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Youtube to become super-affiliate

Found this newteevee blog post under more items on techmeme. You tube, according to CEO Chad Hurley, is all set to use the affiliate marketing route as an additional monetization opportunity besides display ads. Hurley said at an event in Palo alto that they are already integrating affiliate links to Amazon and iTunes within Music video [...]

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e-retail has a lot of room for improvement, usability and customer serivce wise

The Get Elastic blog posts about a study that was done on 300 major e-retailers on the basis various usability and customer support related factors. The results make you wonder that e-commerce could really have been much larger/more trusted/liked than it is already only if e-retailers would pay more attention to giving customers a 'better than simply "good"' shopping experience.

Asides

• My personal blog - a space where I plan to publish everything that I can't here on finaltag.com - has officially launched. http://pranavchavda.com Expect my thoughts about life, spirituality, tech, etc. Subscribe with caution. #
• Ebay links via CJ will expire on the 31st of this month. If you haven't moved your links to the ebay partner network, you've got seven days. #
• Amazon.com recently introduced a cool way to promote it's DRM free iTunes competitor, the MP3 clips widget. Bloggers who are amazon associates can now post 30 second previews of music they are talking about (or best sellers on the amazon mp3 store or all music from a genre or songs they recently purchased). This adds to amazon's already extensive suite of widget type ads offered to associates. Amazon.com Widgets #
• Google is now offering landing page load time evaluations for adwords. Nice. Post on the inside adwords blog says load times will be part of quality score starting mid june. hmm, I was under the impression load times were already being calculated. #
• Now that Microhoo is officially dead, could a YBay be on the cards somewhere? Thoughts? #