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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
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2012
This weekend I went to see “The Hunger Games” with our oldest son (12). His twin sister separately saw the movie as part of a friend’s birthday party. For anyone who has been behind a gigantic rock, er, I mean [...] Read more
Offense is the Best Defense for Startups
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2012
Once in a while I find myself in a product or strategy or biz dev discussion at a startup which goes something like: “we are doing xyz to defend against ”. My reaction is to ask whether xyz is also [...] Read more
Choosing Our Information-Based Future: Utopia or Dystopia?
Albert Wenger – Mar 21, 2012
We are at a perilous fork in history where many of the choices that we are making now and in the coming years will determine whether we are headed towards an information-based utopia or dystopia. It is not any single [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Javascript
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2012
The topic of last week’s Tech Tuesday was CSS, which determines the look and feel of the content of a web page (where the content itself is described in HTML). Today we will learn about Javascript, which is a programming [...] Read more