thanks for your help! Read More......(read more)

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The wait is over! ? You can now download the Notes/Domino 8 public beta and start using the amazing new Notes client (and Domino server).

Make sure to also download the Reviewer's Guide to help you get started, and please participate in the Feedback Forum.

Finally, now that you can get your hands on the code, expect me to start sharing more tips/information about Notes 8! ? (along with many other bloggers)

What are you waiting for.... go get the code!

Analysts call search a major upheaval in the media world, which appears revolutionary in magnitude.

Early returns from search ad agencies using Yahoo's new ad platform show improvement, but it's still too early to declare it a winner.

At SES London last month, search providers and agencies discussed the latest happenings in paid search.

Found in the search marketing forums: Is the SEO Industry About to Collapse?; March 2007 Google SERP Changes; The Problem(s) With Social Media Traffic; and more.