As a developer, this is huge. Depending on what Sun does with MySQL in regards to its open source-ness, this could change the way I do business to some extent.
Sun Microsystems Inc said on Wednesday it will buy open source developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion, allowing it to expand into an estimated $15 billion database market.
This could also change the way Sun does business. Either way, it’s a huge purchase.
I suck. Not generally, just at making money from sites with good traffic. I’m an affiliate marketing idiot and I need help. I have several sites that total about 1.8 million page views per month, yet I’m not making cash like this. Clearly, I need some kind of kick start.
Luckily, there’s a cure for what ails me, and that’s Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, Feb. 24 through 26. Unfortunately, a guy like me with a mortgage and credit card bills (and almost NO) affiliate income can’t afford the registration. So I’m appealing to the kindness of John Chow, who I’ve been a fan of (and talking about daily to my lovely wife) for months now. I hadn’t planned on John being so kind, but he’s traditionally been a giver, so it makes sense. All John asks is that I write a post about why he should sponsor me to go to Affiliate Summit West, so that’s what this is.
Without rambling any further, here’s the top reasons http://www.johnchow.com/go-to-affiliate-summit-west-on-me/ for Affiliate Summit West:
- I’m need affiliate schooling
- I will be the guy paying the most attention during the Super Affiliate Strategies that Work panel that John will be speaking on.
After writing the article about IZEA Rank launching, I decided to play with the API key they gave me and see if I could make an IZEA Rank badge maker and guess what. I created it.
That’s my rank. It shows as a zero right now, because I’m so new in their system, but here’s the best part. It updates automatically. Of course, I don’t want to lose my API key, so I am caching the API call result for 1 day. It only updates once per day anyway, I think.
Go get your own IZEA Rank badge code. Just remember to remove “yourdomain-com” and replace that with your actual domain name.
If you like it, please use it on your site. If you would like to see different badge sizes, let me know and I’ll make them.
