Kris Jones emailed us this week to let us know that PepperJam is launching Pepperjam Network today, a new affiliate network which the company has been working on for almost 8 years. Being affiliate managers themselves, Pepperjam has applied affiliate best practices to their network along with a wishlist of applications which include ease of [...]

Patrick Altoft is hosting a poll on whether or not search marketers report paid linking. Patrick admits that he usually only reports paid links “only when the site buying or selling them was a direct competitor and ranked higher than me.” So far 68% of the voters claim that they do not report paid links [...]

iPhone users would be delighted to know of two new nifty features of Gmail in their mobile devices. Gmail for iPhone enhances iPhone users’ Gmail experience with pre-fetching and auto-complete functions. With the use of AJAX Gmail for the iPhone is now more responsive and faster to load. Gmail will also automatically pre-load the most [...]

This month MediaWhiz, which acquired AuctionAds from ShoeMoney Media last year, merged their AuctionAds and ShoppingAds products into one product, dropping the AuctionAds name and sticking with ShoppingAds. ShoppingAds is now a hybrid which serves both CPA affiliate style ads served by eBay and also CPC ads provided by the shopping comparison engine partners of [...]

Adapt Technologies is offering free 7 day, no obligation “Test Drive” of its pay-per-click management software, Adapt SEM (SEM-in-a-box). Adapt SEM is a software application which helps marketers manage paid search campaigns, in a simplified manner which includes features such as automated performance analysis, bid management, competitive research, and ad text testing and optimization. The [...]

A La Mobile, a San Ramon, Calif. based start-up dedicated to Linux-based open systems for mobile devices, will reveal today plans to unveil a suite of applications based on the new Google mobile operating system, Android. A La Mobile has deployed a Google browser, audio player, maps, calculator, camera, games, calendar, contacts manager, notes, and [...]

It turns out that Google’s iPhone gamble is paying off in a pretty noticeable way. Despite the phone’s relatively low market share, the New York Times reports that traffic to Google from iPhones has reached “impressive levels”. Traffic to the search engine surged over the Christmas holiday, likely reflecting all the new iPhones lucky consumers [...]

Professor Brabazon of the University of Brighton is doing her best to break student dependency of the ‘University of Google’, that is trusting the first result in Google or the perceived authority of Wikipedia as a credible source for research. To encourage her students to revert back to traditional research measures, Brabazon has banned the [...]