by Jeff Yablon | Feb 26, 2010 | Business Process, Media
How can US Senators be so unclear about the meaning of the laws they write? Today Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, who not coincidentally chairs the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked NBC to explain why certain Olympic events, available on...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 25, 2010 | Business Process, Content
Who Wants a Patent? Because they seem to be getting handed out for just about anything. I’ve long believed that in general software patents are a very bad idea. This week the United States Patents and Trademarks Office set a new record for calling something...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 25, 2010 | Business Process, Media
I’m being less social. My Twitter Community has spoken. As cool a thing as social networking is (or can be), every time you write something you risk rubbing the people who follow you the wrong way. You probably want to avoid the “I’m Eating...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 24, 2010 | Business Process
How’d you like to be review site Yelp? Before you answer “you bet!”, consider this blog post from The New York Times. A real quandary. Let’s assume that Yelp’s position (“we’re just the place where people say things and so we...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 24, 2010 | Business Process
Ahh, Droid. We barely knew ye . . . This week, Google introduced a version of Google Earth for Android SmartPhones. In large part, I don’t care; Google Earth is very cool, but compared to Google Maps it has limited real-world use. And Google Earth requires...
