by Jeff Yablon | Jun 6, 2011 | Business Process, Content
iTunes has a problem. Amazon and Google, probably the only two companies with enough business savvy and money to challenge Apple’s music-selling monstrosity, are in. For real. And while (in spite of cute tricks like their Lady Gaga 99 cent album debacle)...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 1, 2011 | Business Process, Content, Media
Are you using that newfangled Twitter thing-a-ma-jigger? Are you using the oh-so-easy-to-upload-your-pictures-from TwitPic to add pictures to your tweets? Stop It. Right Now. A few weeks ago, TwitPic altered their terms of service. In so doing, TwitPic did a land grab...
by Jeff Yablon | May 23, 2011 | Business Process, Content
Ryan Giggs had an Affair With Imogen Thomas. There, I said it. I don’t know if it’s true, by the way. In fact, until this morning I had never heard of either the British soccer star Mr. Giggs or the model-turned-reality-TV-contestant Ms. Thomas. But if...
by Jeff Yablon | May 19, 2011 | Business Process, Content
Sometimes, the best business change you can make is when you “go back to your roots”, Rewind to what you know best. Stop being “cute”. Today, for the first time in a long time, David Pogue wrote a column that was worth reading. I say that,...
by Jeff Yablon | May 18, 2011 | Business Process, Content, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
If you want to find a ripped-off copy of the KFC recipe for chicken, or Mrs. Fields’ Chocolate Chip Cookies, search engines like Google are ready to do your bidding. And actually, there’s some question as to whether recipes can even be copyrighted. For...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 22, 2011 | Business Process, Content, Design, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
I am now one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. Watch out Zuckerberg; I’m coming for you. In the wake of the Huffington Post / AOL merger, creating the biggest content farm in the world for Tim Armstrong to work with, a lawsuit has been filed by...