http://www.nathanfish.com ecommerce, saas, and small business Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:29:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.nathanfish.com/2009/03/27/myspace-launches-myspace-id-and-gets-it-very-right/ http://www.nathanfish.com/2009/03/27/myspace-launches-myspace-id-and-gets-it-very-right/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:00:00 +0000 nathan http://nathanfish.com/?p=33 I have already posted what I don’t like about Facebook Connect. Yes its a great in some ways but very wrong in others. Myspace has recently launched their Myspace ID and they clearly understand the needs of the businesses that would integrate it. They are using an “open stack” which consists of OpenID, OAuth, and OpenSocial. They also give businesses greater access to the users information, email, etc. They also seem to understand that the user, when they sign up for the third party site, is a customer of that site, regardless of which method of credentialing they use. The third party site gets to have a direct conversation with the user. These are big distinctions and I believe they will result in greater adoption by much larger entities then the uptake Facebook Connect has seen.

]]> http://www.nathanfish.com/2009/03/27/myspace-launches-myspace-id-and-gets-it-very-right/feed/ 0 http://www.nathanfish.com/2009/03/13/what-are-affiliates-doing-in-local/ http://www.nathanfish.com/2009/03/13/what-are-affiliates-doing-in-local/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:09:54 +0000 nathan http://nathanfish.com/?p=29 What are affiliates doing in search outside of Search Engine Marketing against keywords? Are there affiliates successfully employing methods like those James Martell has written about to generate traffic. Are affiliates able to generate unique local content and generate revenue from that traffic? Are there affiliates using more volume based strategies and tools to create a large number of local specific sites or pages to generate traffic and revenue? Local is becoming more important and in my experience Affiliates have always been early adopters and innovators, finding ways to leverage online marketing channels to generate traffic and money. The challenge seems to be that there are not a lot of programs available to affiliates to generate money from. There are display ad solutions from Yahoo and Google but there isn’t anything that supports direct integration within the unique content an affiliate might generate, solutions that can support very niche local content.

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