Tag Archives: Om Malik

No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

In an interesting piece on the problems at MySpace under Murdoch, Om Malik mentions this: Kevin also mentioned that Murdoch, and every large media company, need to think like startups. Good advice – but only to a point. The fact … Continue reading →

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When everyone talks with a megaphone, no one can hear anyone else.

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Image via CrunchBase I’m not sure whether he meant it this way, but Om Malik unwittingly hits the nail very much on the head: “A few weeks ago, I told Jemima Kiss of The Guardian that Twitter was like a … Continue reading →

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