by Jeff Yablon | Mar 12, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Media
How often do I get to write about music, technology, copyrights, business change, and one of the most successful classic albums of all time, all in one post? The answer is “Once, So Far . . Now”. Yesterday, Pink Floyd, the late-sixties-and-later concept...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 10, 2010 | Business Process
President Obama is in a war of words with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. I find it unseemly, but that’s not important. I bring up the subject because I happened across this article in today’s New York Times, and attached to it was a (slightly...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 10, 2010 | Business Process, Marketing, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Recently a client for whom Virtual VIP does marketing consulting asked me: Are There Too Many Blogs? My answer to him was a quick and decisive who knows? In trying to answer his question, I started by saying that there are way too many for most of them to be terribly...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2010 | Business Process
Well, it’s happened again: a state has decided to penalize many of the small businesses operating in it by forcing Amazon.com to collect sales tax there. The “how ugly can you make your business change?” culprit this time around is Colorado....
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 | 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...