I wanted to write more about the LinkShare Parnter Summit today, but it’s just not happening right now. The list of excuses why is getting longer; the nasty cold still lingers, deadline is pressing for Issue 10, I’m too distracted to concentrate on a single subject, and it’s raining. Whatever.

Instead, I’ll give you the end of the week download. Here goes.

I’m still smiling from a great dinner with the gracious people at eBay. Our table was by far the liveliest. I’m attributing much of the witty banter to Sean Crotty. Oh, yeah. There was also some wine involved and lots reminiscing about old Apple regimes.

Also seated at my table were two nice folks from an affiliate company. These guys had lots of very interesting opinions on ad networks, blogs, podcasting, RSS and knitting.

At the eBay dinner there was some chatter about the recent Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas. The consensus was that the show is the best overall affiliate event and it’s getting even better each time.

However, there was a collective “huh?” over the choice of venue for the Affiliate Summit taking place in July. This week Shawn Collins, the show’s co-founder and organizer, sent out a notice that the summer show would be in Orlando, Florida. Shawn, have you ever been to Florida in the dead of summer? No one wants to see hundreds of sweaty merchants and affiliates (or press people). Trust me.

However, if you’d rather instant message with perspiring (and drier) members of the affiliate community then check out affaimlist.com. The Affiliate AIM List is a simple but clever idea. It’s a growing list of the AOL instant messenger handles of people in the industry. Members opt to sign up and then others on the list can see if you’re on IM or offline and contact you directly. The Affiliate AIM List was started by Goyami.com blogger Adam Viener, the president of IM Wave, a search marketing affiliate. The impressive list boasts some high profile industry leaders.

And talk about buzz. It seems like half the people I’ve interacted with this week (and this month) have directed me to Guy Kawasaki’s new blog. You might remember Guy from his days as an evangelist for Apple. He started blogging at the very end of 2005 and while he writes about entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovation, public speaking, the Macintosh, and hockey, there are still many valuable nuggets for anyone doing online marketing or starting a business.

Ok, so this was really at the end of last week not this week (sue me), but it looks like Commission Junction finally decided to actually enforce its policy that employees can not be affiliates in the CJ network. Several people emailed me saying that three publisher managers quit over this. I have those names, but I haven’t been able to confirm anything so I don’t want to put any names in print (don’t sue me). Once I get the full story, I’ll get back you with all the details.

But enough about me, tell me what happened in your world this week. lisap@revenuetoday.com