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Tech Tuesday: Programming (Overview)
Albert Wenger – Apr 17, 2012
The purpose of Tech Tuesdays is to provide non-technical employees or founders of startups with background on how technology works so that they can better communicate with engineers and also better understand technological constraints and opportunities. With that in mind [...] Read more
Must Read: Guardian Series on “Battle for the internet”
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2012
I have long been a fan of the UK’s Guardian. They have embraced the internet like no other newspaper publisher. One of my favorite examples of the many great things they have done was the crowdsourced investigation of the expenses [...] Read more
Publishers Have Only Themselves and DRM to Blame
Albert Wenger – Apr 13, 2012
The Department of Justice earlier this week sued several large publishers and Apple over alleged collusion surrounding the agency arrangement for the sale of ebooks. The legal situation here is quite complicated as should be evident from the fact that [...] Read more
CISPA
Albert Wenger – Apr 12, 2012
I wrote a blog post last week about the current Privacy Theater in the US, where the government is simultaneously pushing stricter privacy regulations and huge backdoors that would completely undermine privacy. The backdoors come in the form of the [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on the Instagram Valuation
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2012
Andy Baio provided an excellent perspective on Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram by analyzing the price per active user. This analysis shows that at about $30 per user this deal is far below many previous acquisitions. It also indicates that Yahoo’s [...] Read more
Saving the Oceans from Acidification
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2012
The reason Continuations has not had any new entries for a few days is that we went away on a family trip to the Virgin Islands. We have done a lot of snorkeling with the kids but in preparation for [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: What Next?
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2012
So far on Tech Tuesday we have covered basic computing technology (9 installments) and the web cycle (11 installments). That means its time to check in again and see what to cover next. There are at least three big topic [...] Read more
Privacy Theater
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2012
I wrote recently about how we are at a time during which lots of little decisions will determine whether we find ourselves in an information utopia or dystopia. There is a lot of legislation in the works both here in [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Web Browser (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2012
Today is the wrap up of the initial web cycle. Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced Javascript as determining the behavior of a web page and interacting with HTML (the content of the page) and CSS (the look and feel). Now [...] Read more