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The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine Learning Services
Albert Wenger – Feb 4, 2013
Part of what makes Google such a formidable company is their access to vast amounts of data combined with top talent in machine learning. For instance, every time someone picks a specific link from a Google results page that action [...] Read more
Thinking About Cyber Defense
Albert Wenger – Feb 1, 2013
Recently Andrew Parker predicted that within 5 years we will have a specialized branch of the military dedicated to defending cyber space (just as we have the army for land, the navy for the seas and the air force for [...] Read more
Achilles Tendon (Help Needed)
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2013
On the good news front, I ended a long week of business travel in Europe with some spectacular skiing with friends in Verbier. On the bad news front, the rental randonnée boots I used resulted in a rather aggravated Achilles [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Concurrency (Atomic Actions)
Albert Wenger – Jan 29, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced the problem of concurrency: multiple programs executing at the same time. I used an example of a naive program for updating a vote count that could lose votes if multiple instances run concurrently. So how [...] Read more
Work versus Capital
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2013
I am still in Europe now for a few days of skiing with some friends. Since I am also trying to get some work done at the same time, posts will continue to be super short. Today’s post is simply [...] Read more
Libel, Slander, Defamation and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Jan 25, 2013
At a dinner at DLD we were discussing the issue of libel and I was surprised to find one participant defending the UK law that allows Lord McAlpine to sue individuals who (re)tweeted an allegation against him. Apparently the amounts [...] Read more
Want a Good Deal? Have a Credible Alternative
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2013
First time entrepreneurs often ask me what they should do to maximize their chances of raising venture capital. To which I invariably answer: “Not need it.” Why? Because raising capital or selling your company is all about having a credible [...] Read more
Privacy and DRM: The SnapChat Case
Albert Wenger – Jan 23, 2013
When I first heard about SnapChat I was immediately reminded of the attempts of a friend of mine to establish a DRM’d email platform that would let recipients read an email but not do anything else with it that hadn’t [...] Read more
Dwolla and Iowa (I Love the Midwest)
Albert Wenger – Jan 22, 2013
Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today (due to my travel schedule). Quite fortunately that creates an opening for a brief post about Dwolla, Iowa and the Midwest more generally. I spent my first year in the US as an exchange student [...] Read more