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Brian Livingston
Commission junction ends pay-per-click commissions

Commission Junction, one of the leading e-commerce affiliate service programs, on Aug. 1 stopped accepting or paying out commissions to Web sites that generate click-throughs to participating merchant sites. The few remaining merchants who used this method to attract traffic-building affiliates will have to shift to commissions based on leads (registrations) or sales connected to visitors directed to their sites by affiliates.

The change suggests that pay-per-click programs are near their end. The once-popular affiliate compensation method was doomed by dishonest sites that developed bogus, computer-generated clicks to receive large payouts. The complaints and confusion created by phony click-throughs have apparently made this system unusable.

In a separate measure, Commission Junction last month began publishing the payout results of all its merchants and their affiliates. The figures, which are accessible only to those who sign up for a Commission Junction account, show that HelloDirect.com, a catalog retailer, currently has the highest payout rate per referral. In the most recent three-month period, commissions to affiliates averaged $42.50 for every 100 visitors a site sent to HelloDirect, according to Commission Junction.

Commission Junction's new payout statistics:

http://www.cj.com@31.dk/?3aae

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Livingston's e-business technology review: The first 5-megapixel digital camera

If you've been waiting to buy a digital camera until they have enough resolution to be used for everything, you no longer have any excuse. Minolta has released the Dimage 7, the first digital camera capable of 5 megapixels, the equivalent of a 2,568-by-1,928 pixel image.

You'd never post an image that large on a Web page, of course. But the high resolution allows you to use just the portion of an image you want. Imagine a photo being divided into tick-tack-toe squares. You can crop out everything but the center square and still have a 856-by-640 pixel image that's sharp and crisp.

The enthusiast site Imaging-resource.com describes the Dimage 7 as "advanced digital technology never before seen in a consumer-class digital camera." Aside from shots for Web pages, the full-resolution images can be used for quality prints to as much as 11 by 17 inches in size. The street price is expensive at about $1,499, but this is a camera for those who are serious about digital photos.

Minolta Dimage 7 digital camera:

http://www.amazon.com@54.vg/?4e36

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Livingston's top 10 news picks o' the week

1. Newer, nastier Code Red II infects Windows 2000

http://www.msnbc.com@a2.tc/?3fe

2. Microsoft's exclusion of Java from XP raises ire

http://www.internetwk.com@1c.to/?7e6

3. Amazon launches new 'Imaginarium' online toy store

http://www.internetnews.com@836.as/?bce

4. New AOL service will rival Microsoft's Passport ...

http://dailynews.yahoo.com@a6r.ms/?fb6

5. ... And the two giants also butt heads in other areas

http://www.latimes.com@31.dk/?139e

6. New search engine finds breaking news in Web logs

http://www.wired.com@54.vg/?1786

7. Pay-for-display portals are doing well amid slowdown

http://www.internetnews.com@th.gs/?1b6e

8. Internet users in Asia will exceed United States by 2003

http://www.newsbytes.com@31.dk/?1f56

9. True Audience will help sites quantify ad viewers

http://dailynews.yahoo.com@1c.to/?233e

10. Free programs test your Web pages' functionality

http://www.webmasterbase.com@e.la/?2726

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About the author: E-Business Secrets is written by InfoWorld contributing editor Brian Livingston. Research Director is Ben Livingston (no relation). Brian has published 10 books, including:

Windows Me Secrets:

http://www.amazon.com@54.vg/?0764534939

Windows 2000 Secrets:

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