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  1. Why Google Labs Closing Makes Me Nervous

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 23, 2011 / Leave a comment
    While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead. In many cases, this will mean ending Labs experiments—in others we’ll incorporate Labs products and technologies into different product...
  2. A Reading Roadtrip

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 22, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Im coming to you today from the backseat of my dad’s car as we drive to Indianapolis for my cousin’s wedding.  I am taking the opportunity to do something you should consider, catching up on reading.  I am limiting my internet connectivity to the mobile phone (I have already received...
  3. The Future of Cloud as a Service (to my blog readers)

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 21, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Microsoft announced a new version of their cloud, called Project Daytona.  I read this Information Week article on it.  Project Daytona will allow users to deploy Google’s MapReduce software within the cloud to run some serious, statistics-based algorithms on serious amounts of capacity.  I love the idea and I think...
  4. Making Time for Getting Better

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 14, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Do you know the guy who has spent 30 years in his current job, working long hours and rarely taking vacation, but still isn’t very good at it?  Maybe his industry is changing and he’s actually looking at being stuck out of a job and unqualified to get a new...
  5. On the Google+: It’s New, Twittery, Not-to-Twittery, Maybe a Bit Too Much

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    So I’ve moved myself on to the Google+ and I have a thought or two or four: I think there is something interesting to be said about it being NEW and opening nationwide.  Facebook is great, but it’s gotten stale for many people.  I have friends on there that I...
  6. Reminder: The Concept of Apps Has an Expiration Date

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 8, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Yesterday Apple announced that they have had 15 Billion Downloads from their App Store.  My question is, how high do you think that number will ever get?  30 Billion?  40 Billion?  100 Billion?  I would bet $100 that it will never cross 100 Billion, might not even be 30 Billion. ...
  7. Innovation in Incubation

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    I saw an article on Fred Wilson’s blog about Founder Labs.  Founder Labs is, more or less, a traveling incubator program where people sign up as individuals, are paired together and then helped to build the start of a company in 5 weeks.  It seems like a good idea, an...
  8. The 2 Types of Innovation and 5 Types of Companies

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / June 27, 2011 / Leave a comment
    There are essentially two different levels of innovation: Addressing Latent Demand – Most companies are founded on an innovation.  This could be as simple as, “there aught to be a Chinese Food Restaurant on Carson Street” or as complex as, “The internet and mobile device users will latch on to...
  9. LulzSec, Annonymous, Colbert Nation, Green Peace and Al Queda

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / June 24, 2011 / Leave a comment
    For those of you who don’t spend a lot of time reading Tech News… there has been a lot lately on the darker side of brilliant technologists, hackers.  The two largest groups of hackers are LulzSec and Annonymous.  These two groups have been responsible for everything from retaliating against Sony...
  10. Good People, Great People and Startups

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / June 23, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Recently Bill Taylor at the Harvard Business Review wrote an Article entitled, “Great People are Over Rated“.  He jumped on the bit of controversy around the salary of tech engineers these days.  Facebook has been stealing Google employees (at least 89 at the moment), Google has offered hundreds of thousands...
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