Bogus Diet Patch Company Gets Away By Blaming Affiliates

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Affiliates Who Go Bad

Affiliates Who Go Bad 11/03/2002 06:17 AM
When affiliates become over zealous.

What do Affiliates Want?

What do Affiliates Want? 08/16/2004 06:32 AM
Simple question with very complex answers.

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity

Blaming The Mobile Phone For Economic
Troubles, Stupidity 09/10/2004 10:43 AM
Someone who prefers to be anonymous sent in this opinion piece, supposedly written by an economics professor at Kyoto University looking at the troubles in the Japanese economy over the last thirteen years and then, at the very end, blaming it all on mobile phones. The article looks at consumer electronics, the entertainment industry and the automobile industry, but then shifts gears to look at mobile phones, noting that even while mobile phone sales are "booming," it's done nothing to help the economy. Then, the professor points out that so much mobile phone use is leading to high bills which "dampen household spending" (assuming, of course, that "household spending" doesn't include mobile phone bills). Then, even though he has already complained that entertainment revenues are down because there aren't "sufficient" services to provide them, he complains that Japanese young people are "wasting hours each day" text messaging and playing online games. Finally, he concludes: "The cell phone is the cause of the business slowdown as well as the erosion in young people's intelligence and scholastic abilities." So, basically, it sounds like the thesis is that spending on mobile phone service is somehow "bad" because it takes away from other spending, which is somehow "good." Seems a bit hard to back up.

Blaming the arrangement of the Titanic's
deck chairs for its sinking

Blaming the arrangement of the Titanic's
deck chairs for its sinking 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
In a much ballyhooed essay, Clay Shirky suggests that social software bears some of the responsibility for Dean's loss in Iowa and New Hampshire. David Weinberger, who has a good looking new blog at Corante, thinks the idea is dangerous speculation at best, and perhaps nonsense at worst. I agree. Blaming social software for Dean's loss is like is blaming the arrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic for its sinking. Most Americans still get the vast majority of their news from TV, and I think you have to look first at the idiotic and sometimes vitriolic press coverage of Dean (build him up so you can beat him down, "is he electable", the scream, etc.), plus Dean's own stumbles, for reasons for the failure of his insurgent campaign to do as well as the media predicted he would. Occam's Razor would suggest that is sufficient....

"blaming Bill Gates for making his
computer suck"

"blaming Bill Gates for making his
computer suck" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

What now Pharm Affiliates?

What now Pharm Affiliates? 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
"60 performing sites down the tubes. Man I love this business. It's always a roller-coaster ride."

iTunes Affiliates

iTunes Affiliates 09/10/2004 05:14 AM
I have to say I’m a tad underwhelmed by the iTunes Affiliate Scheme. This site got turned down for one of the following reasons :

• The content is unrelated to iTunes
• Your site is temporarily down or under construction.
• A wrong or misspelled URL given in the application.
• Your site is aesthetically unpleasing
• Your site promotes tobacco, alcohol or excessive drinking/drug use
• Your site contains extreme religious content
• Your site is international (with a majority of visitors based OUTSIDE the US)

I’m pretty sure this site fails on the last one (hopefully no-one considers this site to be ‘aesthetically unpleasing’ or my writing to induce ‘excessive drug use’). This is a real bummer for those of us outside the US (yep, we don’t all live in America). If there’s one thing that really bugs me about Apple, it’s the blinkers they have when it comes to the rest of the world. It took us long enough to get the iTunes Music Store here in Europe… Anyway, despite the whole non-US thing, the scheme appears to be run by a third party organisation called the LinkShare network. Immediately this is a disappointment as I was expecting the scheme to run within the Apple website (possibly using your Apple ID or .Mac account). I wouldn’t think it’d be too difficult to get some web development people on the case at Apple. After all, Amazon and Google manage to offer nicely integrated affiliate schemes. Once an account has been created (after negotiating a horrendous form on the Apple website), you are sent a barrage of confusing e-mails eventually directing you to the LinkShare website. The e-mails encourage you to join up to Apple iTunes via LinkShare and create your links using their system. After bombing out fairly early I didn’t get the chance the sign up and create some links, so I’d be interested to hear from others who have managed this successfully (I have a feeling the process is not as easy as it should be). I was looking forward to getting some iTunes links on this site (if only to make a few bob on my own purchases), but I’m left feeling disappointed by the whole process. The current LinkShare-powered system only serves to discourage site owners from becoming affiliates — a situation obviously at odds with Apple’s intentions.

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

People are blaming all of the Jew-hatred in Mel Gibson's new movie on the visions of a German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824).  According to this article from Newsday:

The bedridden visionary, who is said to have borne the stigmata and the wounds of the crown of thorns, is a particular source of contention for Gibson because of her depictions of Jews as bloodthirsty and venal. In The Dolorous Passion, for instance, she "sees" Jewish priests passing out bribes to get people to offer false testimony against Jesus and even tipping the Roman executioners. She also describes seeing Jesus' cross being built in the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem.

And Emmerich's 19th-century biographer, the Rev. C.E. Schmoe'ger, wrote about how she had one vision of an "old Jewess Meyr," who confessed to her "that Jews in our country and elsewhere strangled Christian children and used their blood for all sorts of suspicious and diabolical practices."

Gibson, who carries a relic of Emmerich in the form of a faded piece of cloth from her habit, vehemently rejects characterizations of the nun as anti-Semitic.

In other news... I was listening to NPR news a couple of days ago.  All of Haiti's current troubles were being blamed on things that the French did in 1825 and this proposition was discussed seriously for 15 minutes.  Haiti does seem to be in rather tough shape, at least going by the CIA Factbook page:

"About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.  ... The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9% in 2002.  Literacy rate is 53%."

Despite an HIV infection rate of 6.1% and a lot of deaths from AIDS the population is still growing at an annual rate of 1.67%, i.e., there are an ever-increasing number of Haitians to share an ever-smaller pie.  (cf. Malthus)

Perhaps there are more problems in our world of 2004 that can be blamed on those French and Germans who died circa 1825...  Anyone care to suggest some dead Europeans to blame in the comments section?

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq 02/05/2005 09:29 PM

Rony Abovitz blogged that Eason Jordan of CNN accused the U.S. military of murdering journalists in Iraq during a panel at Davos. The official summary does not reflect these comments. Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN journalist who worked for Jordon corroborates the assertion by Abovitz. Little Green Football is tracking this in detail.

UPDATE: A MUST READ update from Rony Abovitz.

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Blaming Anti-Virus Companies For Adding
To Spam Mess

Blaming Anti-Virus Companies For Adding
To Spam Mess 01/29/2004 02:49 AM
I'm sure I'm not the only person who noticed that plenty of the annoying myDoom related messages that found their way into my inbox in the last few days came from anti-virus companies telling me (incorrectly) that I had sent someone a virus. I didn't send anyone the virus. As everyone knows, myDoom works by spoofing the "from" address - just like almost every other virus/worm these days. So, why exactly, do anti-virus companies continue to send out these messages? Found over at Politech is a nice little rant about just how stupid it is that these anti-virus companies are continuing this practice. In fact, the author claims that they're just as bad as spammers. First of all, they know that these viruses and worms are spoofing return addresses - yet they continue to send out such "you've sent a virus" emails, even when they can be pretty sure it's not true. At the very least, they should be smart enough to not send out such a message on viruses that are known to spoof emails. Second, many of these messages include annoying advertising for the anti-virus product itself. Thus, it's unsolicited commercial email advertising - and it even violates the CAN SPAM law by not offering an opt-out. So, from now on, when you get such bogus anti-virus reports, you should report them as spam to the proper authorities.

Non-Performing Affiliates - What To Do
With The DeadBeats?

Non-Performing Affiliates - What To Do
With The DeadBeats? 06/21/2004 08:28 PM
"Our company has a very lucrative affiliate program, and we offer 20% commissions on each referral. We are nearing 150 affiliate members, yet only 2 are bringing in the lionshare of the referrals."

Google - Affiliates - Update

Google - Affiliates - Update 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
"... are going to be making serious serious changes to the whole affiliate merchant via ppc...early reports indicate an "auction" based system where advertisers fight it out on who can bid, and only 1 advertiser per site as such."

Affiliates vs Merchants vs Parasiteware

Affiliates vs Merchants vs Parasiteware 10/20/2002 10:10 PM
The New York times is running a story about Parasiteware and an upcoming meeting between affiliate site operators and merchants: "Early next month, leaders from the Internet's "affiliate marketing" community plan to meet with merchants and vendors of online shopping technology to seek peace after months of sniping."

The Buck Stops … Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan

The Buck Stops … Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan 05/17/2004 10:44 PM

The Buck Stops €¦ Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan

The Buck Stops €¦ Where? - Stop blaming
your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred
Kaplan 05/16/2004 04:58 AM
Bush Didn't Take Out Zarqawi When He Could, Because to Do So Would Have Eliminated One of His Trumped Up Justification for Attacking Iraq. So Then, Is the Blood of Nick Berg on Bush's Hands?

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Overstock com Issues PPC Guidelines For
Affiliates

Overstock com Issues PPC Guidelines For
Affiliates 06/08/2004 06:30 PM
WebProNews,KY-2 hours agoIn what may be a response to Google allowing bidding on trademarked keywords, or merely for the purposes of preserving their trademark, Overstock.com has sent ...

Overstock . com Issues PPC Guidelines
For Affiliates

Overstock . com Issues PPC Guidelines
For Affiliates 06/08/2004 06:30 PM
Internet Search Engine Database-2 hours agoIn what may be a response to Google allowing bidding on trademarked keywords, or merely for the purposes of preserving their trademark, Overstock.com has sent ...

Merchant being Sued for Affiliates Use
of Trade Marks

Merchant being Sued for Affiliates Use
of Trade Marks 07/28/2004 02:56 PM
The sticky legal issues of being a proactive advertising affiliate.

Are eBay Affiliates Spamming Google with
Your Words?

Are eBay Affiliates Spamming Google with
Your Words? 11/02/2003 08:44 AM
Auctionbytes.com Nov 2 2003 7:21AM ET

Tobacco Affiliates Wonder about
Consequences of Mass. Case

Tobacco Affiliates Wonder about
Consequences of Mass. Case 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
"...A mystery is brewing in Massachusetts over how state tax collectors learned the identities of residents who bought cigarettes over the Internet."

Delayed patch ends Microsoft's
patch-free month early

Delayed patch ends Microsoft's
patch-free month early 12/11/2003 12:02 PM
A glitch in Microsoft's Windows Update automated patching service caused a security fix that was released last month to be delivered to computer users on Tuesday, the same day Microsoft proclaimed December would be a patch-free month. The software patch fixes a serious vulnerability in a set of Web site management tools called FrontPage Server Extensions, which are part of Microsoft's Windows 2000, Windows XP and Office XP software, according to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-051 released Nov. 11. Exploiting the flaw could allow an attacker to gain control over a user's PC, Microsoft said.

Mystery patch blots Microsoft's
patch-free month

Mystery patch blots Microsoft's
patch-free month 12/10/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 9:39PM ET

Affordable Internet-Based Product Aids
Mortgage Brokers in Managing Affiliates

Affordable Internet-Based Product Aids
Mortgage Brokers in Managing Affiliates 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
Mortgage brokers can now use the power of the web to more efficiently manage their affiliates, at a surprisingly affordable cost. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Patch Management Best Practice: Patch
Order

Patch Management Best Practice: Patch
Order 08/08/2004 10:48 AM

Income Access Gambling Affiliate Network
Prepares for Profitable Holiday Season
for its Gaming Merchants and Affiliates

Income Access Gambling Affiliate Network
Prepares for Profitable Holiday Season
for its Gaming Merchants and Affiliates 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Income Access and its sponsoring online gaming merchants prepare for unprecedented growth this holiday season with exciting bonus rewards for affiliates. [PRWEB Dec 5, 2004]

Another bogus ad

Another bogus ad 05/25/2004 05:49 PM

Bogus Wuffie

Bogus Wuffie 12/03/2003 11:03 PM
Dave Johnson: Curses, foiled again! Carlos has uncovered my secret plan to embezzle huge amounts of bogus wuffie.

Painkiller Patch v1.2 - Perimeter Patch
v1.01

Painkiller Patch v1.2 - Perimeter Patch
v1.01 06/12/2004 01:55 PM

Microsoft Issues First Patch for Its XP
SP2 Patch

Microsoft Issues First Patch for Its XP
SP2 Patch 08/19/2004 11:35 AM
A number of VPN users have run into problems with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). eWEEK Security Topic Center Editor Larry Seltzer notes that Microsoft already has issued a hot-fix for the problem. Meanwhile, Seltzer debunks Heise Security claims of a security hole in the new file-attachment security feature of SP2.

Bogus-ify your outgoing caller ID

Bogus-ify your outgoing caller ID 08/31/2004 01:06 AM
Xeni Jardin: Ahoy, stalkers, crank yankers, and evil telemarketer scumbags! Beginning this Wednesday, September 1, US-based online company Star38.com will offer paying subscribers a Caller ID falsification service. Make-believe you're the White House! Or 1-800-CALL-ATT! Or, hell, get your '80s on and vamp out in 867-5309! Kevin Poulsen of SecurityFocus tried it out, and evidently the service checked out as providing what it promised. Users complete an online form with phone number, number they want to call, number they want to appear to be calling from; in a couple of seconds, the system rings back to patch them through to their call destination. But, like, in a secret numeric disguise: call recipients see the spoofed number displayed on Caller ID. Link to Register article (via /., which contains some interesting debate from readers over whether or not the system is a truly effective spoofing mechanism)

Bogus barcode blunder

Bogus barcode blunder 01/06/2005 02:15 AM
When people say that crimes does not pay, they truly mean it. Take the latest news about a barcode counterfeit scam that was taking place at Walmart. Sure, that the time I am sure that the folks perpetrating the scam thought they had out smarted the system. In reality, it came back to haunt them though….

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Watch out for bogus invoice man

Watch out for bogus invoice man 06/22/2004 04:30 AM
Summertime and the scammin' is easy

Clamp down on bogus colleges

Clamp down on bogus colleges 06/18/2004 06:17 AM
The government gives details of a new register designed to clamp down on the abuse of the immigration system.

"Plame Scandal Bogus! "

"Plame Scandal Bogus! " 12/04/2003 03:49 AM

Bush's bogus race card

Bush's bogus race card 05/03/2004 04:33 PM

Man Charged With Eating Bogus Check (AP)

Man Charged With Eating Bogus Check (AP) 05/28/2004 05:07 PM
AP - A man suspected of trying to cash a bogus check ate the evidence as Bartlett police officers moved in, and they suspect he's been victimizing people all over the state.

PC orders arrest of bogus Mau Mau
veterans

PC orders arrest of bogus Mau Mau
veterans 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
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Roller 1.1 progress and bogus wuffie

Roller 1.1 progress and bogus wuffie 03/31/2005 12:01 AM

We deployed a beta of Roller 1.1 at blogs.sun.com today, featuring the new built-in "Planet Roller" blogs.sun.com aggregator, which includes both BSC hosted and externally hosted Sun bloggers.

On the planet page, we substitute Technorati rankings (via Te chnorati.java) for the normal hot-blogs listing because we don't track hit counts for external blogs.

And, if you're looking at the Technorati rankings and wondering what a bush-league blogger like me is doing up there with MaryMary and Tim Bray? Well, I'm sorry to say, it's all due to bo gus whuffie. At the time, I actually wrote to the Technorati folks to point out to them that my place in the Technorati 100 was undeserved. They have since rejiggered their formulas (sorry to get so technical) and I'm out of the list, but still highly ranked.

EFF To Proactively Try To Bust Bogus
Patents

EFF To Proactively Try To Bust Bogus
Patents 04/19/2004 04:29 PM
Realizing that any real patent reform is going to take decades, and that everyone is suffering now from bogus patents, it appears that the EFF is setting up a project to try to proactivel y bust bogus patents. It's a great goal, but it remains to be seen how effective they are. Others have tried to do similar things (though, perhaps with different tactics) without much success so far.
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It is Official: PayPal Comes of Age

It is Official: PayPal Comes of Age 01/28/2004 02:32 PM
"PayPal’s revenue increase includes a 49% year-to-year rise in revenue from payment transactions processed for merchants other than eBay.com, a spokeswoman says. "

iTMS via PayPal

iTMS via PayPal 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
The iTunes Music Store now takes PayPal. Now I can start a DropCash campaign to have people buy me music!...

PayPal and iTunes

PayPal and iTunes 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

PayPal and Apple have announced that you can now use your Paypal account to purchase music on the iTunes music store.

Now, when you sign up for a new, free iTunes account and pay with PayPal in the iTunes Music Store, you'll make your online music experience better than ever. And if you're one of the first half million members to do it before March 31st, you'll get five free songs.*

Say what you want about the many iTunes challengers entering the market, but Apple doesn't seem content to sit on their current lead. Adding small features like this every so often only enhances their position.

PayPal Web Services

PayPal Web Services 05/03/2004 03:06 PM
SOAP, WSDL, and cash money

This it not a link to Paypal

This it not a link to Paypal 03/14/2005 06:18 PM
Unless you use a Firefox build from today then this paypal link will look like it's going to Paypal.com, but it'll really go to xn--pypal-4ve.com and not show you. Yikes! It even works with SSL (just another one for showing that SSL as an authenticator is a waste of time. Dear browser vendors, please stop the certificate insanity). Read more...

Fraud with Paypal

Fraud with Paypal 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

I have been using Paypal for quite a long time and luckily everyone that I have done business with has had a legitimate account. I am sure at some point I will get one of these messages , I just hope it isn't for a very high amount. [Intutive.Com ]

PayPal gives credit

PayPal gives credit 06/25/2004 01:42 PM

PayPal IPN Agent 1.0.2

PayPal IPN Agent 1.0.2 07/27/2004 09:21 PM
An agent which validates and stores PayPal IPNs.

New PayPal Fee Structure

New PayPal Fee Structure 07/07/2004 07:33 PM
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PayPal Monitor v2.1.0

PayPal Monitor v2.1.0 12/31/2004 11:05 AM
PayPal Monitor hides down in your System Tray and polls PayPal for new transactions in your account. When it sees a new transaction, you get an instant alert to that transaction. Restore PayPal Monitor to your desktop and get a running total of all the transactions in your summary view. [Shareware $9.95 2.4 MB]

Paypal problems

Paypal problems 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
Can you connect to paypal.com? We haven't been able to reach the site for the past two days. However, others...

Minty Scheme

Minty Scheme 08/14/2004 02:58 PM
Initial Prerelease

RFC: feed URI scheme

RFC: feed URI scheme 12/29/2003 02:49 PM
Dare Obasanjo has published a pre-draft of a spec for the “feed” URI scheme and is requesting comments.

+1 for Feed URI Scheme

+1 for Feed URI Scheme 01/22/2004 02:12 AM

On the issue of whether to introduce a new URI scheme to allow one-click feed subscription, in spite of W3C Technical Architecture Group's position against new URI schemes, I am adding my vote to Dare Obasanjo's proposal which is already in fairly wide use.  While I understand W3C TAG's position, a less than ideal solution is better than expecting the world to accept the right solution.

If you are unfamiliar with this issue, Jon Udell has a post with links and words.

Update:

I should note that neither schemes address the need to support multiple aggregators at the same time.  I thought about writing a general feed subscription management plugin for IE but haven't found the time yet.

Docklands set for £2bn scheme

Docklands set for £2bn scheme 02/14/2004 08:03 PM
British Waterways is seeking a partner for a £2bn waterside development in London's Docklands.

The "feed" URI scheme

The "feed" URI scheme 01/16/2004 01:04 PM

Dare Obasanjo recently posted the final draft of the "feed" URI scheme, along with a request for comments on the draft. The feed URI scheme is designed to simplify identifying and subscribing to syndicated feeds, and I'm planning to fully support it in the next build of FeedDemon. My thanks to Dare for taking the time to create this document.

Ksi Scheme interpreter

Ksi Scheme interpreter 07/08/2004 10:12 AM
ksi-3.4.2 released

CBI wishes for the ID scheme we're not
getting

CBI wishes for the ID scheme we're not
getting 08/13/2004 10:53 AM
It could be a good thing, but it isn't, apparently...

Google not taking on PayPal (for now)

Google not taking on PayPal (for now) 06/24/2005 03:33 PM
Google has confirmed their plans for an online payment system, but they're not planning an attack on PayPal. At least, not for now.

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.3

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.3 06/10/2004 08:00 AM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER

PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

PayPal opens up code

PayPal opens up code 05/04/2004 09:29 AM
ZDNet UK May 4 2004 2:13PM GMT

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.2

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.2 05/26/2004 03:23 PM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.6

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.6 02/17/2004 10:02 AM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.1

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.9.1 05/19/2004 07:41 AM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card?

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card? 05/03/2004 06:01 PM
Not quite. But the popular online payment company's new Web services platform adds more detail to credit card purchases online.

Is PayPal The Fifth Credit Card?

Is PayPal The Fifth Credit Card? 05/03/2004 01:45 PM
After working incredibly hard in the legal arena to make sure that they weren't declared a bank, PayPal is now doing much more to appear bank-like to websites that want to take transactions. They're implementing a series of web services designed to make it easier to incorporate a PayPal option for commerce sites, along with traditional credit cards. Of course, some are pointing out that the demand just isn't there for such things. The end-users don't see much benefit if the site already has a merchant account and can offer credit card payments. There isn't much of a benefit to end users to use PayPal when they can just as easily use a credit card. The only advantage is to sites that can't afford or don't want a merchant account of their own - and they're probably already using PayPal.

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.3

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.3 01/22/2004 05:09 AM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

Paypal Link Maker 2.5

Paypal Link Maker 2.5 02/13/2004 03:58 PM
A handy desktop application that creates Paypal payment links without having to go online, easily and efficiently.

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.7

Paypal Shopping Cart 2.7 04/12/2004 07:21 AM
A shopping cart that accepts PayPal payments.

Bogus Diet Patch Company Gets Away By Blaming Affiliates

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