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How many servers do Facebook, Google and Microsoft use? | Print |  E-mail
The Fly Speaks
Sunday, 11 May 2008

the_fly_speaks"Facebook does not disclose the number of servers it operates. But research firm Data Center Knowledge puts the tally at about 10,000. [Facebook is rumoured to be buying 50,000 more servers with a recent debt raising of US$100 million.] ...

 

Forrester Research's [Frank] Gillett estimates that Google, owner of the world's biggest Web search engine, is buying half a million servers each year, while Microsoft's annual consumption is as much as 200,000 servers."

Source: "Facebook: Friends with Money" by Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek, 9 May 2008.
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Social media's deep well | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Friday, 09 May 2008

the_well_logoWhen did social media or online social networking start? Was it a few years ago off the back of MySpace, Facebook and Web 2.0?

 

No. It was thriving in San Francisco and the Bay Area before Mark Zuckerberg, twenty-something CEO and founder of Facebook, was born.

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Business endurance depends mostly on you | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Thursday, 08 May 2008

good_to_great What is the secret of enduring greatness for a company? Jim Collins has an answer.

 

Collins is a prominent writer on business management and author of business books which are among the all time best sellers. He wrote Good to Great and co-authored Built to Last. An excellent overview of Good to Great is the one here by Jim Belshaw. 

 

In his recent article in Fortune magazine, The secret of enduring greatness, Collins revisits his familiar theme of business survival and endurance. His data includes who's in and out of the Fortune 500 list.

 

And this is what he concludes is the secret of enduring greatness for a company: "Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you."

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Six fashion hints for entrepreneurs | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Tuesday, 06 May 2008

lb_thumb Fashion, industrialisation and entrepreneurship are forever linked.

 

Something old. The word "entrepreneur" was made fashionable by someone who grew rich as a cotton factory entrepreneur. The French economic theorist, Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), is credited as the first in continental Europe to write about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He was inspired by Adam Smith.

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Cue > Intellectual property law advice | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Thursday, 01 May 2008
cue_shortThis is the May 2008 issue of Cue, the Dilanchian email newsletter. Cue is a monthly selected list of our Library articles and Lighbulb blog posts on IP and business law. You can freely subscribe to Cue or our full RSS feed, or both.
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What's your intellectual property strategy? | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Wednesday, 30 April 2008

lb_thumb QUESTION: What are the most effective strategies for commercialisation of a company's ideas, products, R&D and intellectual property? 

 

ANSWER: "It is the approach that best suits - and is most closely aligned with - the company's overall corporate strategy and the competitive environment in which the company operates."

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Collaboration for invention | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Wednesday, 30 April 2008

henry_chesbrough A mantra for our business environment emphasising innovation and collaboration could be: "Collaborate to survive and invent."

 

Collaboration is as old as the first invention. Bill Bryson's remarkable book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, tells us in his 29th chapter about teardrop-shaped stone hand-axes.

 

These axes first appeared about a million and a half years ago and are certainly the most common technology for the vast majority of human history. They have come to be known as Acheulean tools.

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Economics before legal solutions | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Monday, 28 April 2008

lb_thumbI have a favourite question in conversations with start-ups and new clients. It is a question which leads to discussions about the client's business or commercial situation. 

 

It's a question designed to shed light on the client's business model, industry economics and facts relevant to providing a better legal solution.

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Ray Charles learned from his mama | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Monday, 28 April 2008

us_dollar_bill_lars_christensen

We all know that owning, controlling and trading in intellectual property (IP) can create wealth. Losing ownership and control, or not trading IP, can lose wealth.

 

Industry case studies bring these truths to life. One for the music industry was in BusinessWeek last week. It reports US census data showing one in four U.S. record stores around in 2002 was gone by 2005, a net loss of 1,900 stores. It points at digital retailer, iTunes, which boasts 6 million songs.

 

Personal case studies make the truths register. We did it in Music Business Entrepreneurship: Eulogy for James Brown. We do it now for Brown's predecessor, and fellow Georgian, Ray Charles (1930-2004).

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Improve your creativity, invention, innovation | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Friday, 18 April 2008

2020_think_big We welcome and make no charge for conversations with new clients about how we might help with their intellectual property. To get you into the groove to call, here are some thoughts on creativity, invention and innovation. We are tracking with Australia's 2020 Summit.

 

All human beings have a creative urge. Mine for some months has been to write about the following four minute home video on YouTube. It's the Fountains of the Bellagio Hotel in Los Vegas. The music is Dawn, Ayeshe's Dance, a piece in the Gayane ballet by Aram Khachaturian. Observe the fountain's interplay with the music and then read on.

 

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Intellectual property is not a thing | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Thursday, 17 April 2008

stone_tool Speaking in workshops and seminars I've often posed a puzzle to wake up the audience. I've asked: "What is the most powerful thing in the cave of a cave man when he skins a freshly killed beast using a stone tool?"

 

Most guess that the most powerful thing must be the stone tool. Few point to the one thing that helps the cave man know where to hunt, what to hunt, how to skin and how to fashion tools to help in all aspects of survival.

 

That most powerful thing is the cave man's brain.

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Consultant or contractor intellectual property | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

ip_roadmapIn disputes between clients and their consultants two questions often arise.

 

They are whether money is outstanding and who owns the intellectual property in completed and delivered work. The short answer for both questions is, it depends... and a lot on what is in writing.

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Website terms of use reduce risk | Print |  E-mail
Library
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

website_first_aidMillions of people each day accept or click "OK" to terms of use on websites and internet facilities. The terms of use regulate legal relationships, particularly contractual dealings between users and site owners.

 

Terms of use are useful because most online intellectual property (IP) and general business law issues can be partially or fully treated or neutralised with comprehensive, customised and site-specific provisions. This is apparent from common law (ie court decisions in Australia and elsewhere), and our day to day practice as specialists in IP, internet law, IT and E-business law.

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Employee or independent contractor? | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Tuesday, 15 April 2008

apples-and-orangesIn the eyes of the law, employees and contractors are as different as apples and oranges. Hence numerous legal issues turn on whether a person is another's employee or, alternatively, an independent contractor.

 

The distinction is critical for ownership and protection of copyright and other intellectual property. It is also vital for legal compliance considerations under workers compensation, superannuation, insurance, taxation and other legislation.

 

A good contract prepared by a competent business lawyer will help remove legal doubts. However, take care. Consider the bias of the person preparing the contract. "Creative lawyering" involves genetic engineering ("GM") to modify the distinction between employee apples and independent contractor oranges. What you see in some contracts is not necessarily what you get.

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Poster advertising legal claims | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Friday, 11 April 2008
cc_some_rights_reservedPoster advertising is a prominent ad trend in the release of 2007 statistics yesterday by the Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia. An inappropriate poster ad was also the cause of bad press for Virgin in 2007.
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Telstra guilty in keywords advertising | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

telstraThe rise in keyword advertising has brought with it opportunity for some and piracy, theft or misleading conduct for others. Telstra yesterday admitted it fell into the later camp in 2005 in its use of keyword advertising.

 

A court case report in today's Australian, indicates that "Telstra announced yesterday that its classifieds division, the Trading Post contravened sections 52 and 53(d) of the Trade Practices Act through its search engine marketing on google.com.au in August 2005."

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Teenage mobile phone use statistics | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

rome_lupa_capitolina What use do 58,480 teenagers aged 12 to 18 make of their mobile phones in 31 countries? A major survey indicates a lot has changed in 18 months. It is immediately relevant to the IP commercialisation strategy of many businesses trading in intellectual property .

 

The teenagers were surveyed in October and November 2007 by Habbo, part of Sulake, an online entertainment and social networking company in Finland. Habbo states that statistical weighting was employed to give all participating countries an equal weight in the global results. Habbo's virtual world website claims 8.6 million unique users on a monthly basis.

 

Gathered below are statistics from the survey released in April 2008. It follows Habbo's first survey in 2006. A lot has changed in 18 months.

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Record domain name sale prices mask a reality | Print |  E-mail
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog)
Sunday, 06 April 2008

free_lunch While a .com.au domain name may be transferred, it cannot be sold given licensing arrangements, for example with IT Melbourne which issues them.

 

The position is different for .com names. Year on year record prices are being achieved for .com names. That's great news for a few, but for millions of others a reminder is needed that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

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