Two winners were drawn from the 1,600. The first winner got his choice of an Apple iPod Touch or Amazon Kindle and the second winner got to choose between a Canon HF100 HD camcorder or a Sony PS3 with a 32″ LCD screen. Here’s a video of the live draw.

The first day of the show floor is jam packed with people and getting around can be very difficult. The noise level is very high so trying to filming our editor in chief while he talked with the affiliate networks can be a challenge. Luckily, the DM100 mic we use for Canon HFS100 did a good job recording the affiliate managers while reducing the background noise.

With over 100 booths on the Affiliate Summit show floor, it is impossible to feature them all in this video. Therefore, we’ve limited the interviews to affiliate networks that we know or have a relationship with. Some of the companies featured include:

• Market Leverage
• AzoogleAds
• Tatto Media
• Convert 2 Media
• Healthy Payout
• Direct Agent
• Revenue Wire
• Clickbank
• OffShoring.com
• Copeac

In addition to meeting the affiliate networks, the video shows our editor in chief shooting rockets at people’s head. He can never resist doing that whenever he see rockets on a show floor.

Affiliate Summit was founded by Missy Ward and Shawn Collins in 2003 for the purpose of providing educational sessions on the latest industry issues and fostering a productive networking environment for affiliate marketers. This is the biggest show on the East coast to date.

With over 100 booths on the Affiliate Summit show floor, it is impossible to feature them all in this video. Our editor in chief has limited the interviews to affiliate networks that we know or have a relationship with. Some of the companies featured include:

• Market Leverage
• AzoogleAds
• Tatto Media
• Convert 2 Media
• Healthy Payout
• Direct Agent
• Revenue Wire
• Clickbank
• OffShoring.com
• Copeac

In addition to meeting the affiliate networks, the video shows our boss shooting rockets at people’s head. he can never resist doing that whenever he see rockets on a show floor.

I’ve always been impressed with both the design and build quality of NZXT products, so I had the highest of expectations when I took the opportunity to try out the new NZXT Cryo S aluminum notebook cooler. Is this hot stuff or does it fizzle under pressure?

Highlights and Features

By and large, the Cryo S follows in the same philosophy as other notebook coolers in the Cryo family. You get a jet black aluminum finish, topped off with some rubberized feet to grip the base of your laptop.

You don’t have to worry about cheap craftsmanship or shoddy materials, because NZXT has forged this product using 3mm thick aluminum construction. Believe me when I say that it’s built pretty darn tough. This also means that it has somewhat sharp edges and it may not be the most portable solution out there.

Inside the box, you’ll find the cooler itself, a USB cable, and an AC cable. You can power the fans on the Cryo S either through the USB port on your laptop or through a wall outlet. The NZXT Cryo S will support notebooks up to 15-inches in size.

A New Way to Play Wii

In fact, you don’t need to hold the Wii Remote at all, nor do you need to press any buttons or hit any directional pads. As its name implies, the way that you play Let’s Tap is to tap… a flat hard surface.

The Wii Remote is placed face down on a surface of your choosing. The introductory tutorial suggests a tissue box of all things, but just about any flat and hard surface will do.

With each tap, the Wii Remote may bounce around a little, so what I did was place the Wii Remote on a small cardboard box. I used my left hand to minimize the travel of the controller while using my right hand to tap the box. You may be able to come up with a more creative configuration.

In any case, the idea is that when you tap this surface, the vibration travels to the Wii Remote and the internal accelerometer can translate that into a movement. It’ll detect soft, medium, and strong strikes; these provide different in-game results.

This Sega franchise was born out of the era of Virtua everything, from Virtua Fighter to Virtua Racing, and it has since expanded greatly into the home console market. One of the most recent offerings is Virtua Tennis 2009, acting as the sequel to Virtua Tennis 3. What’s new on this court? Let’s find out.

Introducing the Pro Athletes

A big part of the appeal for Virtua Tennis came from the license to use official athletes. On the men’s side of things, you find everything from Rafael Nadal to Roger Federer, James Blake to Tommy Haas. For the ladies, you can choose from the likes of Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, and Lindsay Davenport, among others.

From afar, I think that developer Sumo Digital has done a good job with making us think that we are controlling the real players. Some of them come with characteristic features, like Andy Roddick’s signature serve and Sharapova’s ear-shattering scream. However, when you look a little closer, the facial detail isn’t terribly accurate.

This is quite possibly the slimmest LCD as part of Samsung’s lineup, if not among the slimmest LCDs on the market today. The SyncMaster P2370 is a 23-inch widescreen monitor and the display portion measures just 30mm in thickness. That’s pretty darn thin.

Features and Specs

In line with the current trend toward multimedia-minded products, the Samsung P2370 features a 16:9 aspect ratio (like an HDTV) rather than the 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio that we’ve come to expect from computer monitors. Going through the rest of the feature list, we discover the following:

• Screen Size: 23-inch wide (16:9)
• Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels
• Brightness: 250 cd/m²
• Contrast Ratio: DC 50000:1 (1000:1 Typ)
• Viewing Angle(Horizontal/Vertical): 170° / 160° (CR>10)
• Dimensions (with Stand): 571.0 x 423.0 x 190.0 mm
• Special Features: MagicBright3, Off timer, Image Size Colour Effect, Customised key, MagicWizard & MagicTune with AssetManagement, Windows Vista Premium, Safe Mode (DownScaling in UXGA)

Inside the brown cardboard box, you’ll find the P2370 itself, as well as the glossy piano black stand, DVI cable, VGA-to-DVI cable, power supply and cable, a cleaning cloth, and instruction manual.
This is all pretty standard fare, for the most part, though it is interesting that this monitor has an external power supply rather than one that is built into the unit itself. This aids in maintaining its slim and lightweight nature, I suppose, but it means that you’ll have another power brick on your desk or on the floor.

Pure Digital introduced the world to affordable and simple movie-making with the first Flip Ultra and now they have expanded the line substantially. One of the newest additions to the line is the Flip UltraHD. As its name implies, you get (720p) HD video out of this pocket-sized camcorder.

New Specs, Same Outside

This isn’t the first HD camcorder to come out of Pure Digital, as you may already know. They introduced the Flip MinoHD some time ago and it was great that you could get HD-quality video out of something that small. Unfortunately, the screen was a little too small and the memory topped out at one hour.

With the Flip UltraHD, you get the slightly larger form factor of the original Flip Ultra, but many of the specs have been bumped. For starters, you get a bigger 2.0″ display. The memory has also been bumped up to 8GB, giving you enough room for 120 minutes of HD video. That’s pretty impressive.

Other specs include Flip Video Engine 3.5, 30fps progressive scan, 9.0Mbps average bitrate, H.264 video compression, MP4 file format, automatic white balance, automatic exposure control, f/2.4 fixed focus, built-in speaker, tripod mount, and HDMI output.

Highlights and Specifications

• 5 in 1 with WiFi: Print / Copy / Scan / Photo / Fax
• Draft speeds up to 38 ppm (black and color)
• Laser quality documents about 2x faster
• Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking built in
• Extra High-capacity Black ink
• 2-year limited warranty with registration
• Smudge, fade, water resistant, highlighter friendly
• Uses up to 3x less power than a laser printer
• Fax and 30-page ADF
• Built-in memory card slots and 2.5-inch LCD

At its core, that’s the idea behind the Seagage FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Solution. By their own branding, this device will let you “bring all your stuff to your home theater… and play it with ease.” You could consider alternative solutions, but the key here is that the FreeAgent Theater is simple, straightforward, and robust.

FreeAgent Theater Features and Highlights

You can expect the FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player to operate in a similar fashion as any other set top box for your television. The connection and setup process is not unlike what you’d do when setting up a video game console or a DVD player. The difference, of course, is that there are no discs involved. Instead, you can freely load up your multimedia content onto the provided FreeAgent Go portable hard drive.

There are three bundles available from Seagate. You can opt to buy the FreeAgent Theater on its own if you already have a compatible FreeAgent Go hard drive. Alternatively, they sell bundles that come with either a 250GB or 500GB hard drive. These bundles also come with the same computer stand for the hard drive as the ones that come with standalone FreeAgent Go drives.

Naturally, you can buy additional hard drives to further expand your collection. There is also a USB input on the front of the device that will accept a range of flash drives, compatible cameras, and other similar storage devices.

The FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player will support video, audio, and picture files from either the attached FreeAgent Go hard drive (which pops up in a similar way as an old eight-track tape) or a connected USB device. Video support includes MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB/ISO), MPEG-4 (AVI/Xvid), and DivX. In my experience, it would not support MP4 or MOV files. There’s also support for a range of audio formats (MP3, AC3, WMA, WAV, OGG), JPEG photos, and subtitle files (SMI, SRT, SUB).