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Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos
Albert Wenger – Aug 3, 2012
Video has proven to be a very powerful way of connecting with people online. I think no site demonstrates this more than Kickstarter. For instance, Allison Weiss raising money to make a new record (one of the very early projects), [...] Read more
German National Computer Science Competition
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2012
Only a short post today as I was spending most of the morning on the phone with some PR folks in Germany talking about the German National Computer Science Competition (page in German). I participated in and was one of [...] Read more
The Internet, Tape Delay, Proxies and Civil Disobedience
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2012
Much has been written about how idiotic it is for the NBC to tape delay Olympic broadcasts when everybody already knows via Twitter what the outcome of an event has been. At the current Olympics we are witnessing like never [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 1)
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2012
In the last two posts we looked at control structures as part of the programming series here on Tech Tuesdays. We saw that loops let us repeat a sequence of instructions, which is one way of having to avoid writing [...] Read more
Cybersecurity (Senate Edition): Support Franken and Wyden Amendments
Albert Wenger – Jul 30, 2012
I have written about cybersecurity legislation, covering the House bill called CISPA. This week it’s the Senate’s turn with the Cyber Security Act of 2012 (PDF). One thing that always jumps out at me when looking at these bills is [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Shapeways Redesign and Brand Identity
Albert Wenger – Jul 27, 2012
It may be a bit of a stretch to call a redesign and new brand identity a feature but bare with me for a minute. Earlier this week Shapeways launched a redesign of the site including a complete overhaul of [...] Read more
Power User Infrastructure
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2012
This past weekend I finally tackled two projects that I had on my to do list for quite a while. Had I known how easy they would turn out to be I would have worked on them much sooner. The [...] Read more
Citizens of the Internet: A Dilemma and Opportunity
Albert Wenger – Jul 25, 2012
I have been spending a lot of hours driving in the last couple of days as we are on a road trip to the kids’ summer camps. Inevitably when driving long distances my mind starts wandering. In particular I have [...] Read more
Some Points re Sparrow
Albert Wenger – Jul 23, 2012
There has been a flurry of posts about Google’s acquisition of Sparrow. As I was reading the posts, I felt that a couple of important points were missed (or at least didn’t jump out at me). Let’s start with the [...] Read more