Mike's Manic Minute 15 May 06

Video Podcasting. . .from your phone! www.podcastingnews.com reports that YouTube has introduced a service that lets you upload videos directly from your phone or PDA. All you need is a mobile device capable of making video and MMS messages, and an Internet access or data plan from your service provider. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are currently supported.   Patent Trolls beware. . . . Cnet reports today that A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with eBay in an ongoing patent spat, handing down a ruling that could make it harder for some patent holders to force shut-offs of infringing products in the future.   The patent in question was related to eBay's "Buy-It-Now" feature.   In 2001, I worked for a number of patent holding companies reviewing patents for prior art in this exact area.  Over the course of my 36 year career I've seen and been involved with many early-stage efforts and have the combination blessing and curse that I remember all of them!   I say if you want to patent something, good for you, but you'll have much better luck enforcing it if you invent something original!       Podcast of the day. . . Business Jive! URL: http://www.businessjive.com/ RSS: http://www.businessjive.com/xmlpodcast.php   A semi-regular interview show that features executives of startup companies.   As someone very interested in business podcasting, I was delighted to see Business Jive interviewing startup executives and want to encourage anyone who sees how humanizing your business can help build customer confidence and tolerance to call me 206-388-5072 and start your own business podcast!   Manic Minute Recommendation: Do the Biz Jive!   And that's your Manic Minute for May 15th, 2006, brought to you by www.business-podcasting.com . . .