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Protecting Search by Socializing It

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ April 15, 2011 / Leave a comment

The way we get information will change. Instead of primarily navigating your way through Google or another search engine. the internet will be teaming with information that you need. It’ll all be brought to your fingertips easier and faster than it comes today. Part of the reason for this will...
A Couple Lessons From Facebook Open Compute

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ April 8, 2011 / 1 Comment

Facebook yesterday announced that they’re opening up their proprietary server and datacenter design specifications. This is pretty big news because they have spent a lot of time and money developing these technologies. I think this is a really good move (and just one step closer to eliminating the waste involved...
The Most Important Battle Being Waged in Tech – Part 2

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ April 4, 2011 / 1 Comment

This is a two part series. On Thursday I took a close look at, what I believe, is the most important battle being waged in technology today; the fight to control digital payments. I believe that the company that controls this function will be able to leverage a large tax...
The Most Important Battle Being Waged in Tech – Part 1

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 31, 2011 / 4 Comments

This is a two part series. Today I will define the most important battle being waged in tech today. Tomorrow, I will define the contenders and handicap the fight. The biggest fight in social media was always about who owns identity. Facebook took an almost insurmountable lead when they announced...
The Best of the Tech Bubble Meme

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 28, 2011 / 1 Comment

Yesterday the New York Times published a story about the (possible) bubble in technology that’s occurring at the moment. The story itself was just a mainstream version of what has been said by about every blog in the space (including mine), “Hey, there seems to be WAAAAY more investment in...
“Infrastructure as Code” is a Shift in Responsibility (and Sales targets)

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

I don’t usually spend much time talking about enterprise infrastructure (what I do for a day job) on this blog, but I spent part of yesterday getting caught up on my enterprise cloud computing reading, and had an observation I wanted to pass along. Afterall, any internet software company has...
A Couple Interesting Ideas for Social at Work

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 21, 2011 / Leave a comment

As I was reading through my morning news I saw a couple stories that I thought were interesting in how they could change the way we work. Both of these are especially true of smaller companies that are a little more nimble and a little more accepting, from a security...
Social Network and Identity Divergence

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 15, 2011 / 2 Comments

Fact is, one social network will not rule the web… People are simply way too social to allow that. One of my daily reads is @HowardLindzon and the other day he posted the quote above from this Steve Cheney blog post. It seems to me a very valid point. Consider...
Comments on Comments

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 8, 2011 / Leave a comment

There’s been a lot in the news the past few weeks about comments. Yep, those little things down at the bottom of the blog. The news story that started the discussion was megablog TechCrunch’s decision to switch to the Facebook comment platform. Their primary motivation was to combat nasty, aggressive...
When will “that moment” occur in the shift from Apple to Android?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ March 3, 2011 / 3 Comments

Since about May 2009, Apple’s market share has been on a downward slope and Androids on an uphill one. Some metrics even had Android overtaking Apple just before the iPhone was released on Verizon (which may momentarily reverse the trend). This squable could last quite some time if it continues...