How you’re doing? I hope you had a great start into the new year, and believe me: 2k9 is gonna be a wicked year for web 2.0 folks, and I mean “wicked” in the good, old-school jun­gle way. I do have the impres­sion that the Euro­pean com­mer­cial com­mu­nity is just wak­ing up, and I’m seri­ously look­ing for­ward to big­ger bud­gets being spent on web 2.0 adver­tis­ing as this will boost the whole scene. My per­sonal 1st of Jan­u­ary had a very nice sur­prise in stall for me: datadirt received a Pager­ank update and is now proudly sport­ing a 5.

My Ger­man blog daten­schmutz is now a mem­ber of the quite exclu­sive PR6 blogs club — this did not come totally unex­pected though, yet I’m still really happy about it. Now I know that good ole PR nei­ther reflects a real-time value nor is it the most rel­e­vant SEO fac­tor: but I like to think like some kind of nice, expen­sive watch: no added value, but it looks nice and gives a great first impres­sion

So, what’s a super-affiliate again?

Super Affil­i­ate is a stu­pid buzz­word used in the affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing blog­ging com­mu­nity by blog­gers who want to make you think they make more money or are some­how bet­ter than you. When I had my first $1000 week at one of the very well known affil­i­ate net­works, they said I was now a “Super Affil­i­ate,” which showed me that it means absolutely noth­ing. Any­one using the term “Super Affil­i­ate” in a non-joking man­ner, espe­cially when refer­ring to them­selves, has no cred­i­bil­ity, and is an idiot.

Says Nick­y­Cakes of Reformed Black­hat on Jeremy’s Blog That’s a short yet very con­cise way to put it — I have noth­ing to add

Look back (in no anger)

Jeremy took the time to do a proper all-year review which is also a very smart idea in terms of inter­nal pager­ank dis­tri­b­u­tion by the way.

TechCrunch und Twitter

TechCrunch pub­lishes an arti­cle on a mash-up that for­wards tweets to e-mail adresses. Asks Babou:

I really enjoy your blog for your insights and the posts of your team of writ­ers but there is one thing: you really speak a lot about twit­ter.
Now I under­stand Twit­ter has become an impor­tant medium of com­mu­ni­ca­tion but does it really deserve so much attention?

Well… that depends: I guess that twit­ter deserves all the atten­tion that fits into 140 char­ac­ters — a cou­ple of times per day.

Video of the week

You don’t want to get that job? By all means, watch and learn from this bril­liant job inter­view video by Ben Schwartz:

So much for the first weekly blo­gos­phere review of the new year — as always, com­ments and feed­back are highly appre­ci­ated. See you next week!

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