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The Vibe: Shapeways + Soundcloud = Awesome
Albert Wenger – Mar 10, 2012
I usually take weekends off from blogging, but this one is just too good to pass up: Shapeways and Soundcloud have teamed up to bring out “the Vibe” an iPhone case which comes with a completely custom waveform as its [...] Read more
A Rational Internet Venture Valuations Bubble
Albert Wenger – Mar 9, 2012
There is no doubt in my mind that venture valuations have become incredibly stretched. I have been thinking about why that is and what will come of it. First off, here are the factors contributing to the stretching of valuations. [...] Read more
Heyzap Releases Self-Documenting API
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2012
Heyzap’s API announcement is technically yesterday’s news, but there is so much to like here that I figured I would write about it today. First, they announced this on their newly launched developer blog. Etsy has had a developer blog [...] Read more
Dispatch from London
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2012
Very short post as I am about to get on a plane to fly back from London to New York (and Virgin Atlantic does not yet have wifi on its flights). Reading the papers in London and talking to people [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: HTML
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2012
Over the next three Tech Tuesdays we will cover the three essential technologies that together make up the bulk of most web sites: HTML, CSS and Javascript. This is Step 7 of the web cycle where the web browser uses [...] Read more
Bringing Time Back to the Web (Or: The Struggle for Depth)
Albert Wenger – Mar 2, 2012
Evan Williams apparently recently said that there is an issue with all of us being stuck in a kind of “continuous present” on the web (ironically, I can’t find that quote right now). I am certainly stuck in that all [...] Read more
Who Is Next After Newspapers?
Albert Wenger – Mar 1, 2012
Yesterday I tweeted out this fascinating chart about what has happened to newspaper advertising revenues: The chart comes from this blog post by a professor named Mark Perry. In the comments to the post there is a brief discussion that [...] Read more
We Need Peer Produced Mobile App Security
Albert Wenger – Feb 29, 2012
First there was the Path address book tempest. Now there is a concern about apps being able to access photos without permission. It would be a shame if this resulted in more centralized control over apps and longer review processes. [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Web Browser (Part 1)
Albert Wenger – Feb 28, 2012
We have now reached step 6 of the web cycle and are back at the web browser. The web browser is receiving an initial HTTP response from the web server. The first part of this response tells the web browser [...] Read more