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Thinking About Alternatives to SOPA/PIPA
Albert Wenger – Jan 27, 2012
With SOPA and PIPA shelved at least for the moment, it is time to start thinking about alternatives. It would be a shame if we limited our collective thinking here to slightly different versions of those bills instead of exploring [...] Read more
Apple Is Slow Boiling Developers
Albert Wenger – Jan 26, 2012
How do you boil a frog? Slowly. Apparently the same is true for endusers and even software developers. That at least is what Apple seems to believe. And while this has been debunked for frogs (they do jump out as [...] Read more
Supermodularity And Service Bundling
Albert Wenger – Jan 25, 2012
This will be a bit of a wonky and short post with a longer and less technical one to follow some time soon. Google has just announced a coming update to their privacy policy which will essentially make it possible [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: DNS
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2012
Today we are continuing with the web cycle that I outlined two weeks ago. After a URL has been parsed in Step 1, the browser needs to determine the IP address for the domain as Step 2. Reprising the previous [...] Read more
Why Software As A Service (A Personal Reminder)
Albert Wenger – Jan 23, 2012
I am in the process of migrating a bunch of stuff off an ancient server which has been up continuously for 5 years and is being sunset (the hardware is tired and RedHat is ending support for RHEL4). The migration [...] Read more
Some Quick Observations on MegaUpload
Albert Wenger – Jan 20, 2012
Yesterday an international police operation resulted in the shutdown of MegaUpload and the arrest of at least four MegaUpload employees in Auckland, New Zealand. This action resulted in a large scale DDoS attack by the group known as Anonymous on [...] Read more
The Day the Internet Stood Still
Albert Wenger – Jan 19, 2012
Yesterday (Wednesday, January 18), has a good chance as being remembered as the day that the Internet first truly showed its political clout in the US. So far we have largely pointed at events abroad when discussing the Internet’s potential [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Anatomy of a URL
Albert Wenger – Jan 17, 2012
Last week’s overview of “How the Web Works” introduced the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) as the fundamental way things are addressed on the web. Before we pick apart some actual URLs, it is worth looking at the name itself. The [...] Read more
Covestor: Getting the Message Out!
Albert Wenger – Jan 16, 2012
Our portfolio company Covestor today rolled out a tremendous overhaul of their web presence. The goal was to dramatically simplify Covestor’s message to make it easier for that message to spread and to improve conversion. The team has done an [...] Read more