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What I Would Do If I Were Microsoft

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 22, 2011 / Leave a comment

Microsoft’s phone sales are tapering off in spite of great reviews. They have a new version coming out, but the software isn’t really the problem, nor is the hardware… its the market position. Apple and Android have established themselves in the personal business space and they have taken advantage of...
The Biggest News of the Day, I Can Almost Get Rid of Cable

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 19, 2011 / Leave a comment

I’ve written here a number of times about television and its future. Essentially I believe that in the long run TV will be asynchronous and that one of the implications there is that there is really no need for the networks… besides sports. I know, I know there are plenty...
Files in the Cloud

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 16, 2011 / 1 Comment

Fred Wilson wrote an interesting blog post last week entitled “There Will Be No Files in the Cloud” . In it, he talks about the way that a service like Dropbox may become obsolete as the cloud gets rid of the need for actual files. Replacing them with Google Docs...
Tomorrow’s News on Android and Motorola

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 15, 2011 / 8 Comments

As someone who follows all of this very closely, I wanted to take a post this morning and make a few points that it will take the media a few days to discover. All of the stories today will talk about how Google believes it can’t compete with Apple unless...
Creator/Consumer Ratio and Innovation

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 10, 2011 / Leave a comment

Fifty years ago, the ratio was a million to one. For every person on the news or on primetime, there were a million viewers. The explosion of magazines brought the ratio to 100,000:1. If you wrote for a major magazine, you were going to impact a lot of people. Most...
The Speed of Innovation: The 30 Year Anniversary of the IBM PC

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 2, 2011 / Leave a comment

This month is the 30 year anniversary of IBM producing its first personal computer, the IBM 5150. It had absolutely no connection to the internet or network and no speakers. It had little built in functionality, requiring the user to develop their own applications in BASIC. It cost upwards of...
Amazon Didn’t Cave and Give Apple 30%

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 26, 2011 / Leave a comment

Remember when Apple announced they were going to be taking 30% of every “in app” sale? I speculated then that it could be a conflict of interest for Apple. To paraphrase myself (more details if you click the link)… it seems counter-intuitive to BOTH create unreasonably high prices for the...
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...
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...
Google+’s Unexpected, Ironic Weakness

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 20, 2011 / Leave a comment

I don’t have much to say today because I was at the baseball game last night and slept well past my normal 5am wakeup time, but I did notice something you might find amusing… how crappy the search is in Google+ Google has a history of being pretty good at...