This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about ad-tech and the Iceland volcano, a television commercial from Affiliate Summit, and monkey business on Wikipedia.

Also, a Twitter took from Robert Scoble, short affiliate URLs from ShareASale, women in Chuck Taylors, and a new API from buy.at.

Show Links

• Tatto Media Report Finds SEO Conferences Have Zero Value
• Affiliate Summit East 2010 Commercial
• 2010 Komen North Jersey Race for the Cure
• Newcomer Program for Affiliate Summit First Timers
• Altering History for Fun and Profit: An Affiliate Story
• ShareASale License Plate Links
• scobleizer’s Tweetboard
• buy.at Beta Launches a New API
• Cleverat Enter Voluntary Liquidation
• Free Your Feet; Liberate Your Soles! (And Maybe Win an iPad)

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The Cast of Geeks show has succumbed to the pressures of evolution and morphed into the GeekyBunch. While the old crew of Shawn Collins, Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson aren’t doing a dedicated Cast of Geeks show every week anymore, individual members of the band will still drop in from time-to-time to participate in this new iteration.

Out of the ashes, the newly formed GeekyBunch picks up the pace with Steve Rosenbaum, Scott Jangro, Mike Buechele, Jim “The Coach” Kukral and Sam Harrelson playing in the band.

Show Notes:

- Mike’s Rebranding
- Cloud39.com (Sam and Scott’s New Tech Blog)
- .tv vs .com
- Domaining
- Twitter Pro, Track, Google and the Future
- Rackspace and Twitter Business
- WeFollow
- Boxee

GeekyBunch 56 runs 1 hour and 11 minutes of solid goodness (seriously).

The “GeekyBunch” name credit goes to listener and awesome guy James Seligman.

Episode 45 of the GeekCast show got into Twitter, Internet celebrities, Jim Kukral’s emotional roller coaster with his new MacBook Pro, and Obama as the first technology President.

Also, we got into some pre-Affiliate Summit stuff in Las Vegas, like CES and a joint event with Gary Vaynerchuk and Robert Scoble, plus Ted Murphy in a tub of cereal, divorce Second Life style, and how Jim thinks Howard Stern’s wife is a dog.

Show notes:

• Twitter Contemplates Charging for Use
• iJustine on Mozy Commercials
• MediaWhiz Launches InLinks
• Gary Vaynerchuk Takes on Howard Stern
• Barack Obama Loses His Blackberry
• Mark Cuban vs. the SEC
• Wal-Mart to carry iPhone after holidays?
• ‘Second Life’ Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce
• Seth Godin’s Tribes and Sam Harrelson does a 20-second Review Without Reading It
• Gary Vaynerchuk and Robert Scoble Before Affiliate Summit
• Facebook Fan Pages Ranking Well in Google
• Ted Murphy in a Tub of Cereal

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GeekCast comes early this week, since Lisa Picarille and Shawn Collins will be at the LinkShare Symposium on Tuesday, so they joined Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson for a very special episode 24, where predictions were made for the winners of each LinkShare Golden Link Award.

This installment kicked off with talk about Shel Israel getting dumped by FastCompany and how it turned out that he wasn’t in cahoots with Loren Feldman on it.

Then there was some very scientific and objective chatter about the winners of the LinkShare Golden Link Awards. The GeekCaster with the most correct picks gets a free night at the bar on the tab of the three losers (or a sponsor if somebody wants a piece of this exciting exposure opportunity).

The gang dug into the latest, mission critical information on social media from Jeff Molander, as well as guesses on the fate of the Performance Marketing Alliance.

And then some discussion on the new site, MyMotivatr, a tool where you can create your own motivational poster.

Riding the social media bandwagon a bit more, Spock, FriendFeed and using Yahoo Pipes got some time, as well as trying to control the results for searches on Google Images.

And then some talk on whether it makes sense to fully launch Google Universal Search, since the images and videos displaying for so many queries are not on target for businesses.

GeekCast rounds up with talk of the Spore video game, anticipate of the new iPhone and Blackberry Bold, and the folly of George Michie from the Rimm-Kaufman Group, who proudly proclaims he “has been (and remains today) highly critical of the affiliate channel”, moderating a panel on affiliate marketing at the Internet Retailer conference.

Listen to the end for information on claiming exciting prizes.

GeekCast 24 Show Links:

• Robert Scoble Puppet on Shel Israel
• LinkShare Symposium
• LinkShare Golden Link Awards
• Jeff Molander on Social Media
• LaptopConnect from AT&T
• Apple TV
• MyMotivatr
• Rimm-Kaufman Group on Affiliate Marketing
• Blackberry Bold

The show runs a buzzillionrific 105 minutes and 50 seconds.

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Episode 18: Value of Influencer Marketing? (about 22 mins / 22 mb’s)

Show Notes

- Bush’s State of the Union
- Affiliate Economy
- Affiliate State of the Union
- Influencers Matter?: Fast Company
- High School Rules: The Evil Marketer

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Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson discuss the week's news in affiliate marketing and online tech news.

Show Notes
- Affiliate Summit Tips
- Scoble Sells Out
- Ethical Standards and Blogging
- 45n5 and Affiliate Spam
- WickedFire N00bery
- John Chow
- Izea, PayPerPost and Ethics
- 5 Seconds of Suck
- Shawn is Yoko Ono
- Why is Jason Calacanis Affiliate Summit Keynote?!?
- Auto Approval Sucks… or Does It?
- Affiliate Certification?

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