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Inaugurating Change?
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2013
Future of Search (Seeking Input)
Albert Wenger – Jan 18, 2013
Bijan has a good post up today with “Some Thoughts on the Future of Search.” This is a topic on my mind following Facebook’s announcement of Graph Search and my upcoming appearance on Monday at DLD on a panel titled [...] Read more
(Survey) Monkeying Around An IPO
Albert Wenger – Jan 17, 2013
For a moment I thought it was a typo when I saw the headline “Survey Monkey Raises $800 Million in Debt and Equity.” Shouldn’t that be $80 million? No. What’s going on? Survey Monkey essentially just provided a massive private [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Concurrency (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Jan 15, 2013
This will be almost the last Tech Tuesday post in the initial series on programming. The basic premise of this series was that programming is a lot like giving a person instructions for how to do something. As I had [...] Read more
Aaron Swartz
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2013
The Internet changes everything. Aaron Swartz knew and embraced that at an age when most of us think that the biggest problem we are facing is this week’s home work assignment. For the first time in human history we can [...] Read more
Feature Friday: People, Referrals and Usage (Dwolla)
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2013
In marketing a site or service, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. For market places such as Etsy and Shapeways this is easy because they can lead with pictures of some gorgeous products available for sale. But [...] Read more
Washington, We Need a Vision
Albert Wenger – Jan 10, 2013
The latest round of fighting coming out of Washington is disheartening because we all seem to be caught up in discussing the tactics of the trillion dollar coin. All the focus is on a single battle and the objective of [...] Read more
Ziggeo: Simple Video Screening
Albert Wenger – Jan 9, 2013
For many years we used to have Au Pairs to help with our children. The screening process to find a new Au Pair was quite cumbersome and mostly paper based. It was difficult to go through many possible candidates and [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Testing
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2013
Welcome back to Tech Tuesday. We are still in the process of wrapping up the initial series on programming. In the interim review I had identified a couple of high level questions that had not yet been answered dealing with [...] Read more