Entries for February, 2010

Yelp sued for extortion: should have found a better business model

February 24th, 2010 in Uncategorized Comments

Living in Los Angeles, Yelp has been a great tool for me. I have used it constantly over the past few years to discover new restaurants and find great recommendations. But rumors of Yelp’s somewhat shady business practices have started surfacing over the past year.
These rumors have now turned into a class action lawsuit, filed [...]

HTML5 is not about the death of Flash, but the return of browser innovation

February 6th, 2010 in Technology Comments

My previous post on the Flash controversy brought up some interesting comments that I thought warranted further discussion. A number of bloggers have shared their opinions as well. Incidentally, this conversation has been going on for months on the web, the iPad announcement just seems to have reignited it.
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch posted:
We are now [...]