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CMU in the News For a Sweet Board Game

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 11, 2010 / 1 Comment

D&D on the Microsoft Surface from CrunchGear on Vimeo. Congratulations to the Surface Scapes Team at Carnegie Mellon on their mention on TechCrunch today. For those of you unfamiliar with the technology scene, TechCrunch is one of THE technology publications. The CMU team built an absolutely AMAZING version of Dungeons...
Did They Just Put Twitter in my Google?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 10, 2010 / 1 Comment

Just in case you’re reading my blog and neither a Gmail user nor a nerd (for the record, I love my readers who are neither, you’re expanding your own and the Burgh’s horizons), Google implemented Buzz today. You can get the basics from the video above. The big question about...
Sunday Sauerkraut: Fail Whale Edition!

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 7, 2010 / Leave a comment

I had to wait until after the Super Bowl to get this post in. Turns out people like to tweet about Football (and commercials). Anyway, without further adieu, your Sunday Kraut: As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links. I realize that I...
Thoughts on the Ads That Will and Won’t Be in the Super Bowl

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 5, 2010 / Leave a comment

I bet I know what you’re going to be doing on Sunday. It’s Super Sunday and two high-powered offenses with star QBs are going to be playing in the biggest pro football game of the year. You’ll be watching it with a cold beer and your buddies or over fondue...
I’ve Got a Hunch That the Implications Go Beyond Fun

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 1, 2010 / 2 Comments

Note: Hunch (featured in this blog post) is the project of Chris Dixon, who also writes a fantastic blog, that I follow daily. I’ve included a link on the left that allows you to discuss this blog. If you haven’t already tried Hunch, you might start with “What Blog Should...
Sunday Sauerkraut

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 31, 2010 / Leave a comment

As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links. I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review. I’ve...
On HTML 5, Google Docs and Chrome OS

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 29, 2010 / 1 Comment

HTML stands for Hyper-Text Markup Language. Essentially, anything (including this page of this blog) that you view through your browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Chrome) is written in HTML. Currently, HTML is setup to show pages of written text and pictures. Whenever you add videos, music or active integration...
Google Takes on Phones, Part IV – Google Voice is IN THE COMPUTER?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 25, 2010 / 3 Comments

Earlier this month I spent a bit of time profiling Google’s plays in the voice space. It was a three part post: The Apple and the Android – The potential impact to manufactures of the release of an “open” phone operating system (Android). The Carriers and the Google Phone...
Sunday Sauerkraut

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 24, 2010 / Leave a comment

As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links. I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review. I’ve...
On Conan, The Internet and the First Webwork

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 20, 2010 / 3 Comments

For those of you who don’t follow the Bits Blog by Nick Bilton (and others) at the NYT, you should start. Today he made a post that was both interesting and incomplete. He asked, “What if Conan said, “Bye, NBC. Hello, Internet?” It’s a great question. As Bilton points out,...

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CMU in the News For a Sweet Board Game

Did They Just Put Twitter in my Google?

Sunday Sauerkraut: Fail Whale Edition!

Thoughts on the Ads That Will and Won’t Be in the Super Bowl

I’ve Got a Hunch That the Implications Go Beyond Fun

Sunday Sauerkraut

On HTML 5, Google Docs and Chrome OS

Google Takes on Phones, Part IV – Google Voice is IN THE COMPUTER?

Sunday Sauerkraut

On Conan, The Internet and the First Webwork

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