Category Archives: Business

Apple Outsider – Hollywood Still Hates You

It bears repeat­ing, the vast major­ity of piracy is peo­ple just try­ing to get con­tent the eas­i­est way.

January 26, 2012 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

January 16, 2012 – 11:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Copyright, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Gigantt Blog – The GitHub Job Interview

This sounds like a really solid way to do a job interview.

January 11, 2012 – 12:00 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform

I don’t put much stock in sto­ries that say e-mail is dead for pre­cisely this reason.

January 5, 2012 – 1:55 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.

January 1, 2012 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Design, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained — NYTimes.com

How­ever, busi­ness schools seem to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that rewards not mak­ing happy cus­tomers, not doing the eth­i­cal thing, not doing the thing that pro­tects the envi­ron­ment down the road.

December 16, 2011 – 12:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Culture, Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Adblock Plus – Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus

I’m all onboard with this, in fact I’ve even writ­ten my own Adblock Plus fil­ter to enable ads that I want to see.

December 12, 2011 – 12:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , | Comments Off