A recent action by the FTC against a group of adult site operators is sending chills down the spine of many companies that operate affiliate programs.

According to the FTC complaint, under the CAN-SPAM Act, the site operators were liable for the spamming carried out by an affiliate. The settlement for the 4 parties involved came to over $600,000.
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BlogPulse, a service from Intelliseek, is a blog search engine that provides reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.

For bloggers, there’s a few tools that may be of interest:
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The Federal Trade Commission has released consumer fraud and identity theft complaint data covering January to December 2005.

The FTC received over 685,000 complaints during the period with 63% of those related to fraud. Of that percentage, Internet-related complaints
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Yesterday, I mentioned that according to a Bloomberg article which quoted a senior Yahoo exec, the company had no designs on eclipsing Google in search.

Well, it seems like that was the opinion of perhaps a minority of Yahoo senior staff
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This is sad. According to Yahoo’s Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, Yahoo is prepared to continue to play second fiddle to Google, and in fact has no aspiration to be numero uno in search.
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Figures released by Comscore Networks show that online spending (non-travel) from January 1 to 20 is 33 percent higher than for the same period last year.
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A survey carried out by Web Surveyor of over 500 participants shows that for the first time in online retailing history, women outpaced the men in online shopping during the 2005 holiday season. Even with the bumper season, shopping cart abandonment is still a major problem.
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Return Path recently released their Second Annual Holiday Email Consumer Survey. Amongst the key findings:
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Microsoft Corp., (MSN Search), Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc, 3 of the 4 major search engines, have acknowledged that they were recently subpoenaed and supplied requested search data to the US Government
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According to a new study from the Radicati Group, Inc. there are over 660 million email users globally who collectively have over 1.2 billion active email addresses. 135 billion emails are sent each day, unfortunately
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