So I thought I’d better try to get an update of this week on Traffic Exchange Live written before I turn into a block of ice! Apologies for the delay in posting updates this week, the reason’s been twofold – one, I haven’t taken very many notes this week because it’s either been far too busy in there (such as Tuesday during the launch of ThumbVu) or I wound up being too late to TE Live to take many (yesterday) -

And two, I’m frozen (LOL)! This extreme freeze here in the Southeastern U.S. has got me wrapped up like the Michelin Man just waiting for Sunday or Monday to hurry up and get here and 40F degree weather back again. I know my Canadian and Northern friends and readers think it’s hilarious that we are (literally and officially) declared a state of emergency in many cities in the Southeast (including mine), but as an article on The Weather Channel’s news page stated the other day, houses and buildings down here just aren’t built for this extreme cold this many days in a row. If we get single digit weather, it’s for a day or two usually and then it’s back up to 40 or 50.

It being this cold for so many days here (and the worst still to come over the three days of the weekend) is just playing havoc with everything and everybody. Especially me since I don’t really have any decent heat right now to speak of, but we’re managing here so far. If I can just stay in one place (right here in front of the computer) and not move much, I’m kinda okay mostly, LOL.

Anyway, you’re not here to read about me turning into a popsicle – you’re here for the TE Live scoop, so let’s get to it! It’ll be mostly pictures today due to the reasons outlined above! Ha! :-)

ThumbVu Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday & Tired Thursday On Traffic Exchange Live:

• Tuesday was just crazy! Jon Olson was gone to Edmonton as mentioned in the last post, but Tim Linden and John Guanzon started TE Live up early on Tuesday because of the ThumbVu launch and things were just totally wild all day with tons of people streaming in and out of the room and all kinds of funny stuff going on.
• I just couldn’t take many notes on Tuesday because not only was I trying to do stuff in other windows to help with the launch, but there were just too many people and too much going on, though I don’t know that there were all that many true anecdotes to post about. Most of the discussion all day was about ThumbVu and the launch and how things were going, and co-creators Mike Gartner and Austin Hallock were in the chat room all day also answering questions with owner John Guanzon, and Austin tweaking stuff on ThumbVu as needed with whatever issues came up. Tim was entertaining himself (and us) surfing around ThumbVu and finding new things for Austin to do and fix.
• Tim was surfing ThumbVu and commenting on this and that, complaining that I was on page 1 of the authority page and he wasn’t (but he was on page 1 of the site popularity page and I wasn’t so all’s fair), and showing us various stuff as he surfed and poked around (and came up with more stuff for Austin to do and fix). There was a lot of programmer humor that day.
• Brandon Hawthorn was surfing ThumbVu and hit the Linden jackpot:

• Our Eastern European friend Inga joined on cam for a while, with her daughter who was there as well.
• Tim zoomed. I mean, ZOOMED:

• By the end of Tuesday’s show, the ThumbVu launch had gone very well and everyone was tired, especially John, Austin and Mike (John had not been to sleep the night before). I think a majority of us there probably took a nap after TE Live on Tuesday!
• John and Tim were back on Wednesday with Traffic Exchange Live, with Jon still out (and probably will be the rest of the week).
• Sean Supplee was in the chat room today with some TE-related and mail-related questions for the guys.
• A rather animated and chatty eldest Mini-Tim wandered into Dad’s office. I was rather impressed with how very quickly her dad was able to captivate her attention with his photos while they looked at the pics in his Rhode Island Photos calendar together and talked about them.

• Tim said he was feeling a little tired, so it was time for techno.
• A little while later the youngest Mini-Tim wandered in and whaddya know, she’s apparently a techno fan too just like Dad:

• Then a little while later Tim’s cat Dune (who was born with only a partial tail) wandered in and we all discussed cat matters for a bit. I mentioned how one of mine gets fascinated with the cursor moving around on the computer monitor sometimes, and the next thing that happened on TE Live was this:

• Lots of discussion about all of our pets, stray animals many of us have taken in, various people’s stories and irritation with how much of a pain some places make it when you go there to try and adopt a pet.
• Great Dane talk and links to pictures shown. Everyone agrees that Great Danes are terrific dogs. Jon Atwood has several (and I think he said they foster Great Danes and/or work with a Great Dane rescue, that’s awesome either way). We looked at pics of Danes being total couch potatoes, including one of three Danes on a love seat with a cat plopped in the middle of it all.
• We watched the cat’s head go round and round watching the cursor until we were all dizzy. See?

• Dune the cat went on his merry way shortly thereafter and TE Live soldiered on, though we all seemed to be a bit more tired than usual that day and there was discussion about that. Sean said he felt like he was getting dumber by the minute.
• Talk about shutting down early that day. Jerry Iannucci protested, as he usually does when they shut down early. I said John and Tim were clockwatchers and I wanted Jon back. (LOL) :-)
• John and Tim were back on Thursday and everybody was pretty much still tired.
• Lots of talk about the weather in various parts of the country this week.
• John looks kinda like an Abercrombie or Benetton model here, doesn’t he?

• And thus brings this week’s update of TE Live up to date, until today’s show anyway!
• WINNERS: John gave away a brand spanking new ThumbVu mug on Tuesday during the launch, and Walter Mulder (who is acquiring quite a nice collection of traffic exchange mugs lately!) was the happy winner.
• I CALL YOU OUT, YOU GET LINKAGE (if I know your link): LinkCrews (Michael “UA” Gartner), GameDayFeed (Austin Hallock), Brandon Hawthorn, VisitManiac (Sean Supplee), AdTactics (Jon Atwood), Safelist Marketing Tactics (Jerry Iannucci), Walter Mulder.
• ALSO ON THE SCENE THIS WEEK: Brenda Broyles, Steve Ayling,  Connie Motala, Dorena Begonia, Grebo, Inga, Kevin Bailey, Wanda Robinson, Charles Smith, James Vest, Cat Heiter, SpyderKate, Wanda Robinson, Kjell Lindstrom, Rhonda Morton, Carl Bailey, Bert Daniels, Stephen Whittle, Melody Smith, Eric Abbott, BartenderMo, Pamela, Brian Jones, Marcy McManaway, Kym Robinson – and of course, Winter Perkins and Randy Ritter. (And a WHOLE bunch of other people that were in and out Tuesday during the ThumbVu launch – sorry if I missed getting your name on the list, I gave up trying to take notes on Tuesday it was so wild in TE Live that day.)

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-5 pm EST ***

Surf’s Up Site of the Day (and the rest of this week): ThumbVu

I’ll be back either tomorrow or Monday with Friday’s TE Live update… depends on how frozen I am this weekend, LOL! Everybody in the superfreeze zone try and stay warm as best you can, and I’ll see whoever shows up at Traffic Exchange Live today (and maybe Affiliate Funnel conference tomorrow if I’m not a solid block of ice by then)!

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