Revenue has published many articles on the merits of using video as an online marketing tool. There are lots of people pushing the video blogging envelope in the online marketing space - Sam Harrelson, Mark Wielgus, Jim Kukral, Shawn Collins and many others. What you should note about this list is not that most of these folks are well known in the online marketing industry (they are) but that they are men.

Today is Good Friday and so far the day has lived up to its name. If for nothing else than I’m only hours away from it being the weekend.

Truthfully, the reason that it’s been such a good day for me is that I’m spending lots of time playing with my new ASUS eee PC. Shawn Collins may be touting the value of his Vostro but I love, love, love my new tiny little laptop.

After a little more than two years as president of LinkShare and eight years total with the performance network, Steve Denton resigned today. In a call shortly after the news hit the wire services, Denton told Revenue that it was “truly a personal decision” to step down. He says that he’s made a decision to “spend more time being a dad” and with his family.

LinkShare president Steve Denton has resigned as head of the performance network. The news came Tuesday from a press release put out by the company.

NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ — LinkShare, a leading pay-per-action marketing network, announced the resignation of Stephen R. Denton as President of the company and two promotions in its executive management team.

I’ve been remiss in my blogging efforts. That means there is a lot to get to. So, on with it…

The big news today is that eBay announced today they are taking their U.S eBay and Half.com affiliate programs in house. EBay has been running its program on Commission Junction since 2001. However, about a year and a half ago eBay changed their links to their own tracking links using rover.ebay.com, so it was just a matter of time before the entire program migrated in house.

It’s not even 8am and I have already had two major computer crashes and been locked out of my house this morning.

There was a thread on the affiliate forum ABestWeb.com about first timers’ experiences at the Affiliate Summit. I was sorry to hear that not everyone had a completely pleasant experience at the event. Many pointed out that they felt there were many people whom they wanted to meet but felt were unapproachable. Most people singled out responded on the forum that had someone come up to them they would have been glad to chat. In many case, these people were not even approached.