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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
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