Jangro.com Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, etc. Heavy on the etc.

A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the experiences I had with looking into grid and VPS server solutions. Here’s a bit of an update on what’s going on there and a look at GoGrid, a “cloud computing” hosting solution that is taking on Amazon’s Elastic Computing service.

You ever read any of those “Annoyances” books from O’Reilly Press? Titles like “Windows Vista Annoyances”, “Microsoft Office Annoyances”, actually they’re mostly about Microsoft. Who’da guessed it?

One feature that belongs in every affiliate program is deep linking. Deep linking is the capability to link directly to any page on a merchant site, typically by appending the merchant url onto the end of an affiliate tracking link. Virtually every affiliate network supports deep linking in some manner, though not all [...]

If you haven’t checked out Coda, it’s a beautifully designed and useful (looking) web development tool for OS X. If you do web development, you have your arsenal of tools… text editor, FTP program, terminal application, source code revision management.

August starts an exciting time of year for us at my company. Our biggest website is a Web 2.0-ey Social Costume Shopping Site, CostumZee. It does well all year, but we get some mad traffic come halloween time. October is sort of like our Christmas.

So we’ve been blessed with another new baby here in the Jangro household. It’s been a busy few weeks here since August 7th when Jason Thomas was born. Beyond the normal joys, trials, and tribulations that come with a newborn, there has been a new dimension to such an important event. Social [...]

Since the new 2.0 version of the iPhone OS has been out, I’ve picked up a number of apps. Many have been games and otherwise a few productivity tools and web 2.0 app companions. But nothing has really hit me as being such a great tool as the Wordpress application.

So I just turned in my leased 2007 BMW 325xi. I thought I’d be more disappointed to let it go.

It’s been a slow summer for blogging here. Lots going on here. Most notably, a baby coming next week. Scheduled for next thursday. More on that to come. Ready or not.

The rebranding of the Performics Connect Commerce Platform has begun. These guys don’t waste any time: