Google and me

eBays new affiliate program had a problem with a reporting issue and it resulted in duplicate records being posted.

The problem should now have been fixed

Here is a full press release

A subset of our publisher base was affected by a reporting issue which resulted in duplicate records being posted to the transaction detail reports during several days this month. The issue has been resolved, and transaction data from 4/1 thru 4/24 were reprocessed and posted on Friday, 4/25. Previously posted records were deleted in the process. In order to retrieve transaction detail records for the affected time period, you will need to filter your transaction download report for posting date 4/25/08. Please note that this issue only impacted transaction detail reporting; summary reporting and earnings tracking were not impacted and all commissions will be paid correctly for the month.

Experts called the buy of Skype the most stupid deal in history. The experts agree that Skype is a good program but the profit for telephone is so small so that the price they paid for Skype is highly overrated.

Niklas Zennström the founder of Skype sold out early and missed a near 800 million US dollar if he had waited and if the company had made profit. On his blog he says it was an adventure and now he wants to do something else.

I guess we have to start calling Ebay an internet company now. From only having auctions they bought the number one E bank company Pay Pal and from there they bought the Swedish company SKYPE. Now the Ebay company has gone and bought stumbleupon.com the online rating tool for FireFox. Did they buy it just so Google could not buy it and are they arms racing now? Google also bought another company the RSS feeder Feedburner I guess just show that they can.