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  1. Values of Tech Companies (Twitter, AAPL, FourSquare)

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 9, 2010 / Leave a comment
    In the past couple weeks there have been a bunch of stories on the valuations of various technology companies.  Most of them are private companies that are looking at either investments or acquisitions, but there’s also big news on AAPL’s recent gains.  I thought I would do this type of...
  2. Is the iPad the best netbook on the market?

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 6, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I’ve said that I’m not going to buy an iPad.  If I’m going to use a new technology it has to fit one of two categories; it replaces something I use or it is so critical that I will use it in addition to everything else.  I used the figure...
  3. Ecstasy at the Mecca of Geek! A Review of SxSWi

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 3, 2010 / 2 Comments
    NOTE:  I’m very pleased to introduce the first ever guest post (hopefully more to come) on The Blog of Burgher Jon.  The post is written by Matthew Gartland (@mattgartland), a member of Pittsburgh’s Diaspora and a good friend / classmate of yours truly.  Matt is an IT professional, a someday...
  4. Pittsburgh Told Google, Now We Wait

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / April 2, 2010 / 3 Comments
    Last week, myself and others urged Pittsburghers to vote for Pittsburgh to receive Google Fiber coverage before last Friday’s deadline.  How’d we do?  No one will no for sure till Google makes an official announcement, but they did make a post the other day on the official Google Blog with some...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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....
  10. 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...
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