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Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 27, 2013

ChromeCASTing with Google’s Chromecast? Not Likely

When Google unleashed Chromecast, I told you that given the chance that you should grab one. And I’m standing by that statement; at just $35 the Chromecast is a send-video-to-a-TV game changer. But as time passes and clever programmers find…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jun 17, 2013

Who Controls What Customers See/Hear? Influency Makes It You

Albums, Singles, The Music Business, and Influency

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Mar 13, 2013

Owning Your Cloud: What Does That Mean?

This week I was discussing a new tool called “OwnCloud” with a client and Answer Guy Central working partner. He’s one of the smartest people I know, and our conversation started with me telling him I had come across a way to get past the security worries that…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Sep 27, 2012

Google’s Latest Play for Monopolistic Business: File Formats

Google and World Domination via File Formats

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Apr 25, 2012

The Simplicity of World Domination (Google Owns Everything)

Back in the day, when I spent a lot of time being The Computer Answer Guy, I built my street cred giving a little talk about how you couldn’t go wrong being full-on into all things Microsoft. I’m no longer inclined to throw my…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Apr 23, 2012

Mark Cuban Buys The Olympics

Quite a few years ago, after he had sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for billions of dollars but before he leapt to international prominence as owner and impresario of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, I had some brief business dealings with Mark Cuban.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 21, 2012

Apple Finds New Way To Control You; I’m NOT Calling It Evil

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…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 31, 2011

It’s Really Social CONTROL; Google+ ISN’T Social Networking

If it didn’t come directly from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt it would sound paranoid. But it does:

Google+ isn’t a social network; it’s a way of keeping tabs on you.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jul 21, 2011

The Newest Mac Mini, and The Evil That Is Apple

Yesterday, Apple released a bunch of new products. There’s a new version of the Macintosh Operating System that makes your computer act a lot more like an iPad, and also adds other new features. There are new laptop computers, and Apple’s…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Nov 2, 2010

Should College Athletes Be Paid? Are They?

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.