by Jeff Yablon | Nov 8, 2010 | Business Process, Media
If you’ve ever been in an orchard, seen a yummy-looking apple just above your head, picked it, and taken a bite, you may have experienced the problem with doing things the easy way. Low-hanging fruit may be easy to lay your hands on, but that doesn’t make...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 5, 2010 | Business Process
You didn’t think Facebook was done with social networking and software patents, did you? The United States Office of Patents and Trademarks has just issued Patent # 7,827,208. It covers Facebook’s news feed feature. But unlike Patent 7,669,123 issued to...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 4, 2010 | Business Process
Because of my liberal leanings on social issues (and the conflict that creates with my feelings about fiscal ones), I try to leave politics out of the things I write here at Answer Guy Central. So let me be clear: I have no political or ideological axe to grind with...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 3, 2010 | Business Process, Development, Media
Know who needs more attention? Jews. American Jewish World Service has found a very funny way to get attention, and it includes big business change—or at least hopes that how things turn out. They’ve partnered with Judd Apatow to turn out a Public Service...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 2, 2010 | Business Process
As a medium-height, average-sized, not-quite-athletic guy, nobody ever paid me to play sports. This, along with not being a rock star, are two of the great disappointments of my life. But for the physically gifted young men and women who attend big universities on...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 29, 2010 | Business Process
This week, it became way easier to steal other people’s log-in information at Starbucks and in other public W-Fi locations. Firesheep, an add-on for the Firefox web browser, lets you see the cookies in the computers that other people logged into the same WiFi...
