I’m sure Amazon.com has a rhyme and reason to this, namely that they’re all coming from different warehouses, but receiving 4 separate packages, each with 1 or 2 or 3 or 14 tiny items in it, seems highly inefficient:
The only map that matters anymore, Google Maps: And BetterWorld Books isn’t listed, until you zoom in further, and then it’s listed at a different location (RedPost’s World HQ is inside the bookstore). Weird. I’d imagine there are more Google searches for them then for us…
Here’s a link to M-CAM’s report, “Intellectual Property Analysis of Michael J. Strand Online Networked Signage Patent: US 7,685,259,” that they took on this week as part of their ongoing Patently Obvious™ series: As of April 2010, according to the electronic output of the USPTO’s Public PAIR system reports on patent assignment, Michael J. Strand [...]
M-CAM is readying their Patently Obvious™ report on U.S. patent 7,685,259, to be released in the next day or so (I ranted about it earlier, it’s the patent that’s got a lot of SAAS digital sign vendors scared). In the meantime, here’s an overview of what the Patently Obvious reports are all about: Patently Obvious™: [...]
Ok, so following up on yesterday’s post I’m going to start digging into US Patent 7,685,259, the very obvious software patent for a “Locally responsive kiosk signage from on-line source,” using M-CAM’s Doors software (some of which, coincidentally, I helped write, to pat my own back). The biggest way that these kind of crap patents [...]
There’s all kinds of crazy out there in the world, in all forms. One of those forms is software patents, which are, with few exceptions, dumb. The Amazon one-click patent is a good example of something that’s “patently obvious” to borrow a phrase. In a past life as an intern, I worked at M-CAM, a [...]
Groupon is this web service that sends out daily emails. Rumor has it, they’re the largest email listserv in the city of Chicago. I wouldn’t doubt it. They started here and are now in 45 cities across the country. The concept is, you can buy into sweet deals, if enough people buy, to restaurants, retail [...]
The whole concept of Transit Agencies releasing their traditionally locked-away data is starting to spread all over the country. Check out this article and video about the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority). And remember, the MBTA didn’t pay a dime for this development:
Today we swung by the studio of Doejo, a Chicago-based web-design firm, for a quick introductory chat/rapid-fire brainstorming session. Their office was outfitted by RedPost’s new Chicago landlord, Sharchitecture (check out the sweet woodwork in the photo, photo from Flickr user AndersP). They have an impressive portfolio and were even kind enough as to post [...]
How quickly we forget what it used to be like. Remember 2004? What the world was like pre-Youtube, before politicians had “Youtube moments” and babies went viral? Of course not. We take it for granted now. This was essentially my point in commenting on this Atlantic article entitled “Cable TV is Doomed” over the weekend. [...]
