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  1. Protecting Search by Socializing It

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 15, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The way we get information will change.  Instead of primarily navigating your way through Google or another search engine. the internet will be teaming with information that you need.  It’ll all be brought to your fingertips easier and faster than it comes today.  Part of the reason for this will...
  2. Education is a Means not an End

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 14, 2011 / Leave a comment
    There has been quite a debate in IT over the last few days.  It was sparked by the often controversial co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel.  Thiel launced a grant program that funds college students who want to drop out of college to launch entrepreneurial pursuits. ...
  3. Make like Butter, Get on a Roll

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Have you ever noticed that the best indicator of whether you’re going to kick ass today is whether you kicked ass yesterday?  When the alarm goes off and you know you have all your ducks in a row you jump up to meet it.  When the alarm goes off and...
  4. The Most Important Battle Being Waged in Tech – Part 2

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 4, 2011 / 1 Comment
    This is a two part series.  On Thursday I took a close look at, what I believe, is the most important battle being waged in technology today; the fight to control digital payments.  I believe that the company that controls this function will be able to leverage a large tax...
  5. The Most Important Battle Being Waged in Tech – Part 1

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 31, 2011 / 4 Comments
    This is a two part series.  Today I will define the most important battle being waged in tech today.  Tomorrow, I will define the contenders and handicap the fight. The biggest fight in social media was always about who owns identity.  Facebook took an almost insurmountable lead when they announced...
  6. Anticipate Your Feeder Businesses

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 24, 2011 / Leave a comment
    On the airplane on Monday I was catching up on Inc Magazine and spotted a little story about Lifesta.  Essentially what it does is allow people to sell and trade their unused GroupOn coupons.  I thought this was a fantastic idea because I believe there aren’t any shortage of people...
  7. Plan to Follow Most of the Time

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 11, 2011 / 1 Comment
    I have been meaning for quite some time to write a post about the explosion of manifestos and new causes over the last couple years.  I picked today to do this because I found the graphic above (from this Tumblr) and loved it.  It quite accurately explains just how easy...
  8. When will “that moment” occur in the shift from Apple to Android?

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 3, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Since about May 2009, Apple’s market share has been on a downward slope and Androids on an uphill one.  Some metrics even had Android overtaking Apple just before the iPhone was released on Verizon (which may momentarily reverse the trend).  This squable could last quite some time if it continues...
  9. The Modernization of Smartphones

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 26, 2011 / Leave a comment
    It took me almost two days this week to get my phone working properly in Australia.  Voice was easy, simply subbing an Optus (aussie call provider) SIM card for the one from Verizon.  Data was an entirely different animal, which required configuring my phone with a few APNs without the...
  10. Saturday Musings: Daniel Pink, SIMON Baron-Cohen and Secret Agent L

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 5, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Warning: This post is long and related only tangentially to the main themes of this blog; I mainly wrote it to organize my thoughts on some issues I’ve been pondering the last couple weeks.  However, if psychology, social theory, gender differences and self-improvement are interesting to you, you may enjoy...
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