Personal Technology

Amazon Silk: Viewing the Cloud now a Feature of the Cloud

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ October 5, 2011 / Leave a comment

Warning: this is a GEEKY post. Last week Amazon released their Fire tablet and lost in all the discussion about media players, tablet size, movie libraries and the lack of 3G was their new browser, Silk. Silk isn’t really a browser though, it’s two. Essentially, a server on Amazon’s cloud...
It’s Just a Phase

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ October 4, 2011 / Leave a comment

I had an interesting discussion with a couple friends last night and thought I’d pass it on here. First, a little background. The conversation was about the evolution from standard printed newspapers and magazines towards… well, I think we would agree that’s still being worked out. There’s a continuum between...
The Upside to Being Leashed

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ October 1, 2011 / 1 Comment

Between my laptop and my cell phone there’s often little difference in my availability when I’m “on vacation” and when I’m “at the office.” I always respond quickly and I’m usually up early in the morning for a few hours worth of work. This technology is often referred to as...
FourSquare out of the “A” Box Already?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ September 28, 2011 / Leave a comment

I got a new phone a couple of months ago and stopped using FourSquare. Haven’t missed it. The reality is what I have liked about Foursquare has always been about potential. My reason for liking FourSquare has always been about its potential not its current state. There is so much...
Netflix Is Separating for Good Reasons, Just Not Your Reasons

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

Reed Hastings made a big bet a few years ago on streaming video. They setup the streaming site and the infrastructure on Amazon’s cloud then worked through all of the growing pains and figuring out how to charge for it till it was a profitable little business. They’ve since grown...
The Stupidity of Crowds

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 25, 2011 / Leave a comment

I read and thoroughly enjoyed James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, but this morning I also noticed the stupidity of crowds. As I was prepping the screen capture of the detailed reporting about the Steelers NOT feeling the earthquake, I attempted to spell Allegiance for the title. My first guess...
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...
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...