by Jeff Yablon | Sep 4, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Media
Yesterday, a rumor started circulating that the actor Bruce Willis was getting ready to sue Apple over the rights to his digital music collection. The rumor was short-lived; in a matter of hours his wife denied it. Having recently lost my sister and having used words...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 17, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing
One of the most amazing and beautiful things about business change is that there’s no “right way” to do it. There are plenty of wrong ways, like, say, underpaying your employees or cutting back on customer service, but your options for positive...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 21, 2012 | Business Process
Back in the day, most software was copy-protected. Software makers feared that people would copy and distribute what they had bought, so they put extra software in their software or even did controlled damage to the floppy disks that software used to come on to...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 8, 2010 | Business Process
In today’s world, there are a lot of ways to get ripped off. Ever since software became a mass distribution item, companies have sought ways to protect their products from copying by people who hadn’t paid to use it. In the old days that was called...
by Jeff Yablon | Jul 31, 2009 | Media
Last week I commented on the debacle that Amazon.com created by reaching into Kindle devices and deleting George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. Read that story again, here, and check out the update in comments. Bad as that was, and Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos...