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  1. I Topeka’ed April Fools

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 1, 2010 / 1 Comment
    Google announced this morning April 1, 2010 that they have renamed themselves Topeka.  Completing the swap that began when Topeka, Kansas renamed themselves Google, Kansas in an effort to become the first city granted Google’s ultra-high speed broadband (something Pittsburgh applied for as well).  I don’t think its as good...
  2. Television will be Asynchronous: Part 1- How We’re Getting There

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 29, 2010 / 3 Comments
    This will be a two part post.  Today I am going to explore what synchronous and asynchronous television means and then describe why and how synchronous television is falling out of favor.  Tomorrow I’ll be discussing what I think the implications of fully asynchronous TV might be.  If this is...
  3. Texting is to 5 Years Ago as ______ is to Today

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 22, 2010 / 1 Comment
    I was walking threw town on Saturday with a colleague and both of us recalled trips to Europe in the 2002-2003 time frame.  Both of us being technologists, we noticed an obvious trend; texting.  Both of us had the same reaction, “who would ever want to text?  Typing short form...
  4. Laws in London: Protectionism and Journalism

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 15, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I arrived in London this morning and found a couple things worth writing.  One effects me quite personally and the other not at all, but in both cases I think we can learn a thing or two to apply to the USA: I was detained for 3 hours for various...
  5. Google’s Eating the Enterprise Elephant

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 5, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I saw something in the news from Google today that isn’t getting as much press as it deserves.  I think there are two reasons this news is being overlooked.  First, it’s an enterprise IT announcement and most Google fans focus exclusively on personal computing innovations out of the software giant....
  6. Why the Technology Gap Matters to YOU

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / March 1, 2010 / 10 Comments
    <soap box> I am pulling out my soap box to address one of the public policies related to technology, the gap between the computer literate, the not-so-much and the not-at-all.  I’m addressing it right now for two reasons.  First, there have been a number of stories in the news that...
  7. Two Free In-Stream Advertising Startup Ideas – Part 2: The News

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 26, 2010 / 1 Comment
    Over the next three days I am going to present two fantastic startup ideas.  In yesterday’s post, I profiled the competition (in this case, the in-stream advertising company Ad.ly) and provided a brief introduction to “in stream” marketing.  Today and Tomorrow I will present one of Ad.ly’s shortcomings and the...
  8. Two Free In-Stream Advertising Startup Ideas – Part 1: The Competition

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 25, 2010 / 4 Comments
    Over the next three days I am going to present two fantastic startup ideas.  In today’s post I will profile the competition (in this case, the in-stream advertising company Ad.ly).  Both Tomorrow and Saturday I will present one of Ad.ly’s shortcomings and the way I would attack it. There has...
  9. Sunday Sauerkraut with Kielbasa

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 21, 2010 / Leave a comment
    While I use sauerkraut as a way to describe my Sunday hodge-podge posts, I don’t actually like to eat the stuff.  I do however, LOVE to eat kielbasa.  In fact, I just had some great kielbasa yesterday, over Mrs. T’s Pirogies.  Anyways, on to the good stuff. As I go through...
  10. Twitter Buzzed, How to Respond

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    As virtually everyone’s aware at this point, Google came out with a half-twitter, half-facebook, half-foursquare product last week named Buzz.  While Buzz wears many faces, the main company that it attacks is Twitter.  By most accounts, Buzz is not on the path to success.  However, Google will try again and...
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