The location for Affiliate Summit East 2008 has been set. I’m delighted to be going to Boston for the conference and with a little luck maybe my “World Champion” Boston Red Sox will be playing at Fenway Park, which would make my trip back home even sweeter.

Check out this contest to win a free pass to Affiliate Summit.

And unless you’ve been living under a rock all week you know that Microsoft made an investment in Facebook. The January/February issue of Revenue will include a feature story on Facebook. See what other stories we are working on for that issue and check out the Facebook coverage from around the blogosphere this week:

Wall Street Journal

Media Post

ADOTAS

MarketingVOX

Silicon Alley Insider

Business Week

CNET

Slashdot

Revenews

AffiliateTip.com

And while you’re sitting around this weekend mulling the impact of Microsoft’s investment in Facebook you can also listen to this week’s episode of the Affiliate Thing podcast. It was a good show where my co-host Shawn Collins and I discussed podcasting, strategies for affiliate marketing, and recommended reading with Jay Berkowitz, CEO of Ten Golden Rules.

Also, our thoughts and prayers go out to all those in Southern California impacted by the horrible fires. A former colleague of mine, Jim Forbes, is blogging about his plight as fire refugee.