We cover, in chronological order:

• Having guests on the podcast – want to talk on the show? Contact us!
• Keeping the kids safe around the house, and at what point do you start needing assistance? Joe’s getting a babysitter to come by the house for a little while during the day.
• Controlling the computers from other rooms to troubleshoot for the kids, and the sense of wonder kids have for technology at this young age because they don’t take it for granted yet.
• The iPhone, again. Sorry. I give my opinions after having it for a week.
• Google Voice – setting up a new phone number and how to fit it into your life. Lifehacker has a good article about it.
• Do people still memorize phone numbers? Don’t people just run off contact lists now? Well, no, because we’re teaching our kids to memorize our numbers.
• Moving all my email to Gmail because of the superior spam filtering. Apple’s Mail filters aren’t cutting it anymore.
• Trust issues with Google when it comes to archiving voice mail, text and everything else they archive. There’s a great book that Joe recommends called Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?
• Buying books, college textbooks and education expenses.
• Buying and selling from my new favorite source, BetterWorldBooks.com
• What is the future of college bookstores and bloated, expensive college textbooks?

We had a great show, and we’d love to hear what you think about anything we covered this week!

Listen along and get some tips on the fun and historic places to go and see while you are here.

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Show notes by Mike Buechele

This time Trisha is the one with the technical problems, so I’m flying solo.

Topics:

• Dave Carroll sings United Airlines Breaks guitars
• Get Noticed Fast on Twitter
• New TweetDeck allows multiple accounts
• Get new business cards for Affiliate Summit, and your Twitter background ready
• CAMA brunch at the Cotton Club
• Crabfest at Buy.at with Affilaite Summit
• Shout out – Ian Fernando dinner at Affiliate Summit

My guest today was Scott Stratten, President of UnMarketing. He’s widely-known for his viral video talents and is the unofficial Mayor of Twitterville.

In this podcast, Scott talks about:

Scott was a good sport and answered a ton of personal questions. Find out what he’d do with $5mm start-up capital from Google; his best qualities and worst habits; what he feels more people should know about him and more by listening in to the podcast above.

Quinn heads up the Traffic Works program, and like Nokia’s NFC program, Traffic Works is a hybrid of technologies. Essentially, it uses the GPS (and possibly NFC) on other phones to feed your mobile devices with traffic reports. For instance, if your phone notices that a lot of other phones are clustered up ahead on the road, it can tell you that traffic is thick, and then suggest alternate routes.

This format is a departure from the usual way things go around here. After the Advertising Tax Talk and Crab Feast in Baltimore last week, a bunch of us decided to do a pub crawl.

In this PubCast, a bunch of buzzed affiliate marketers talk about the event, how to eat Maryland crabs, advertising tax and why we hate despise former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer.

The podcast runs a little shy of 10 minutes — that’s 10 minutes of your life that you’ll never get back. But, listening to me and Shawn Collins pick on other is kind of funny, if I do say so myself.

[On a side note, it's amazing the strange looks one receives when busting out a Mac and a couple of head sets in the middle of a Baltimore bar. Just sayin'...]

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There are other similar services, like Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter Out, but BLU is more focused as a tool to create relationships between webmasters/bloggers and HARO is more focused on actual media connections. They are complimentary tools, and you probably want to subscribe to both.

As an affiliate looking for more content for your site, you can take advantage of BLU to make connections, and to get ideas also. You might see a guest blogger offering content that is in your niche but from an angle you didn’t consider or that you aren’t able to write effectively about.

One question I have been asked when talking about Blogger Link Up with people is they want to know why they shouldn’t just submit their articles to article directories (like ezinearticles, ideamarketers or any of the others) and the answer is simple, still submit your articles there, and go find artilces there, but use BLU to make personal contact with people so that you can get guest posts that are more targeted and offer your articles directly to blogs that really need your content so that you both benefit. It’s all about the personal touch and making direct connections.

The sources area is great for finding sources to quote for articles, and for finding people to interview for podcasts as well.

And the products for review is very valuable for affiliates to find things that are appropriate to their sites to obtain to review and put you in touch with merchants that are willing to give you items for contests or giveaways also.

Listen for tips from both Deborah on how she uses the service, and Cathy about why she started it, how she knows people are using it and where she hopes to take it in the future.

Links from the podcast:
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Cathy’s Idea Lady Website
Cathy’s Blog

Also, they talked about still waiting to hear from Sucharita Mulpuru (@smulpuru) of Forrester Research about her estimate that 10 percent of Amazon’s sales may come from affiliates.

Lastly, what will Lisa sing during TechKaraoke at Affiliate Summit?

Show Links

• Sell Out for Affiliate Summit East 2009
• Take Action Against the Advertising Tax
• Advertising Tax Presentation in Baltimore
• Tax Talk and Crab Feast in Pictures
• Advertising Tax Talk – the Video
• Advertising Tax Talk – the Audio
• How To Eat a Maryland Crab
• PMA – State Legislation Activities
• The Importance of Goals
• TechKaraoke | Affiliate Summit Karaoke Edition
• Do Affiliates Read Affiliate Agreements?
• @samharrelson to @jeffmolander
• Request for more information from Sucharita Mulpuru of Forrester Research: first time / second time

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In this clip, Jeremy explains how NFC is going to completely change ecommerce and help shape (along with LBS) the future of mobile communities. And although Jeremy doesn’t touch on it, NFC also seems to have the potential to really bring mobile affiliate marketing and offline affiliate marketing closer together.