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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...
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. ...
Is Google+ Another Wave? Buzz?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 6, 2011 / Leave a comment

The last couple times Google has gotten everybody excited about something that was “social” there hasn’t been much to see. Google Wave came out and never left Beta before being literally given away. Google Buzz created buzz for about a week before virtually completely disappearing. Other more minor releases have...
Google’s Big Blunder?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

I am often critical of what I consider to be a fundamental flaw in Apple’s business. I also often praise Google. Dave Winer is exactly the opposite. He has been extremely critical of Google’s decision to go social and skeptical about their ability to execute on it. I am not...
Talking About Google Communications (not Social yet)

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 29, 2011 / Leave a comment

I’d love to tell you about Google’s new social feature Google+, but I’m not going to for two reasons: I need to play with it first and I don’t have access. None of it means anything till we see how the market reacts. Instead, I think there are two things...
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...
Twitter Photo Sharing – Easy Money

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 1, 2011 / Leave a comment

Twitter is expected to announce their own photo hosting service in the next few days. I have said before that I think moves like this one are dangerous. Twitter benefits from a good development ecosystem and this move will frustrate many developers at TwitPic and other companies that are built...