ventures
Google Taking Over the World
When Microsoft promotes its search engine and its web browser inside of its 80%+ market share operating system, that’s a violation of antitrust laws. So when Google uses its 80%+ market share search engine to promote its content, what is that?
Jason Calacanis has rightly been raising a stink about this. I was trying to link [...]
ZinText Featured on eBay’s Developer Blog
Big thanks to Laurel and the folks at eBay’s developer program. This morning they featured ZinText on their developer’s blog.
BTW, I am headed to eBay’s Developers Conference in Chicago June 17-19. Hit me up if you are going to be out there.
Disappointed with ePN
I had really high hopes for eBay’s separation from Commission Junction. For one, it’s usually always better to communicate directly, without a middle man. And that’s all CJ was, a middle man in our way, preventing us from getting our reporting on time. Or so we thought.
In my mind, perhaps I built up the changeover [...]
Advanced Zintext Options
There are some options for Zintext that I don’t include on the get code page. Not that I don’t think people don’t want them, I just want to make it as simple as possible for publishers to get the code on their pages. Here is some average Zintext code:
<script language=”javascript”>
var EB_campid=’00000000000′;
</script>
<script src=”http://www.zintext.com/showads.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
That’s all [...]
Zintext vs. Competition (Kontera)
I take my work pretty seriously (stop laughing!!!), so naturally there comes a time to measure up to your competition. For ZinText, that would be other in-text advertising networks like Kontera. So recently I found an average publisher that by chance was running both Zintext and Kontera on the same page. Aside from being a [...]
ZinText Officially Approved by eBay!
Big news today, well I guess not big but rewarding for a nerd like me, ZinText finally got the blessing from eBay, meaning we get to use this cool logo:
And take the scary “not approved by ebay” text out of the terms and conditions. Pretty cool, thanks eBay!!!
Zintext Tweaks
So I have really had my head buried in the javascript books lately working on Zintext. Linking keywords to ebay searches sounds like an easy thing to do, but in practice its pretty difficult to do right.
First of all the javascript technique I was using had a pretty large bug in it that made [...]
ZinText - Contextual eBay Affiliate Advertising Platform
I have been in the web publishing business for 7 years now, and along the way I have experimented with almost every advertising network available. In terms of traditional web advertising (banner ads, boxes, skyscrapers) I don’t think anyone can really beat Google’s AdSense. I use them exclusively except where we sell direct advertising, which [...]
Accidentally Making Fun Stuff
So recently I have been really into promoting eBay’s program and having a lot of fun. We have created a bunch of niche sites and use eBay’s api to get listings. Funny thing happened though, I really started to get addicted to some of these sites. My Dad has always been into real estate and [...]
BANS and the webshit they produce
I’ve been seeing more and more of this so I thought I would chip in my 2 cents. There is a company out there called “build a niche store” or BANS. (No that’s not an affiliate link) They produce software that allows someone with little or no web experience to set up their own “niche [...]
