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U.S. Supreme Court rejects RIM’s appeal | CNET News.com

This is not good mainly because it impacts me. If I hadn’t just purchased a Blackberry I would be sitting on the sidelines laughing it up. But I did purchase a Blackberry. On one hand I want to say who cares about it, let RIM get away with it. But, if they broke the rules and are making money of anothers hard work, well I guess I and millions of others will have to grin and bear it. I guess I am old fashioned that way.  I afterall still pay for music.

RIM is stating that they have a workaround……yeah…thats gonna go over like a lead ballon. Zeppelin anyone?

Slashdot | Yahoo! Yields Search Dominance to Google
My first reaction to the news that Yahoo is claiming defeat was to rip the boys and girls at Yahoo a new one. But in all honesty they are whooped. They have two options, continue getting it handed to them or give up and focus on a strength. After reviewing the situation I cannot say I blame them. However being a red blooded American, giving up is just hard to swallow. Perhaps Yahoo is giving up on search as we know it. Maybe they refocus that energy on Yahoo 360 and redefine the space of search.  It’s possible. After all that is what Google did to the big portals to get where they are today.

The race for search is far from over. Not sure how many years down the road it will change, but at some point, perhaps a small start up will invent something that we needed all along but just didnt know it ydet, perhaps that company is alreay out there.

Nothing worse than sitting at a demo and having the presnter spend the first 15 minutes gabbing about the inspiration of the product. I know this doesn’t work due to the fact that I love to gab about ‘inspiration’. As Guy so aptly points out, hit them with the shock & awe, or as he puts it ‘Do the last thing first.’ Afterall thats why they/we are sitting in the room in the first place. What the heck does your demo do for me? Then follow it up with the how, I would be careful with the ‘How’. It all depends on your audience. For example a techie crowd wants the how, and executive crowd would lean towards the ‘How Much’ is this going to cost.

Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: How to Be a Demo God