by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Development, Media
Ever wonder how your favorite television programs come to be on Hulu? Think about it: the studios that own the rights to those shows don’t like giving them away. They sell episodes on iTunes, they sell DVD collections of their programming, and they sell...
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 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 4, 2010 | Content
Ah, to be Australian. Lower population density, plenty of beautiful places, great weather much of the year, and now a little bit more freedom to use the Internet to download movies illegally. Hey! And Nicole Kidman is in Moulin Rougue! OK, so that wasn’t her...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 28, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Media
Are they kidding? OK, no, they aren’t. Apple’s new iPad has the potential to be at the center of the biggest business change ever, anywhere. And the way Apple announced the device yesterday is all the proof you need of that. So the question is: will it...
