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The Next Steve Jobs
The other day I wrote a post about how Steve Jobs made Apple a great company by slowly but surely helping people conquer their fears about technology. He made computers usable without knowing how to type on a command line with the mac, made the crazy complicated world of music... -
Keep on Truckin’
Did you know the phrase “Keep on Truckin” dates back to this song, from 1930s and this song? Well, it’s what I’m doing today. Some more thoughts on the next Steve Jobs tomorrow. -
What Made Steve Jobs Rich
Different industrial titans have risen to their throne for different reasons. Henry Ford and IBM figured how to make something that previously had to be built by hand in an efficient, industrial manner. Thomas Edison came up with a completely new invention. Bill Gates created an ecosystem by enabling both... -
Why Would RIM License Blackberry 10?
There have been a few rumors that RIM may be licensing their new operating system to other hardware manufacturers. This is surprising because it would seem to undercut Blackberry’s hardware business. My first reaction to this news was that they are probably considering spinning off the hardware and becoming purely a software company.... -
The Myth of the Virtual Desktop Comes to the Phone
A few years ago I wrote a 40 page whitepaper on Virtual Desktops. I extolled the virtues of what seemed to me to be an obvious decision. You take the hundreds or thousands of desktops in your office and cost $600 per system and replace them with little boxes that... -
Sauerkraut Sunday: The Blackbird Pie Edition
Anyplace other than the Blog of Burgher Jon, Blackbird Pie has absolutely nothing to do with Sauerkraut. However, on this blog, we know that Sauerkraut means bringing tweets to the blog, and that’s exactly what a new piece of software that Twitter recently acquired does. For years I’ve displayed the... -
DropBox’s Nifty Android App
Every now and then a “cool” moment happens that makes me excited to be a technologist. I like to share them here when I can. The other day I went to lunch with my mother and received a Skype message about halfway through from a friend. He was working on... -
Yammer, Twitter, Skype, Sametime and How Enterprises Will Adopt Technology
As I perused my reader this morning I found an interesting note on TechCrunch talking about both the success of Yammer! and mentioning that they’ll be raising another round of financing. For those of you who don’t know about Yammer! it is a set of social media technologies that can... -
Welcome to Facebank
I was scanning through my morning news and came across this interesting little prediction from Gartner (via RWW); Facebook and other social networks will begin to add banking and insurance services. The rest of the article is a snooze fest that mainly revolves around 3 points: Social Media sites need... -
2012: The New Year’s Resolution Post
When I went from part-time blogger to near-daily blogger at the beginning of 2010, I did it with a post about New Year’s resolutions. I kept up the tradition last year, and have finally taken the time (it’s taken a few days to hammer out this year’s posts). When I...
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