by Jeff Yablon | Feb 18, 2010 | Business Process, Media
The Whining Has Gone Mainstream. Even the Whining Requires Whining. Yesterday, there was a lengthy article in The New York Times about companies that buy patents and then go after companies using the matter covered by those patents for licensing fees. Specifically,...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 17, 2010 | Development
This week in Barcelona, Spain a conference called Mobile World Congress is happening. The attendees are employees of some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies: AT&T, Apple Computer, Motorola, Google, Microsoft. Their goal? To consolidate the...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 16, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Media
A few days ago, and with no notice at all, Google deleted a handful of blogs. <POOF!> Gone. Just like that. Most of the attention to this has focused on what those blogs did; they were repositories for music, and while there were reviews attached (for example)...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 15, 2010 | Business Process
Today, a tweet caught my attention. The question, posed by Anita Campbell, was whether the existence of services like LegalZoom caused more people to incorporate their small businesses. The answer is no. Ms. Campbell links to a story on her own web site that appears...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 12, 2010 | Business Process
Doug Leeds, US President of Ask.com, has a point to make: “at the end of the day, people would rather Ask for something than Google it”. (credit where it’s due: the quote is from this article from yesterday’s New York Times). More credit: Mr....
