Personal Technology

The ToDo List

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 27, 2011 / Leave a comment

For years I have been very particular about the way I run my ToDo list. It involves a full whiteboard and tracking all of things I need to do for all the projects I’m working on, then each morning moving a few of them over to my daily schedule. Its...
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...
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. ...
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...
How Twitter on iOS5 is Like an Umpire Mistake

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

I’m sitting on the couch on a Sunday afternoon watching our Pirates slug through another close, low scoring game when Andrew McCutchen comes to the plate. With one swing of the bat he seems to have changed the entire dynamic of the game, lifting a ball in to right field...
Three Lessons From Color

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 17, 2011 / Leave a comment

I want to talk about Color for a minute. It seems like just yesterday (actually it was May 23rd) it was the biggest startup news anywhere. Fast forward only 3 weeks and 1 day and TechCrunch is calling them struggling and reporting that they lost their co-founder and president. I...
The Leader of the Pack is Now Android

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 8, 2011 / 7 Comments

When the iPhone came out many pundits didn’t believe it stood a chance. Then it took off and there was a flood of immitators. The goal was to have your phone be as much like an iPhone as possible. Apple was the leader of the pack and all the cool...
When I Have This Kind of Weather on a Holiday…

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 30, 2011 / 2 Comments

…you don’t get much of a blog post. That said, I have had a few miscellaneous thoughts on my mind that I thought might entertain you: LinkedIn’s IPO scares me a little bit. When you compare it to Twitter and Facebook, I think it is the weakest social network… I think that...
You’re Never Really Safe

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 25, 2011 / 1 Comment

Last week I tried to make a post about IT Security and failed (silly poor internet connection in Switzerland). The good news is, I did some more thinking about the subject and got a chance to talk it through with a couple colleagues and I have some more thorough conclusions...