The February 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out:

The February 2006 issue is all about the EU Affiliate Marketing scene, crammed with marketing opportunities from affiliates who actually live and work in the EU. Plus AdSense Arbitrage that works, multiplying profits from existing content, and much more!

WebmasterRadio.FM, a free, business, 24/7 internet radio network, announces the iDate 2006 radio special featuring the FriendFinderInc.com network, to air Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. EST. Hosted by FriendFinderInc.com Senior Affiliate Manager Sagi Cezana, Senior Online Media Buyer Sarah Prescott and WebmasterRadio.FM’s Brandy Shapiro-Babin, the iDate special will cover all aspects of the recent iDate conference. WebmasterRadio.FM is the official radio network of the iDate 2006 conference.

Held on February 2-3, 2006 at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort in Miami, the iDate conference is the biggest dating industry event of its kind. The third annual Internet Dating Conference (iDate) Miami 2006 event focused entirely on the business management, marketing and technology of online dating and social networking Web sites.

The iDate 2006 radio special featuring the FriendFinderInc.com network will air Thursday, February 23rd at 3:00 p.m. EST. All WebmasterRadio.FM programs are available immediately in podcast and archived format at http://www.webmasterradio.fm/.

via 5 Star Affiliate Programs, who recommends that all dating affiliates tune in!

MSN ContentAds is their contextual advertising program name and a launch date will be sometime in 2006. 

Introducing adCenter – Microsoft’s Next Generation Advertising Platform Speaker(s): David Jakubowski, Jed Nahum Session Type(s): Breakout adCenter is the next generation of online advertising that will allow you to conveniently plan, execute, and adjust your online advertising programs. Get the insider view of our current search advertising pilot in the U.S., our plans for ContentAds in 2006 and a preview of the innovations we’re testing at the Microsoft adLabs.

While it is extremely likely ContentAds will only be in beta for a soft launch in 2006, similar to AdCenter starting off with a small beta, the fact that MSN is planning their program to launch relatively soon in the contextual advertising timeline is very good news to hear. With YPN taking over two years to launch after the introduction of Google AdSense, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see MSN not offer their own contextual program until 2007 or 2008.

As far as names go, ContentAds is a good solid choice, albiet slightly on the boring side of things. Not quite as catchy as AdSense but definitely not the mouthful that Yahoo Publisher Network (aka YPN) is.