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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>GeekCast.fm » Affiliate Thing</title><link>http://geekcast.fm</link><description>Podcasts and video on social media, affiliate marketing, search marketing, video, mobile, and more.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:00:21 PDT</lastBuildDate><media:thumbnail url="http://www.affiliatemanager.net/shawn_160height.jpg" /><media:keywords>affiliate,marketing,affiliate,program,affiliate,manager,affiliate,summit,Lisa,Picarille,Revenue,magazine,Shawn,Collins</media:keywords><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Business/Management &amp; Marketing</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>radio@affiliatething.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.affiliatemanager.net/shawn_160height.jpg" /><itunes:keywords>affiliate,marketing,affiliate,program,affiliate,manager,affiliate,summit,Lisa,Picarille,Revenue,magazine,Shawn,Collins</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Affiliate marketing delivered weekly.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Affiliate marketing commentary, interviews, and various segments hosted by Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins.</itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Management &amp; Marketing" /></itunes:category><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AffiliateThing" type="application/rss+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>AffiliateThing</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif">Subscribe with My Yahoo!</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif">Subscribe with NewsGator</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://feeds.feedburner.com/AffiliateThing" src="http://www.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern11.gif">Subscribe with Bloglines</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://www.netvibes.com/img/add2netvibes.gif">Subscribe with Netvibes</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif">Subscribe with Google</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://www.pageflakes.com/ImageFile.ashx?instanceId=Static_4&amp;fileName=ATP_blu_91x17.gif">Subscribe with Pageflakes</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://odeo.com/listen/subscribe?feed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://odeo.com/img/badge-channel-black.gif">Subscribe with ODEO</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.podnova.com/add.srf?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FAffiliateThing" src="http://www.podnova.com/img_chicklet_podnova.gif">Subscribe with Podnova</feedburner:feedFlare><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>Crabs, Advertising Taxes, Running 5k Races, and Twitter Skeptics</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/FkHQc-MW-G8/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the Tax Talk and Crab Feast at buy.at's office in Baltimore, Affiliate Summit selling out, affiliate marketers running in 5k races, and Jeff Molander on Twitter.

Also, they talked about still waiting to hear from Sucharita Mulpuru ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/FkHQc-MW-G8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/crabs-advertising-taxes-running-5k-races-and-twitter-skeptics/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Vacation in Spain or a New Laptop</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/vEtBdJji7rE/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the age old question of whether to go with the family on a vacation to Spain or get a new laptop and set it up, as well as the latest on the advertising tax and Governor ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/vEtBdJji7rE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/vacation-in-spain-or-a-new-laptop/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Affiliate Convention, Joan Rivers, Michael Jackson, and the Advertising Tax</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/_Mf8z76KR5Q/</link><description>My co-host Shawn Collins, who rarely misses show, was away on business this week. Filling in for Shawn is the fabulous Scott Jangro, super affiliate and president of MechMedia. 

Scott has been on the show many times as both a guest and a co-host. I was delighted he could sit ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/_Mf8z76KR5Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/affiliate-convention-joan-rivers-michael-jackson-and-the-advertising-tax/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>It’s Advertising Tax Season for Affiliates</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/nldN-OMP_10/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins was solo and he talked about the return of the advertising tax in the California budget bill, a LinkShare Symposium preview, and MD affiliates getting together over crabs to learn more about the advertising tax.

Also, affiliate Jonathan Volk purchased a new ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/nldN-OMP_10" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/its-advertising-tax-season-for-affiliates/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/WNz8eAdTTbk/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the Facebook username rush, the launch of the Affiliate Summit AffStat Report, and a lawn full of pink flamingos.



Lastly, the finalists were announced for the LinkShare Golden Link Awards.

Show Links 

Get Your Username on Facebook
AffiliateTip on ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/WNz8eAdTTbk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/affiliate-marketing-by-the-numbers/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Affiliates Howling about the ICANN Uniform Rapid Suspension System</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/RbABJZLpaDg/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about speakers lined up from Affiliate Summit, winners of the a4uAwards, and the ICANN Uniform Rapid Suspension System.

Also, subpoenas hitting affiliates in Illinois, launch of BidPlace from advertising.com, and a new job board from Affiliate Summit.



Lastly, the ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/RbABJZLpaDg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/affiliates-howling-about-the-icann-uniform-rapid-suspension-system/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Affiliate Marketing Gets Texas-Sized</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/99LofMay67w/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the Inbound Marketing Summit in Dallas last week, Internet Week in NYC, LinkShare's Bento Box, and a change to Google AdSense Link Units.

Also, they got into how Mayor Cory Booker is emerging as a big force ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/99LofMay67w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/affiliate-marketing-gets-texas-sized/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Affiliate Frat Boys</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/nQqO2Mf9XtY/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins pulls a solo shift on Memorial Day before heading out for the Inbound Marketing Summit in Dallas.

Topics covered this week include how the majority of affiliate marketers, based on a totally unscientific study, were in fraternities and sororities in college.

Also, a ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/nQqO2Mf9XtY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/affiliate-frat-boys/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Making Gmail an RSS Reader</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/yvpdNicbB70/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille discuss Shawn's chat with Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research after the last Affiliate Thing, Gmail tips, and an early sell-out for Affiliate Summit booths.

Also, they talked about Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume and how easy it ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/yvpdNicbB70" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/making-gmail-an-rss-reader/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Jeremiah Owyang Dictates Rules for Affiliates on Twitter</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~3/V3pMzlVZNTI/</link><description>This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille discuss the role of Twitter in affiliate networks, former Affiliate Summit keynote Cory Booker getting real in social media, and a lecture on affiliate marketing at NYU.

Also, they talked about books for Internet marketers, Jeremiah Owyang's affiliate rules ...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AffiliateThing/~4/V3pMzlVZNTI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><author>radio@affiliatething.com (Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://geekcast.fm/archives/jeremiah-owyang-dictates-rules-for-affiliates-on-twitter/</feedburner:origLink></item><media:credit role="author">Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins</media:credit><media:rating>nonadult</media:rating><media:description type="plain">Affiliate marketing delivered weekly.</media:description></channel></rss>
