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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
Money Ball for VC
Albert Wenger – Jan 7, 2013
Money Ball was a good movie (I have to admit to not having read the book) with a crucial theme: statistics beats human intuition in complex situations. With the predictions for the 2012 elections we saw the same theme play [...] Read more
Crypto vs (Real) Identity vs Open Society
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2013
China is going through a crack down on social media and is apparently now requiring verified real identities online. This is very clearly an attempt to silence criticism and suppress unrest by making it easy to track down who said [...] Read more
A Personal Learning Agenda for 2013: AI and Machine Learning
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2013
In my blog posts about employment I have made the point that computers are getting better and better at carrying out tasks that previously required humans. The strongest case in point here are Google’s self driving cars. As recently as [...] Read more
Scuba Certification and the Inverted Classroom
Albert Wenger – Jan 2, 2013
One of our goals for 2012 was to get scuba certified as a family. We took a first run at it in a rushed fashion early in the year but abandoned that effort after a less than pleasant pool dive [...] Read more