When I talk evil business practice, it’s generally Apple or Google that’s in my cross-hairs. Apple does so many things disguised as features but really designed to dominate markets at its users’ expense that the “Apple is Evil” conversation can go on…

Are you still cold calling? Have you noticed that selling to small business in particular is all but impossible (and of course, selling to large business is even harder)?

One of the funniest pieces of stand-up comedy I’ve ever come across is by a guy named Ron White. Mr. White’s comedy routine revolves in large part around a southern redneck persona that, while clearly rooted in his real life experiences, I suspect he left behind when he started…

As business change continues to swirl around video games and other media properties, Redbox prepares a 20% price increase (albeit one that shouldn’t have a bad impact on or create fallout from their customers), and Netflix keeps making stupid mistakes, you might be wondering where…

The guys who made PressPausePlay have a problem: as they make abundantly clear in the film, anyone can make music or movies using inexpensive equipment that they might well already own. But whether that’s a good thing or bad is up…

One of the things we do at Answer Guy Central is Intellectual Property Consulting. I don’t talk about that area of our expertise too often because … well, because it’s not very interesting. Besides, combined with our position…

This story is about “Ruffles”. Ruffles isn’t for sale, but as cute puppies go, he’s right at the top of the heap. I found Ruffles’ picture on Facebook, on the profile of a woman I had never met when I posted Ruffles’ picture on Facebook — but…

If there was ever a doubt in your mind about how important SEO Consulting and Search Engine Optimization are, you may now thank the good folks at Yahoo! for defining the issue clearly. SEO matters, and Yahoo! is handing out bribes.

When I told you about The Facebook Timeline Version and its impact on privacy last week I was pretty laid back about it. Yes, Facebook is setting us all up to disclose even more information about ourselves than we had already been giving…

Back in the day, I served a couple of years as President of an international journalism group. The Computer Press Association was a collection of people who, as the name suggested, wrote about technology and took the tenets of journalism…

About a year ago, I told you about a court ruling that (maybe) makes selling software you no longer use illegal. It’s going to take years for that issue to resolve, and when it does you can bet that some attorneys will find a way to claim…

Sometimes, “Good Enough” is good enough. But only sometimes. And when designing your web site, you need to step up to something better than good enough.