Episode 19 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
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- SitePoint Podcast #19: Compuwhatnow? (MP3, 33.3MB)
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Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
The Affiliate Tax
- Amazon: North Carolina Affiliates Will Be Terminated When “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” is Enacted (Another Good Reason to Use Skimlinks?) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Associates To Pull Out Of North Carolina Due To “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” (TechCrunch)
- Update: Amazon Closes North Carolina Based Associates/Affiliate Accounts (Including Mine, Which Was At Least 9 Years Old) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Drops More Affiliates Over Online Tax Issue (Information Week)
- Why Does North Carolina Hate Amazon? (The Motley Fool)
Compuserve Shuts Down
- Compuserve Shuts Down (Boing Boing)
PHP 5.3 Released
Firefox 3.5 Released
- Firefox 3.5 is Out – Download it Now! (SitePoint)
- Firefox 3.5 for Developers (Mozilla)
The HTML 5 Video Format Debate
- Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (Ars Technica)
XHTML 2 Development Will End at the W3C
- RIP XHTML 2 (SitePoint)
- HTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5 (W3C)
Host Spotlights
- Stephan: DjangoCon 2009 calling for proposals
- Brad: Twittorati: Tob Blogs on Twitter
- Patrick: Eternal Moonwalk
- Kevin: The Open Web Tools Directory
Thanks for listening! Feel free to let us know how we’re doing, or to continue the discussion, using the comments field below.
I want to add something important about your initial debate. I don’t know about internal sales taxes in the US, but VAT IS added by Amazon already. When you buy from Denmark, VAT of 25% is added to your purchase.
It also makes it easier for tax authorities to handle Amazon packages, and obviously gets it delivered much faster.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Interesting discussion
July 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Love the Eternal Moonwalk Patrick! :-)
July 13th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Glad to hear it, Matt. :)
July 16th, 2009 at 7:05 am
I wanted to post my thoughts on the Host Spotlights. It think that it is a good addition to the podcast and look forward to hearing more.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:55 am
After listening to the comments on Amazon affiliates and state taxes, I am so glad we don’t have convoluted systems like that in Australia – sales tax/GST consistent right across the country. Makes this so much easier.
Also, host spotlights were good – keep it going
July 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm