Thursday, October 30, 2008

Interesting complaint against Adsense

In The Big Picture | Google Destroyed Feedburner, a popular blog complains: "Feedburner has become utterly worthless as an advertising platform. October ads threw off under $500, down 75% from the pre-Google days, despite RSS feeds more than doubling over the past 3 months."

Court limits 'business method' patents (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech

A court rules against "business method" patents:

Court limits 'business method' patents (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech

Business method patents have been prolific source of patent production in recent years. Companies and business models are built around them. The early reporting does of the judgement not quite clarify the magnitude of the implications, but this is going to be interesting.