eFront was an affiliate marketing network which purchased successful websites, such as Penny Arcade and BetaNews, and pooled traffic to those sites to command higher prices for advertising during an industry wide ad revenue slowdown. In 2001 there was a scandal when ICQ instant messaging logs between the CEO Sam Jain and other employees were leaked onto the internet through Fuckedcompany.com. The logs detailed activities such as not paying websites that had hosted their banner ads, sending legal threats to websites that spoke poorly of eFront, and threatening to "rape her and spit on her" (referring to a female webmaster angry about not receiving her check from the company). The logs also detailed how eFront attempted to hire, though never ended up paying, Something Awful founder and webmaster Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, ostensibly to have him generate a positive buzz for the company. Illustration of the concept of affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. ... Penny Arcade is a webcomic and blog written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ... Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ... Jain Shaileshkuma (born February 10, 1970) better known as Sam Jain was an internet entrepreneur and CEO of affiliate marketing network eFront. ... Fucked Company is a website created by Philip J. Kaplan as a dot-com dead pool[1] which reports dot-com or technological companies having serious or embarrassing problems. ... A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. ... Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a wide variety of content, including feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. ... Richard Charles Lowtax Kyanka (pronounced ) (born May 11, 1976[1]) is an Internet personality, and owner and operator of the humor website Something Awful. ...

Richard Kyanka stated during a presentation at the University of Illinois in October, 2005 that he is still owed $40,000 USD by eFront, and that the company ran a number of competitions to attract clients, yet the prizes were awarded to employees [1]. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

As of July 2006, the company's former efront.com domain is currently owned by an unrelated French software firm.[2] Early elections in November are announced in the Netherlands. ...

References

• ICQ logs spark corporate nightmare. Retrieved on October 20, 2005.
• eFront From Inside. Retrieved on October 20, 2005.
• This is long and boring. Retrieved on October 20, 2005.

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External links

• eFront website from the Internet Archive
• Original ICQ logs - Sam Jain detailing his activity
• Betanews escapes eFront meltdown from The Register
• eFront Fiasco Was an Affront to Advertisers' Trust