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Patents, Business Change, and AT&T Redefine Net Neutrality

Posted on August 29, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

In the aftermath of last week’s Samsung/Apple legal debacle over patents (you can bet I’ll have something to say about that, soon), I’ve been thinking about another topic that pops up here, every now and again. Hello, AT&T? This is Net Neutrality calling, and we want our definition back. ... READ MORE of Patents, Business Change, and AT&T Redefine Net Neutrality at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (725 words, 1 image, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Nexus 7: Just Try And Sue Google Now, Apple

Posted on July 20, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Yesterday, my Nexus 7 arrived and I spent a bunch of time digging into it. I’ll have the results for you next week.

Something (almost) even cooler than my new Nexus 7 arrived at Answer Guy Central yesterday. Remember that UK judge who threw out Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung because he ruled that the Galaxy Tab isn’t as cool as the iPad? He’s ordered Apple to publicize his ruling.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Against Apple iPad, and 'Cool'Google Nexus 7 Tab

Given how I feel about software patents, that would be plenty of cool for one day. Justin Bieber, I’m watching you. ... READ MORE of Nexus 7: Just Try And Sue Google Now, Apple at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (388 words, 3 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

Facebook, ‘Like’ Buttons, and Staying Out of Courtrooms

Posted on May 7, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

Oh, that pesky Facebook “Like” button. It turns out that your friends seeing what you read isn’t the only think that Facebook can broadcast to get you into trouble. Now, your ‘Likes’ can be held against you.

And frighteningly, that isn’t even the news here.

A federal judge has ruled that clicking the ‘like button’ doesn’t qualify as protected free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It’s a mind-boggling development in the “what is OK to say and do on the Internet?” branch of business change, and while this non-attorney is pretty sure the ruling will be overturned at a higher level, please be clear that if you fall into a Like Button Trap, ‘overturned on appeal’ isn’t going to help you. ... READ MORE of Facebook, ‘Like’ Buttons, and Staying Out of Courtrooms at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

The Latest Threat to Free Speech: Censorship by a High Court

Posted on May 4, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Yesterday, I told you about Sex.com becoming the Pinterest of Pornography. I wrote about that to illustrate the way social networking, done correctly, operates, and acknowledged that I talk about that topic pretty often.

I also talk about Piracy quite a bit. Media Piracy, be it movies, music, books, or software, is an incredibly complicated subject, and one that has many ways to link into a conversation about business change. This week, The High Court in The United Kingdom took aim at Piracy, and in mid-2012 I’m both amazed and a little frightened that they’ve pursued the particular action they’re attempting. ... READ MORE of The Latest Threat to Free Speech: Censorship by a High Court at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Stealing Music and Movies is now COMPLETELY LEGAL in the USA

Posted on April 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

a rat as a digital media, music, movie, book and code thief

Last week, I talked about the reason I’m not an attorney. If you don’t feel like reading that piece I’ll sum it up really simply: most attorneys are weasels. And I don’t want to be a pantless weasel.

A couple of days ago, a US Court of Appeals judge issued a ruling that to my not-a-weasel eye makes, at least until the problem he’s created gets fixed, digital piracy legal here in the USA. Like, completely legal. Like, go out and start stealing copying stuff all you like. LEGAL. ... READ MORE of Stealing Music and Movies is now COMPLETELY LEGAL in the USA at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Here’s The Reason I’m Not an Attorney

Posted on April 4, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 11 Comments

From a very young age, people told me I should be an attorney. When I was a kid I thought that was a compliment, but as I got older I realized it was merely commentary on my ability to come up with an argument for (or against, for that matter) almost anything.

It’s a useful skill. And I’m pretty sure I would have made a great lawyer. I even reconsidered going to law school about ten years ago. But at the end of it all, I felt the same way as an adult that I did as a teenager and college student: I don’t approve of most of what most attorneys do and didn’t want to join the party. ... READ MORE of Here’s The Reason I’m Not an Attorney at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Can Your Boss Ask For Your Facebook Password?

Posted on March 29, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Give me your Facebook password, or you’re fired.

What would you do if your employer said that to you? Give up the goods? Refuse to allow the breach of privacy and hope s/he was bluffing? Lean in (either) direction and quickly hire an attorney?

What if a potential employer demanded your Facebook credentials as a precondition for getting hired?

In the social networking era, it’s a tricky question, and one that can be shut down by simply leaving your social network profiles open to exploration by whomever wishes to see them. ... READ MORE of Can Your Boss Ask For Your Facebook Password? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Why The EFF Has it Right—And MegaUpload Was Wronged

Posted on March 7, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Let’s talk law. Specifically, let’s talk about copyright law, and due process.

Disclosure: I am not an attorney. But I know a thing or three about copyrights, patents, and trademarks, consult on intellectual property issues, and as a business person with several decades of experience reading and often writing contracts feel pretty comfortable talking about what “Due Process” means. Short definition: you’re supposed to get a chance to work through the legal system when someone has a problem with something you’ve done. ... READ MORE of Why The EFF Has it Right—And MegaUpload Was Wronged at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

Who Are Your Friends? Who Can You Talk To? What Are Ethics?

Posted on December 9, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

I’m not a fan of Texas Governor and Presidential Candidate Rick Perry. Without devolving too far into a conversation about politics I think the man is a bad choice as a leader, and has some scary ideas.

But I feel badly for Mr. Perry, because he’s a businessman—albeit a businessman with some special circumstances that apply to him because of his choices—and he isn’t allowed to place phone calls.

Stop for a moment and think about that. Imagine you weren’t allowed to pick up the phone to drum up new business, or check in with the people you do business with—or send them emails, for that matter. Yikes. ... READ MORE of Who Are Your Friends? Who Can You Talk To? What Are Ethics? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

You Know That Hot Teacher? Now She’s Running a Porn Website

Posted on November 18, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

I got it bad, I got it bad, I got it bad. I’m hot for teacher. And if you were a student in Stockton CA, that lyric from the old Van Halen song could have taken on a whole new meaning.

Forget whether you like this video (it’s one of my favorites of all time), whether Van Halen’s music is your cup of tea, or what you think of pornography in general. Business change meets pornography, ethics, privacy issues, and some old schoolboy fantasies when a teacher and a police officer start and run pornography web sites. ... READ MORE of You Know That Hot Teacher? Now She’s Running a Porn Website at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content

Due Process? Not How US Congress Sees the Internet

Posted on November 22, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

How’d you like to live in a country where you had no right to due process under the law? You know: a place where some government official decides you’re naughty and punishes you on the spot, with no chance to defend yourself.

A place like: The United States?

It’s not a law yet, and given how little time there is left in the current session of Congress this bill, like this one, almost certainly won’t become a law, but the United States Senate has before it a bill that would make it possible for your web site to be taken off line immediately if the US Attorney General decided you were participating in “infringing activities”. ... READ MORE of Due Process? Not How US Congress Sees the Internet at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Want to Sell Your Old Software? That May Now Be Illegal.

Posted on September 13, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 6 Comments

When I was in the publishing business, I received an amazing amount of software from companies that wanted me to write about their stuff in IYM Software Review. The pile got huge; it literally lined the walls of a small room in my home, stacked five boxes high all the way around the room.

A time came when I needed to get rid of all those boxes, and I approached a local library about them taking the software off my hands. My idea was that they could create an archive of software development, and be one of the few places in the world where people could come to research that topic. ... READ MORE of Want to Sell Your Old Software? That May Now Be Illegal. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (705 words, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development

US Supreme Court to Overrule NJ Supreme Court on Privacy

Posted on April 20, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

Whose business is it, anyway?

It was just a few weeks ago that the New Jersey Supreme Court made me embarrassed to have lived many years of my life in the often-unfairly-maligned state. Now, the United States Supreme Court looks to be ready to fix the problem.

Let’s recap:

First, there is no constitutional right to privacy. We have many laws in the United States that establish privacy as something that may be reasonably expected under certain circumstances, but privacy isn’t a right. ... READ MORE of US Supreme Court to Overrule NJ Supreme Court on Privacy at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (292 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Now, It Might Be Illegal to Read Your Employees’ E-Mail

Posted on March 31, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

Though born in New York City and most often look at as a NY boy, I’ve lived many years of my life in New Jersey. I know all the jokes (“what exit?!?”), and have grown fond of informing people that most of New Jersey is quite green and doesn’t look like an industrial wasteland. Yes, “The Garden State” has every right to be called that.

I’m horrified by MTV’s unreality program The Jersey Shore. I know lots of folks in New Jersey who are very smart, and like to remind people that both Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were Jersey Boys. ... READ MORE of Now, It Might Be Illegal to Read Your Employees’ E-Mail at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

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