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Re: Coworking (or not coworking) in Pittsburgh

BurgherJon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:44:01 -0000

Mike, I was not aware of it, thanks very much for the comment! I found a facebook page for them, is there a web presence?

Re: Coworking (or not coworking) in Pittsburgh

twitter-1422481 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:19:30 -0000

StartUptown in Uptown is a great coworking space and is home to a couple of AlphaLab alumni (Fooala, CloudFab). It's an artsy, design-oriented space in an up-and-coming neighborhood.

Re: CloudCrowd, LaaS and the Unit of Work

Mark C. — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:53:55 -0000

Thanks for the interesting take, Jonathan. While there are still some challenges in outsourcing highly complex tasks, our built-in credentialing systems and credibility models have significantly lowered the barriers. We're already successfully tackling complex tasks such as editing thesis papers and translating documents.

Even without higher level tasks there is still a huge market for the everyday clerical and administrative work performed in businesses throughout the world. From classifying websites to categorizing photos, there are many high-volume, relatively low-skill projects that companies just can't effectively handle in house.

Re: Saturday Musings: Don’t Make Gay Marriage Legal, Abolish Heterosexual Marriage

Kim — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:07:53 -0000

FINALLY someone else with my point of view and the platform to put it on. Great blog posting!

Re: 500!

Kim — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:01:26 -0000

Congratulations on 500 posts!

Re: Sauerkraut Sunday: The Thanksgiving at Grandma’s Edition

Brett — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:01:57 -0000

It's a small world! I take hip hop classes with Joshua Dziabiak, but didn't know he ran his own company, let alone such a successful one! As a fellow co-founder of my own business, www.hardtofinditems.com, I love reading about other success stories, especially in Pittsburgh.

I don't know Josh that well, but I will say that every encounter I have had with him he is always very cheerful and gracious. It's nice to see such a good guy doing great work in the burgh! Next time I see him I'll definitely have to congratulate him on the great PR!

Re: On Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Magenta — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:31:59 -0000

Hi! I have a question for you. I'm a translator working on translating a book, looking for a quote from HOLIDAYS ON ICE. Amazon and Chapters are out of it. I can't find it anywhere. Could you help me out. Do you still have the book? Could you help me find a sentence in there. Thanks! Please email me your reply please: magentabaribeau at gmail thanks!!

Re: Why we Check In

twitter-17812081 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:18:02 -0000

Actually, I've gotten the best tips on where to go/what to do from FourSquare. I find it more useful than a lot of other travel/recommendation apps because people mostly leave tips that are honest, precise, and to the point, if not humorous.

Re: Foursquare App Ecosystem, Part 2: 3 Apps That Will Win at Foursquare

BurgherJon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:41:55 -0000

Glad you liked it Tim, and thanks for the Twitter follow. Unfortunately, it was only a 2 part post, but I'm always coming back to Foursquare and other Social Networks so look for my posts on Twitter.

Re: Foursquare App Ecosystem, Part 2: 3 Apps That Will Win at Foursquare

twitter-9519542 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:06:18 -0000

Hi Jon,

I like the sequence of foursquare posts.
Here is an example somewhere near idea #2, the scrapbook/analytics app:
http://tagwalk.com/user/BurgherJon

Looking forward to post 3/3, thanks,

Tim

Re: Is YouTube Paying Creators like @EarlyBird?

Ricky Ogima — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:10:46 -0000

Yea interesting future we will have.

Re: The Folks at Twitter Monetizing Specific Accounts

donnawhite — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:09:32 -0000

Love it when someone offers constructive criticism along with a good alternative!

Re: Can You Be In at 6:00 Tomorrow?

Guest — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:29:07 -0000

On the other hand, if you're testing a product at 6:00am for release at 9:00am you have some serious organizational problems in your development process that reach far beyond minor hiccups and the occasional need to be in at 6:00am.

Personally, I'm a much bigger fan of better planning, and leaving product feature decisions to people who actually understand the full scope of the product, instead of pulling massive amounts of resources in at the last minute because of oversights and omissions.

Re: Lack of Organizational Capability = IT Waste

Hesleepswiththefishes — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:51:08 -0000

I disagree. For example, multi-core CPU was a huge innovation. Memory is faster. Storage is faster. Powerful Hardware is much smaller these days than it even was four years ago (think iPad, iPhone). Smaller means less power, which reduces heat (and cooling costs).

I can understand your point, I just disagree with it.

Re: Lack of Organizational Capability = IT Waste

BurgherJon — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:52:49 -0000

I think the greatest innovations in technology were mostly hardware, until the internet. From then on, the innovations that have really made a difference have been software related. If you think about it, we're still using remarkably similar hardware to what we were using in the days of client/server.

Re: Lack of Organizational Capability = IT Waste

Hesleepswiththefishes — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:18:47 -0000

Jon, I take exception to your x-axis above. Mainframe, PC, Client Server, those are primarily hardware technologies. I do not consider Web 1.0 and 2.0 are "Hardware" technologies. Web 2.0 is more of a way to share information through web-based technologies. You can host various Web 2.0 technologies (i.e. AJAX) on just about any hardware device.

I think the concept of the chart is correct, especially around the gap between the green and red lines, I just think the x-axis misrepresents what you are trying to state.

Regards,

Hammer

Re: We’re So Mobile You Can Buy a Desktop Again

BurgherJon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:26:48 -0000

I considered it, same rig would have cost me $2000 more. I am not a Mac hater, they tend to be better products, but not as much better as their cost would seem to imply.

Re: We’re So Mobile You Can Buy a Desktop Again

Mickey — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:22:47 -0000

But, your eyes aren't opened all the way, Jon. You didn't buy a Mac.

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

markmayhew — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:51:14 -0000

two words: log off

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

Souris — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:48:48 -0000

No discount cards at your grocery store?

Re: Facebook vs Google Part II: Is a better internet smarter or more social?

brettsatterfield — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:42:13 -0000

A good analysis of Facebook's Open Graph can be found on www.seomoz.org, a leading SEO provider. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-facebooks-open-graph-wont-replace-google (includes a very good video analysis).

You could argue that they have a lot invested in current SEO practices and wouldn't want to scare their readers/followers, but in the end they are going to want to provide the best research data available for internet marketing.

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

BurgherJon — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:45:23 -0000

Good stuff, thanks for looking in to that.

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

Rob M — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:51:14 -0000

Just checked Fb's policy on account deletions.. they retain your information and everything you've ever posted ( pics, etc ) . Every one of you "friends" links to you will remain, but be attributed to " Anonymous FB user" .

http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=1141 .

So, once you're in their database, you're in. This will be a huge, juicy target for hacksters and criminals. It will be a giant data-ball, and by it's size, there is probably some safety, just too much data, you might slip through..

But it looks like, once in, your in. If their database gets compromised, hopefully deleted account data would be ignored, but would it? There appears to be no way to undo the sharing ... and the vulnerability of being interconnected.

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

larsonallan75 — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:04:42 -0000

i like this site and A group of developers could and should create a truly open graph so that any one ... That's the part that this

Re: The Truly Scary Part About Facebook Open Graph

monastreet — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:01:58 -0000

Facebook has allowed me to get back in touch with old friends (in some cases after 30 years) and make new ones but they are making changes more and more often that is making me think of leaving more and more!